The fifth SPE Russian Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow hit a record attendance on its first day with 1,775 unique attendees, marking a 19% increase on the previous event in 2012…
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. awarded Heerema Hartlepool Ltd. a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Culzean development’s well head platform (WHP) jacket. Maersk’s proposed Culzean development…
Saipem awarded BMT Group Ltd. a contract to supply the riser integrity monitoring systems for the Lula Norte and Lula Extremo Sul developments in the Santos Basin pre-salt region, off Brazil. BMT’s subsidiary, BMT Scientific Marine Services…
ROVOP is investing more than US$ 6.3 million (£4million) in a new purpose-built headquarters that will include training facilities, a full ROV underwater test facility and an internal 40-tonne overhead crane. The facility is located in the Aberdeenshire’s Westhill area…
Expro obtained a US$50 million contract to supply a high rate well testing package and ancillary services for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project, off Australia. Upon the terms of agreement, Expro will provide well testing, large bore subsea landing string…
Statoil's CEO has resigned in order to take over UK-based BG Group as CEO on a US$2.4 million (£1.5 million) annual basic salary, plus benefits. Image: Helge Lund. From BG Group. Helge Lund has been Statoil's CEO since 2004…
After two and a half years, Santos Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) fed natural gas into its 420km gas transmission pipeline for the first time using its primary compressor station in the Fairview field in southwest Queensland. Santos…
SBM Offshore is using the TrustLube automatic lubrication system for Shell’s Prelude. According to TrustLube, its system consists of an explosion-proof grease cabinet to lubricate the radial wheel, axial boogie and axial boogie guiding of the world’s largest turret…
DNV GL established a liquefied natural gas (LNG) solution group in North America. Bjørn-Harald Bangstein, DNV GL director of operations maritime advisory, Americas. DNV GL says that in addition to deep LNG expertise…
Chevron Thailand E&P Ltd. awarded Rolls Wood Group (RWG) a contract to service Rolls-Royce industrial gas generators operating at four separate offshore production facilities located in the Pattani Basin, 120 mi. from Thailand’s southern coastline…
India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas (ONCG) awarded Aban Offshore Ltd. a US$91.33 million contract for the deployment of its jackup rig, Aban IV. The contract is for three years and is expected to begin 1Q 2015.
Watch as Teekay Corp.’s largest project, the FPSO Petrojarl Knarr, sails away from South Korea to Norway. It took three Fairmount Marine tugs 61 days to tow the FPSO off Norway where it is deployed in the Knarr oil and gas field…
Deepwater exploration offers one of the few attractive places for today's international oil companies, but costs will need to be curbed to make it work, senior executives said in Aberdeen today (14 October). Total's…
Italian explorer Eni picked up two new exploration assets offshore Vietnam from state-owned oil company PetroVietnam, the company announced on 13 October 2014. Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi (pictured) and PetroVietnam president DO Van Hau…
Lundin Norway has found gas and oil in wildcat well 7220-11-1 on the Alta prospect in production license 609 in the Barents Sea. The well was drilled about 20km northeast of the Gohta oil and gas discovery 7120/1-3 and about 190km northwest of Hammerfest…
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