Senators Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Patty Murray, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act, legislation to permanently prohibit offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf of California…
Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) held the 13th Bidding Round for exploratory blocks yesterday (7 October) that almost mirrored Mexico’s Round One, in that the ANP was only able to sell 37 out of the 266 blocks offered. Brazil's 13th round…
McDermott International has been awarded a brownfield project by Qatar Petroleum for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of four wellhead jackets. Installation of two jackets in the Bul-Hanine field offshore…
AIMS Global Consulting, part of the Whiterock Group, has appointed KR Solutions (KRS), Norway, to represent them in Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). KRS is based in Stavanger and is headed by Kjell Roverud who has many years’ experience in the oil and gas service sector…
Statoil has awarded contracts for two Johan Sverdrup jackets to Kvaerner Verdal and Dragados Offshore. The contract awarded to Kvaerner Verdal has a value of approximately US$122.8 million (NOK 1 billion) and covers engineering, fabrication…
Less than a month after oil services giant Schlumberger dropped its merger deal with Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC), the Russian company announced that it received another potential merger offer that could send Eurasia to the private sector. Image…
Due to continued challenging market conditions, Athens, Greece-based rig provider Ocean Rig announced that if no future work is found for two of its fifth generation ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rigs – the Eirik Raude and Leiv Eiriksson – they could be scrapped…
The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway granted an extension to Eni for use of the Flotel Superior accommodation facility at the Goliat field, in the Barents Sea. Image from Eni. The…
In 2016, Bruce Clement will step down from his position as managing director and CEO of AWE Ltd., after five and a half years of being in the role. Image of Clement. From AWE. According to AWE…
MacGregor entered into an agreement with Guangzhou Shunhai Shipyard to deliver anchor handling winch packages for five 48m anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels. Each will have a 75-tonne bollard pull and one 40m AHTS vessel with a 70-tonne bollard pull…
Statoil reported that oil had been observed near the OLS B loading bouy at the Statfjord filed, offshore Norway, in the early morning hours of 8 October. Production at Statfjord A is said to be operating normally. Statfjord field…
Aqualis Offshore opens an office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur office will offer the group’s full range of services with support from other group offices. However, its initial focus will be on transportation and installation…
The Norwegian government has said it expects oil and gas investments to fall nearly 21% by 2017, from a record high last year, in its 2016 budget, budget outlined 7 October. With prices expected to remain low in the short-term, the pain is set to continue for the country…
Spanish yard Dragados Offshore and Norway’s Kvaerner Verdal have won the latest construction contracts on the Johan Sverdrup mega-project. Statoil, operator on the multi-million dollar development, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…
Claxton developed an extension module for its suspended well abandonment tool (SWAT), enabling Claxton and Acteon sister company, Offshore Installation Services Ltd. (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. The existing…
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