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Colombia Oil Investment to Rise 23% in 2020

Jan 28, 2020

Investment in Colombia's oil industry is set to grow by 23% in 2020, the private oil producers association said on Monday, although production will be effectively flat, increasing just 0.5% compared with the previous year. Investment in the…

OMV Hires Solstad PSV for New Zealand Campaign

Jan 28, 2020

Norwegian offshore shipping company Solstad Offshore has signed a contract with OMV Taranaki Ltd for the provision of a Platform Supply Vessel for the oil company's operations in New Zealand.The platform supply vessel Normand Tortuga will support…

Gazprom's TurkStream Pipeline Hits 1 BCM Milestone

Jan 28, 2020

Russian gas giant Gazprom has supplied its first billion cubic meters of gas via the TurkStream gas pipeline in the Black Sea, just weeks after the official opening.Of that amount, about 54 percent went to the Turkish gas market and some 46 percent was delivered to the Turkey-Bulgaria border…

Karoon Spuds Marina Well Offshore Peru

Jan 28, 2020

Karoon Energy has started drilling at its 256 million barrel prospect Marina-1 offshore Peru using the Stena Forth drillship.Karoon said Monday that the drilling operation at the Block Z‐38 in Peru's Tumbes Basin would take 30 days. Tullow, Karoon's partner in the project…

QP Charters Northern Offshore Jack-Up Rig

Jan 28, 2020

Qatar Petroleum has chartered the Energy Embracer jack-up drilling rig from Northern Offshore.The Energy Embracer was delivered from the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard in China to Northern Offshore in December 2018 and has since been warm stacked…

Shearwater Scores More Seismic Work in India

Jan 28, 2020

Norwegian seismic contractor Shearwater GeoServices has secured back-to-back 3D survey work offshore India.Under the contract, awarded by Reliance, Shearwater will carry a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition project in the Bay of Bengal…

Belgium Launches Offshore Wind to Hydrogen Project

Jan 27, 2020

Belgium's Port of Oostende, the engineering services provider DEME Concessions NV and Belgium-based investment management company PMV have launched a project to establish a plant in the Oostende port that produces green hydrogen from the electricity produced at Belgium’s offshore wind farms…

TenneT Signs 5yr Contract with LR

Jan 27, 2020

The maritime classification society Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) has secured a significant contract win with the European electricity transmission system operator TenneT.The five-year contract covers inspection and assurance services…

HST Takes Delivery of 4th FCS

Jan 27, 2020

The UK-based High Speed Transfers (HST) has taken delivery of its fourth fast crew supplier (FCS) 2710, eighteen months after receiving its first, the HST 'Hudson'.HST received HST Hudson, in June 2018, which was followed by HST Sofia in March 2019 and HST Harri in October of the same year…

Virus Might Slow Travel, But Not Oil Price

Jan 27, 2020

With three Chinese cities and about 23 million people “quarantined”, the newly formed corona virus looks set to disrupt all from the oil price to crew movement to the ability of managers to travel unobstructed — that’s if it gets that bad.Already…

Valaris' Critic Joins Board of Directors

Jan 27, 2020

Offshore drilling company Valaris has agreed to appoint Adam Weitzman to its Board. Weitzman is a partner at hedge fund Luminus which owns 18.7% of the outstanding shares of Valaris.Weitzman, as part of Luminus, has over the past year criticized Valaris (formerly known as EnscoRowan)…

SeaBird Clinches Two OBN Surveys in W. Africa

Jan 27, 2020

Norwegian marine seismic acquisition company SeaBird Exploration has received a letter of award for the provision of source vessel services.The letter of award follows SeaBirds November 2019 announcement when the company said it had received…

Eni Charters Vroon PSV for Long-Term P&A Work in UK

Jan 27, 2020

Dutch offshore vessel owner Vroon Offshore Services has recently secured a charter deal with Eni for its platform supply vessel VOS Prelude.Vroon on Monday said the charter was with Eni's UK subsidiary Eni UK Limited. Under the contract, the…

U.S. Offshore Rig Count Bumped Up

Jan 27, 2020

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count rose by one unit last week, Baker Hughes' weekly rig count report released on Friday showed.According to the report, there were 21 offshore drilling rigs active in the U.S. during the week, up from 20 during the previous week…

Damen Unveils New OSV Design

Jan 27, 2020

Dutch shipbuilding conglomerate Damen has developed a new concept vessel, the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020, featuring a stable platform with lots of accommodation, good station-keeping capability, low carbon emissions and flexibility to add mission-specific tools…

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