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Aker BP Extends Archer Contract

Sep 24, 2019

Oilfield services company Archer announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded a 15-month extension to its existing platform drilling and maintenance services contract for Aker BP’s Valhall and Ula platforms on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…

Pemex Prepays $5.17 Billion in Bond Tender

Sep 24, 2019

Mexico's Pemex said on Monday it had paid $5.17 billion in a tender offer to prepay about a third of its bonds maturing between 2020-23, part of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's latest effort to shore up the state oil firm.The company announced the bond tender earlier this month…

Norway's August Output Lags Forecast

Sep 24, 2019

Norway's oil output fell by 10.1% year-on-year in August to 1.353 million barrels of oil equivalents per day, lagging official forecast by 4%, the country's Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Tuesday.Daily natural gas output fell by 19.8% from the year before…

Tracerco Scores Subsea Inspection Work

Sep 24, 2019

Tracerco, part of Johnson Matthey Plc, reports it has recently been awarded seven subsea inspection projects to provide flow assurance and asset integrity data on a variety of pipelines, flowlines and risers in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and Offshore West Africa…

CNOOC to Start Lingshui Production in 2021

Sep 24, 2019

China's national offshore producer CNOOC Ltd expects its major deepwater gas field Lingshui 17-2 in the South China Sea to start its first gas production at the end of 2021, a company executive said on Tuesday.Chinese state-run energy producers…

Okea Gets Consent for Draugen Drilling

Sep 24, 2019

Norwegian oil company Okea ASA Okea has been granted safety consent to drill its first operated wells off Norway, with drilling of a pair of probes near its Draugen field due to start next month.  According to a press note, the Norway's Petroleum…

Yakaar-2 Offshore Well Confirms Gas Resource

Sep 24, 2019

American upstream oil company Kosmos Energy reported that the Yakaar-2 appraisal well offshore Senegal has confirmed a world-scale natural gas resource in the BP-ledYakaar-Teranga gas project.The Yakaar-2 appraisal well was drilled in approximately 2…

Delek Offered Funds to Invest in Ithaca

Sep 24, 2019

Israeli oil and gas company Delek has received an offer from an unnamed investor for a potential investment of up to $250 million into its North Sea focused subsidiary Ithaca Energy.'Delek Group, received a signed offer from an international…

OHT Bags Moray East Jackets Gig

Sep 24, 2019

The heavy transport vessel operator Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has secured a contract from DEME Offshore to transport foundations for the 950MW Moray East wind farm off Scotland.The contract includes transportation of 48 jackets from Lamprell fabrication yard…

Subsea Market on the Rise in 2019

Sep 24, 2019

Subsea equipment and SURF– subsea, umbilicals, risers, and flowlines – are the best-performing segments, with growth rates exceeding 10% on a yearly basis in the second quarter of 2019.Rystad Energy announced that the subsea market is definitely on the rise in the oilfield service sector…

Ørsted Buys Into Turbine Transfer Innovator

Sep 24, 2019

Ørsted, the largest energy company in Denmark, has acquired a 22.5% share in Pict Offshore, the Scottish developer of an innovative technology set to transform the way technicians access offshore wind turbines.The Get Up Safe (GUS) system, developed in partnership between Ørsted and Pict Offshore…

ModuSpec to Operate Independently

Sep 24, 2019

Rig inspection services company ModuSpec said it has reemerged as an independent operating company following a strategic restructure of engineering and technical professional services organization Lloyd’s Register (LR).In March, LR announced…

Transocean Cancels Drillship Deliveries

Sep 23, 2019

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean announced on Monday that it will not take delivery of two newbuild drillships that were scheduled to be handed over from Korean builder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in 2019 and 2020.Transocean said two of its indirect…

Energean Power FPSO Floated Out

Sep 23, 2019

A timelapse video from Energean shows the floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Energean Power being built over 10 months and then floated out from a COSCO shipyard in Zhoushan, China.The FPSO, which floated out in mid-September…

Halliburton Acquires Downhole Cutting Tools

Sep 23, 2019

Oilfield services provider Halliburton said it acquired a new portfolio of electro-mechanical downhole cutting tools and tubing punches from Westerton (UK) Ltd.Designed as an alternative to traditional pipe recovery and intervention across the well lifecycle from exploration to abandonment…

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