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Xodus, Subcon collaborate on decommissioning

Nov 03, 2017

UK-based Xodus Group has formed a new collaboration with stabilization and artificial reef specialist Subcon International to deliver Integrated Rigs to ReefsTM (IR2RTM) decommissioning solutions globally. The partnership combines Xodus’…

Inpex adds to acreage near Ichthys

Nov 03, 2017

Japan's Inpex has been awarded an exploration permit for Release Area WA-532-P, close to its Ichthys LNG development, in Australia’s 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Inpex Browse will hold a 100% participating interest in the block…

Carnarvon inks Bonaparte Basin license

Nov 03, 2017

Carnarvon Petroleum has been awarded the shalow water AC/P62 permit in the Southern Vulcan Sub-basin, in the prospective Bonaparte Basin, on Western Australia’s North West Shelf. The large 1512sq km permit contains multiple attractive…

Samsung delivers Egina FPSO

Nov 03, 2017

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered French oil major Total's deepwater Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel was completed at SHI's Geoje-shipyard under a US$3 billion turnkey project, and set sail for Nigeria on 31 October 2017…

TechnipFMC inks Murphy Sabah EPCIC

Nov 03, 2017

TechnipFMC has been awarded a subsea contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for the Phase 1A Block H Gas Development Project, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, in 1300m water depth. This contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the umbilicals…

TechnipFMC wins Fenja EPCI, SURF work

Nov 02, 2017

VNG Norge, on behalf of the PL 586 partners, has issued a letter of intent (LOI) to TechnipFMC for the Fenja field development project (formerly known as Pil and Bue). The LOI covers the EPCI (engineering, procurement, construction and…

Tullow, Sterling to exit Mauritania Block C-10

Nov 02, 2017

Tullow Oil and partner Sterling Energy have decided to exit Block C-10 offshore Mauritania after determining the block’s prospects did not commercially justify a third phase of exploration. Block C-10…

Engie ups Cara resources, eyes tieback to Gjøa

Nov 02, 2017

French operator Engie E&P has increased its resource estimate for the Cara field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and reached a 'concretization decision,' or feasibility decision gate, on the field. Engie says Cara contains 56-94 MMboe…

Ocean Installer inks Cambo work

Nov 02, 2017

Ocean Installer has been awarded an agreement with Siccar Point Energy and Baker Hughes, a GE company, to support the appraisal and early production phases of the Cambo Project, with the ability to extend into the future developments.   Ocean…

INEOS completes Forties Pipeline System deal with BP

Nov 02, 2017

INEOS has completed its acquisition of the North Sea Forties Pipeline System (FPS) and associated pipelines and facilities and the Kinneil Terminal from oil major BP. The 235-mile pipeline system links 85 North Sea oil and gas assets to the UK mainland and the INEOS site in Grangemouth…

Trelleborg supports wave energy membrane tech

Nov 02, 2017

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation has supplied a bespoke, flexible rubber membrane to WETFEET, a US$4.03 million (€3.46 million), three-year research and development project designed to foster the exploitation of ocean wave energy…

Chevron partners with Microsoft for digitalization, IoT efforts

Nov 02, 2017

Chevron has agreed a seven-year partnership with Microsoft which will see the internet giant become the oil major's primary cloud provider. Chevron says the move will 'accelerate the application of advanced technologies including analytics…

IOG to drill Harvey within two years

Nov 02, 2017

Independent Oil and Gas says it will drill a well on its Harvey license in the UK southern North Sea within two years, after a new report estimated 45-286 Bcf on the block.  The competent person's report by ERC Equipoise says the…

Eco eyes Namibia offshore drilling

Nov 02, 2017

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas is plannig to drill a well on its Osprey prospect in the Cooper Block (PEL30) in the Walvis Oil Basin, offshore Namibia. Osprey is in about 500m water depth and  has had several thousand kilometers of 2D seismic and a 3D survey…

Providence farms out on Helvick and Dunmore, offshore Ireland

Nov 02, 2017

Providence Resources has been given consent to farm out stakes in the the Helvick and Dunmore Lease Undertakings (LU), in the North Celtic Sea Basin, and Dunquin South, in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 3/04, in the southern Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland…

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