Houston-based Seahorse Platform Partners Ltd. Granted UK-based Sembmarine SLP Ltd., a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, an exclusive license to use its SeaHarvester and SeaHorse technology in the design and construction of minimum facilities platforms in the UK’s territorial waters…
Engineering company Alderley FZE, part of the Alderley Group, opened a new office building in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, as part of its facilities and production expansion. The 1300sq m, two-story office building includes dedicated training facilities…
Oilfield services company Expro opened a new well intervention facility in Aberdeen. The facility will house approximately 200 employees. Combined with renovations planned for the Bruce building, the Carnegie and Young facilities in Dyce represent a US$7…
Aberdeen-based independent Ithaca Energy moved to acquire fellow UK explorer Valiant Petroleum for US$309 million in early March. Ithaca says the movewould establish itself as a leading mid-size North Sea oil and gas operator with 2P reserves of approximately 74MMboe…
Ivanhoe Energy and SBM Offshore formed a global strategic alliance to create floating, production, upgrading, storage and offloading vessels (FPUSO). The design, the companies say, will economically produce and upgrade heavy oil from…
Houston-based Black Elk Energy and Oilfield Helping Hands organized a fundraiser for six families affected by the accident at the company’s West Delta 32 platform last November. The sporting event, held in Maurice, Louisiana, raised US $130…
Innovation in the offshore industry was one of the key themes at this year’s 27th Offshore Achievement Awards. The event, supported by Offshore Engineer and held at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre, was successfully re-launched…
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and partner BP, have discovered gas and condensate in the KG D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari field off the eastern coast of India. The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1024 m, and a total depth of 4509 m…
Grethe Moen has been appointed as president and CEO of Norwegian government-owned company Petoro. Moen has been vice president of mature fields in Petoro and before that she held a number of managerial positions in Statoil and Shell…
Noble Corporation has ordered a new harsh-environment jack-up rig it is to deploy in the North Sea from 2015. The new unit, based on the Gusto MSC CJ70 design and meeting an enhanced version of Norwegian oil firm Statoil's 'Cat J' specifications…
Statoil, together with partners in the Grane Unit, has made a new oil discovery in the vicinity of the Grane field in the North Sea. Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations in exploration well 25/11-27 in the Grane Unit…
Drilling and engineering contractor KCA Deutag has picked up three drilling operation and maintenance contracts for work in the North Sea with operators Total E&P UK, EnQuest and CNR International (CNRI). The contracts with Total E&P…
Noble Energy is to start drilling on Aphrodite 2 offshore Cyprus in the next two weeks, according to partners on the project. Delek Group, whose subsidiaries Delek Drilling and Avner are partners on Aphrodite in Block 12, said the work…
Houston-based National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is to pay $2.5 billion for Robbins & Myers – a supplier of well-drilling equipment parts, including valve controls and grinders – adding three more businesses to its NOV Mono division: Moyno Inc…
US-based Bluefin Robotic successfully tested its unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in deepwater conditions, the company announced last month. Bluefin tested the UUV off Massachusetts with the Scarlett Isabella vessel…
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