A North Sea oil worker has died after falling from Taqa Bratani's Harding platform in the early hours of this morning. The worker was involved in maintenance activity on the platform. He was recovered from the sea by a support vessel…
A striking comment was made by the head of CNR International at a breakfast briefing in Aberdeen this week. James Edens, VP and Managing Director at CNR International (UK), said UK North Sea production in 2013 was 1.43MM boe/d—the lowest it had been since 1977…
Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has signed two contracts, worth US$540 million each, to build two drillships for a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd (Transocean). The contracts include options for three additional units for the same company…
Falklands explorer Rockhopper Exploration has appointed Stewart MacDonald Chief Financial Officer, with effect from 10 March 2014. Prior to joining the Company, Stewart, who is 33, was a director in Rothschild's global oil and gas group…
Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary PPL Shipyard has signed a turnkey jackup rig contract worth US$214.3 million with Marco Polo Drilling Pte. Ltd., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Marco Polo Marine Ltd., as well as the grant of an option…
Alewijnse Marine Systems won a service and maintenance contract for M3nergy’s 94,000 DWT FPSO Perintis, three weeks before it officially announces the setting up of two new Asian hubs, in Malaysia and Singapore. Under the agreement Alewijnse…
Singapore-based KrisEnergy Ltd. has added an operatorship offshore Indonesia, and also announced it will not acquire the G3/48 exploration licence in the Gulf of Thailand. KrisEnergy announced in January that it had been seeking a 60%…
Endeavour International Corp announced that the valve in the Rochelle field that had been stuck in the 'shut' position is now open, and production is expected to re-start in the next few days. Following the tie-in of the East Rochelle E2 well…
OMV Norge AS and Rock Solid Images (RSI) have entered into an initial one-year R&D/service agreement to work on the integration of geophysics, rock physics and geology to provide improved quantitative interpretation in exploration. The project…
Mexican drilling contractor Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro will soon deliver its fourth newbuild jackup to Pemex. The Decus was named last week at Sembcorp Marine's PPL Shipyard and will sail from Singapore next week for a 3+ year charter with Pemex…
Petrobras Colombia Ltd. will drill the Orca prospect in the Tayrona-1 (Tayrona Occidental) block off Colombia's Caribbean coast in 2Q 2014. The company will move a rig from Brazil to spud the Orca-1 exploration well in water about 600m deep off the Guajira peninsula…
New interim Director General of Pemex Exploration and Production (PEP), Gustavo Hernandez-Garcia, will be the keynote speaker at the 20th annual Petroleum Exhibition & Conference of Mexico (PECOM). Hernandez-Garcia will speak on Wednesday…
Oceaneering International Inc. announced that Eric A. Silva (pictured) has joined Oceaneering as vice president and chief information officer. Silva’s career spans over 30 years, with more than 10 years of information technology services leadership experience…
The project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents Sea has been joined by a further 16 companies. In total, 33 companies are now part of the project, which will secure good data quality and low acquisition costs. A…
ABB has signed its most extensive contract in the UK North Sea to support Nexen’s Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) on-board its Buzzard platform - the largest oil producing asset in the UK Continental Shelf. ABB UK has signed…
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