ConocoPhillips is dropping out of the Coronado prospect located in Walker Ridge Block 52 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The company was in a joint venture with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. as the operator with, Chevron Corp. and Venari Resources LLC…
Apache North Sea Ltd. awarded STATS Group a contract to safely isolate the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea. The contract is for subsea isolation valves (SSIV) and piping spools to be safely installed and leak tested. This…
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, includes modular carousels in its equipment portfolio to deliver faster mobilisations, for broader product diameters and longer product lengths. With the modular carousel…
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) is making its entrance into Thailand after receiving a US$7 million letter of intent for 3D EM data acquisition in Thailand and Myanmar. The survey will be done using the vessel BOA Thalassa and…
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas has acquired two previously shot 2D seismic surveys totaling 2922 line km on its Sharon Block 2213 A&B in the Walvis Basin, offshore Namibia. Eco Atlantic is also the operator of its Cooper Block, where, in partnership with Tullow Kudu…
Searcher Seismic, in cooperation with BGP, is to carry out a multi-client campaign consisting of three separate surveys totalling 12,500km of 2D data and 566sq km of 3D data offshore Australia. The BGP Explorer has been contracted to…
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has been selected by Saipem to supply the riser integrity monitoring systems for Total's Egina development located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. The Egina field, discovered in 2003…
A consortium of nine organizations including Bluewater Energy Services, Damen Shipyards Group, Van Oord and the Dutch Tidal Testing Centre have partnered to deploy a trial floating tidal energy platform in the Wadden Sea. It will mark…
The latest EIC Monitor report paints a mixed picture of activity across the global upstream sectors in 3Q 2014, with a large decline in upstream activity. The global oil and gas industry has followed a gentle downward trajectory of project…
Gall Thomson launched a range of underbuoy breakaway couplings (UBCs) designed to protect single point mooring (SPM) terminals from the potential consequences of vessel collision or extreme weather events. The UBC is designed to activate…
The 3Q 2014 Oil & Gas UK Business Sentiment Index published on 30 October shows that optimism in the sector continues to decline with a drop from two points above zero on the -50 to +50 index to seven points below zero. Published quarterly…
Italy's Eni signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mexico's Pemex that will see the two companies cooperating and exchanging best practices in all three sectors of the oil and gas industry. The preliminary agreement covers the exchange of knowledge in relation to technology…
Total E&P UK Ltd. and Dong Energy are moving forward on a joint development of West of Shetland fields Glenlivet and Edradour. The joint development will tie-in to the Laggan and Tormore infrastructures where Total expects to add reserves of more than 65MMboe…
InterMoor completed the decommissioning of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s Red Hawk spar in the Gulf of Mexico. Red Hawk spar being towed to reefing site. From InterMoor. According to InterMoor…
Shell will formally cease oil and gas production from the Brent Alpha and Brent Bravo platforms in the UK North Sea on 1 November 2014. Brent Alpha and Brent Bravo are located 186km (115 miles) east of Lerwick. Both platforms have significantly…
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