Sulzer Pumps will supply 42 pumps for installation on two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels (P-66 and P-69) that will operate in the pre salt Iracema cluster areas located in the Santos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro…
Lundin Norway AS has plugged and abandoned well 16/4-7, northeast of the Sleipner Øst field in the central North Sea off Norway, after it was found to be dry. The objective of the well, in 91m deep water, was to prove petroleum in Jurassic…
Halliburton opened the expansion of its Malaysia Manufacturing and Technology Center in Senai, Malaysia, on August 17, 2013. The additional capability will allow the company to expand its delivery of high-quality products to meet the growing…
Australia's Woodside Petroleum announced that it will recommend using Shell's floating LNG (FLNG) technology to develop and commercialize the Browse gas fields. Selecting FLNG as the development concept requires the approval from the…
Petrobras published the drilling results for extension well 3-SES-175D (3-BRSA-1180-D-SES), known as Muriú 1, located in the BM-SEAL-10 concession area (blocks SEAL-M-347 and SEAL-M-424) in the ultra deep waters of the Sergipe Basin. The…
Keppel FELS Ltd. was awarded a contract worth about US $280 million by Floatel International Ltd. to build its fifth accommodation semisubmersible for delivery in 4Q 2015. Keppel FELS previously delivered the accommodation semis, Floatel Superior and Floatel Reliance…
ABB has won an order to provide integrated solutions that include the electrical propulsion system, Azipod® CZ and automation system onboard two offshore accommodation vessels. The 1+1 ccommodation vessels will be built by COSCO (Nantong) ShipyardCo…
Vince Cable, MP, secretary of state for business, innovation and skills (BIS) is to speak at SPE Offshore Europe 2013 at one of the conference’s keynote sessions. The session, The technology imperative – collaborating today to realise the next 50 years of North Sea potential…
Austrian energy group OMV is to buy Norwegian and UK North Sea assets from Norway’s Statoil in a US$2.65billion deal. The deal will see OMV acquire 19% interest in the producing Gullfaks field and 24% in the Gudrun field, both oil and gas fields offshore the Norwegian Continental Shelf…
Dutch international coating contractor Venko, which specialises in fabric maintenance, has set up its first UK base in the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft (New Anglia) Enterprise Zone. The company was attracted by the incentives offered…
Total E&P UK has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for the recovery of casing at the Tomintoul location, west of the Shetland Islands. The scope of the work involves the cutting and recovery of 472m of 20in. downhole casing from the seabed…
The Kanowit FLNG facility is under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Okpo, South Korea, where first steel was cut in June. Petronas Floating LNG 1 (Labuan) Ltd. signed a US$771million contract for engineering…
Total encountered gas and condensate at its Diaman-1B well offshore Gabon, partner Cobalt International Energy announced. The well, located in the Diaba block, was drilled to 5585m total depth, finding 50-55m of net hydrocarbons in the pre-salt formations…
Senergy was awarded a framework agreement by Statoil ASA to provide geotechnical representatives for site investigation work. The agreement, which has been secured through Senergy’s survey and geo-engineering division, is for projects on the Norwegian continental shelf…
KrisEnergy Ltd., an independent upstream oil and gas company, agreed the final investment decision for the Nong Yao oil development in the G11/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand, along with Mubadala Petroleum. First oil is anticipated in 1H 2015…
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