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Apache puts focus on drilling

Dec 08, 2015

Apache is to increase investment in drilling to 78% of its annual capital spending in 2016-2020, compared to 51% in 2012-2015, a business breakfast was told in Aberdeen this morning.  Investment in seismic will double, from 5% of its capital spending to 10%…

Woodside withdraws Oil Search offer

Dec 08, 2015

Woodside Petroleum informed Papua New Guinea-focused Oil Search that it has withdrawn its proposal to merge the businesses. Woodside CEO Peter Coleman. Image from Woodside. This follows the Australian explorer’s US$8…

NorSea inks Wild Well deal

Dec 08, 2015

NorSea Group (UK) has won a five-year contract with Wild Well Control for the storage of its emergency response WellCONTAINED System at NorSea Group’s facilities in South Base, Montrose.   The WellCONTAINED system of services includes…

Atlantis, JDR focus on subsea cables

Dec 08, 2015

Tidal power firm Atlantis has entered into a five-year collaboration agreement with JDR Cable Systems to develop solutions for storage, installation, monitoring, connection, termination and testing of offshore subsea cables, as well as advancing the engineering design of the cables…

Wood Group wins Timor-Leste gig

Dec 08, 2015

Wood Group has won a new, multi-year contract with ConocoPhillips in Australia for brownfield engineering services to the Bayu-Undan field, in the Timor Sea, south west of Timor-Leste, and the Darwin liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Wickham Point…

eDrilling launches simulator

Dec 08, 2015

Norway-based eDrilling launched a simulator for drilling and well engineering and training of all engineering disciplines, to help the industry with efficient and safe well delivery.  WellSim Interact represents the ultimate training/engineering…

Tracerco wins Mariner work

Dec 07, 2015

Tracerco landed a contract to provide smart tracer technology for flow measurement of six new wells in Statoil’s Maureen reservoir of the Mariner field in the UK North Sea. Ilustration from Statoil…

Subsea 7 inks Centrica decom work

Dec 07, 2015

Subsea 7 will provide decommissioning services for the second phase of Centrica’s Rose and Stamford gas field decommissioning programs, located in the southern North Sea. Photo of the Seven Atlantic DSV…

OSD develops new RLWI / IMR vessels

Dec 07, 2015

OSD-IMT, the UK division of Netherlands-based Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), is designing two 120m IMT9120 riserless light well intervention / IMR vessels for Austin Offshore, the shipping arm of Upstream Drilling, Singapore. The…

Maersk Guardian heads to Denmark

Dec 07, 2015

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract with Maersk Oil for the jackup rig Maersk Guardian for accommodation on various fields in the Danish part of the North Sea. The firm contract duration is five years with commencement in September 2016…

COSLInnovator wins Troll gig

Dec 07, 2015

Statoil Petroleum has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) of Norway to use the COSLInnovator mobile drilling facility for drilling, completion, intervention, workover and well plugging on the Troll field. COSLInnovator…

PDi secures Chevron Agbami Phase 3 work

Dec 07, 2015

Project Development International (PDi), a provider of multi-discipline engineering, project management and project services to the international energy industry, has secured a $2.25 million (£1.5million) contract with Nigerian oil service company Marine Platforms Limited (MPL)…

TAM International names Davis global technical director

Dec 07, 2015

TAM International has appointed Tim Davis global technical director for TAM, overseeing global technical support for operations, training, product line management, and marketing.   Image: Tim Davis…

Northern Explorer to leave Gigante survey

Dec 07, 2015

SeaBird Exploration has announced that Northern Explorer has been commissioned for work in the greater Caribbean area and will leave the TGS Gigante survey in the beginning of January 2016 for an estimated 6-8 weeks. Phase one of the survey…

SPT Offshore gets LOI for Ophir wellhead platform

Dec 07, 2015

SPT Offshore has received the letter of intent (LOI) for the detailed design of the suction pile foundation, design supervision of the jacket and full transportation and installation of the Ophir wellhead platform from Muhibbah Engineering…

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