Photographer Jan Berghuis has caught these stunning images of the moment Heerema Marine Contractor's Thialf heavy lift vessel lifted into place a new, 10,000-tonne module for Talisman Sinopec Energy UK's new Montrose platform in the UK North Sea…
Prosafe’s Safe Boreas harsh environment accommodation vessel has commenced an eight-month contract with Talisman Sinopec Energy in the North Sea. The US$60 million contract comes with options. The Safe Boreas commenced operations…
Shell made a “major discovery” at its Kaikias well that could possibly surpass 100 MMboe, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Map of the Mars-Ursa basin. From Shell. Kaikias is located about 60mi south of Louisiana…
Oceaneering International appointed Steve Barrett as senior vice president, Subsea Products, with worldwide responsibility for Oceaneering’s subsea products segment. Barrett started his career in the oil and gas industry in 1980. In 1982…
Royal IHC named and launched the Sapura Jade pipelaying vessel in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. Image from Royal IHC. The naming…
Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) awarded the McDermott International and GE Oil & Gas consortium a SURF contract to provide subsea equipment for the early production system (EPS) on the Atlanta field, offshore Brazil. Map from QGEP…
Lundin Norway is completing the drilling of wildcat well 26/10-1 and will permanently plug and abandon the well after a minor gas find. Map of Well 26/10-1. From the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate…
Thrustmaster of Texas delivered the BS Camburi vessel to Petrobras. Image from Thrustmaster. The BS Camburi is a 36m monohull crewboat built in Brazil by Arpoador Engenharia to the Petrobras type P2 specification…
Watch as pipelay support vessel Sapura Diamante undergoes trials in the North Sea. IHC Merwede's fully-integrated pipelay vessel, a first for the Dutch shipbuilder, was contracted by SapuraKencana and Seadrill Brazilian joint venture…
Two of the major deepwater developments that have started production so far in the Gulf of Mexico belong to Shell and BP. Sarah Parker Musarra examines the technology behind two mammoth projects: Mars B and Na Kika. In Greek and Polynesian mythology…
Hoover Container Solutions acquired Container Company Ltd.,supplier of cargo carrying units (CCUs) for the offshore oil and gas industry. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, Container Company designs, supplies and services a full range…
The third phase of the Na Kika field in the Gulf of Mexico recently entered production, BP announced. Phase 3 production started on 19 Feb 2014, with a second well expected to come online 2Q 2014. Sitting in around 6300ft of water…
IHC Merwede launched the new pipelaying vessel Sapura Topázipo (pictured) at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands. The naming of the fully integrated IHC Merwede vessel was carried out by Puan Sri Datin Seri Yazreen Yahya…
Results of the first well drilled in the Atlanta post-salt oil field off Brazil were better than operator Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) and its partners anticipated, according to an announcement the Brazilian company made Wednesday…
A closer look at the integration and delivery of first oil in Mars B through the Olympus tension-leg platform.