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Ramboll wins Caspian FEED

Jan 27, 2014

Russia’s Lukoil has commissioned Ramboll to perform pre-front end engineering and design (FEED) studies for the Yuri S. Kuvykin field in the Russian sector of the north Caspian Sea. Ramboll’s work will focus on a drilling complex and topside living quarters…

Wind researchers collaborate

Jan 27, 2014

The UK's National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SP). The MoU see the two parties agree to further collaborative R&D activities and to establish a formalized strategic partnership…

Bualuang repairs delayed

Jan 27, 2014

Bad weather has slowed work to replace riser sections damaged when an FPSO came off station.  The Rubicon Vantage FPSO drifted into an exclusion zone designed to protect the Bualuang oil field production infrastructure in the Gulf of Thailand in bad weather…

Pemex, Lukoil sign cooperation agreement

Jan 25, 2014

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Emilio Lozoya, General Director of Mexico’s Pemex, signed a cooperation agreement today at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The document was signed in the presence of Enrique Peña Nieto…

UTEC Geomarine conducts technical survey

Jan 24, 2014

UTEC Geomarine’s geoREACT suction anchor tooling skid performs a geotechnical investigation. Watch the video to see the system at work, and find the full article where UTEC’s Jim Edmunds explains how the company’s geoROV tool can assist…

BPZ Energy strikes anew at Albacora

Jan 24, 2014

BPZ Energy announced positive year-end results from Block Z1, off Peru. The company said that it boosted Block Z1's current gross production levels in excess of 4,900 bo/d, and that several more development wells are planned to be drilled in the area…

Pemex to export Olmeca crude to Europe

Jan 24, 2014

Mexican state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos says it will not begin exporting high-quality Olmeca crude to Europe until the second half of February. Pemex said on 6 Jan, that exports of the extra-light Olmeca would begin in January…

Petrobras to drill Libra 2H 2014

Jan 24, 2014

Drilling operations will begin in 2H 2014 on two wells in the giant Libra field off Brazil following approval of the field’s 2014 working and investment plan. The Brazilian national Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), along with Pré-Sal Petróleo S…

Rowan adds IFS software to UDW drillship

Jan 24, 2014

Rowan Companies plc, a global offshore contract driller, is now live with IFS Applications on the first of its ultra-deepwater drillships, Rowan Renaissance.  Rowan’s deployment includes requisitioning, inventory, and EAM functionality…

Cuba: CFR delegation discusses drilling

Jan 24, 2014

Multilateral meetings between Cuba and the US are becoming more frequent, although they often fly under the radar. Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Relations, CubaMinRex, recently hosted a delegation from the US-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)…

JDR wins FMC umbilicals supply

Jan 24, 2014

FMC Technologies awarded JDR a contract to design and supply umbilicals and reelers for an intervention workover control system (IWOCS) for Total's giant Egina field development, West Africa. JDR will provide 20km of JDR IWOCs umbilicals…

Pocket OSV takes next step

Jan 24, 2014

A UK-based marine renewables consultancy has signed a memorandum of understanding with a German firm to finance and built a new construction vessel, the Hi Flo 4. Mojo Maritime, based in Falmouth, signed the MOU with Hammonia Reederei GmbH & Co…

FMC wins Pemex contract for wellheads

Jan 24, 2014

FMC Technologies Inc.  announced today that it signed a 3-year contract with Pemex Exploration and Production to manufacture and supply surface wellheads to support drilling and well maintenance programs in the Gulf of Mexico. The award…

Iran woos western oil co's

Jan 24, 2014

Tehran’s leadership has promised a new, attractive investment model for oil contracts by September, to woo Western business back into Iran. The pledge was made at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday.  According to the Financial Times…

Ramform Atlas named in Japan

Jan 24, 2014

Petroleum Geophysical Services ASA (PGS) has launched its second Ramform Titan class vessel, the Ramform Atlas, at a naming ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan today. The vessel will typically tow a network of several hundred thousand recording sensors over an area greater than 12sq km…

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