In this video, McDermott International shows a behind the scene video of what it took for its team to prepare for the launch of the 7000 million-tonne Ayatsil C jacket for Pemex in the Bay of Campeche.
A rising number of UK operator companies are demonstrating their commitment to working smarter by signing up to two initiatives designed to reduce the legal and commercial complexity of offshore operations. As a result of collaboration between UK operators…
First gas from the Hummer development offshore Louisiana is expected in mid-2017, says partner Petsec Energy. The firm, which holds 12.5% interest in Hummer, said a production test on Main Pass Block 270 #3 BP 01 discovery well (initially…
The first offshore wind farm to deliver energy to the American power grid is now operational, owner Deepwater Wind said this week. The turbines have now completed commissioning and testing and started commercial operations. Energy produced…
Dutch maritime transport firm Boskalis has dropped its stake in fellow Netherlands-headquartered firm Fugro down to 9.38%, the company announced today (13 December). The news is likely welcomed by Fugro, which has been at odds with Boskalis…
Geokinetics, a provider of integrated seismic data acquisition, processing and reservoir analysis solutions, will acquire the intellectual property and legacy assets of Geotrace Technologies, a provider of seismic imaging and reservoir analysis services…
EnerMech has been awarded its first contract by Subsea 7 in the Australian oil and gas market. The mechanical engineering group will perform a range of subsea flowline and umbilical pre-commissioning on the Woodside-operated North West Shelf…
ALE is approaching the final stages of its load-out operations for the Upper Zakum 750 Island Surface Facilities (UZ750) Project, based 84km offshore, northwest of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The heavy lifting contractor secured the scope to deliver almost 100 different modules to the north…
RINA Indonesia, in consortium with PT Depriwangga, has been awarded a contract by Chevron Indonesia to provide QA/QC inspection services as part of the offshore Bangka Field development project. The Bangka Field is located approximately…
DeepOcean was awarded a contract from Statoil for survey and light construction services in 2017. Image of the Superior ROV, from DeepOcean. Offshore work will be undertaken in 2017 with a vessel from DeepOcean’s in-house fleet…
Delek Drilling and Avner Oil, part of the Leviathan partnership with Noble Energy, has approved the development plan for the mega-discovery, offshore Israel, the two announced today 12 December. The decision paves the way to Leviathan's final investment decision (FID)…
Noble Corp. and Shell have entered a deal to amend contracts for three ultra deepwater drillships, due to today's challenging environment, that will prove to be beneficial for both companies. Image of the Globetrotter I…
A new study by Wood Mackenzie on what to expect from global oil and gas exploration in the year ahead, Global Exploration: What to look for in 2017, shows that exploration should return to profitability in 2017, after five years of only single-digit returns…
In conjunction with geophysical and geochemical surveys currently being acquired by sister company Searcher Seismic, Ecosscope is using cutting edge technology to acquire valuable environmental baseline data in the Gulf of Papua. Ecosscope…
Faroe Islands-based Atlantic Petroleum is to take over as operator of the Orlando and Kells licenses in the UK North Sea following operator Iona Energy going into administration. Orlando and Kells are in UK North Sea licenses P.1606 and P…
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