Offshore lifting products and services related firm Sparrows Group has won a five-year deal with Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. (ADMA-OPCO) in the Middle East. The successful retender through the company’s local partner, Abu Dhabi Oilfield Services…
Wood Group is leading five new joint industry projects (JIPs) which will use the company's extensive subsea experience to solve industry-wide challenges. These international projects, which will run 2015-2018, will see Wood Group Kenny (WGK) work with several oil and gas operators…
Premier Oil is aiming to award front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the North Falklands Sea Lion project in 4Q this year, partner Rockhopper Exploration says. Sea Lion is about 220km north of the Falkland Islands in 450m water depth…
A new report from the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) blamed the crew working Walter Oil & Gas’ South Timbalier Block 220 Well A-3, 55mi off Louisiana, for a well control incident that caused a blowout and fire onboard…
Statoil, on behalf of operator Gassco, awarded IKM Ocean Design an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Johan Sverdrup gooseneck spool and retrofit hot-tap tee. Three…
Image: Neil Bruce, president and CEO of SNC-Lavalin/SNC-Lavalin SNC-Lavalin has announced that, effective 5 October, 2015, Neil Bruce will become president and CEO, and a member of the board of directors…
Ahead of tomorrow's (15 September) congressional hearing in New Orleans, API highlighted the importance of offshore oil and natural gas development to the region's economic development. Image from EMGS…
Papua New Guinea-based Oil Search has rejected Woodside’s US$8.1 billion all stock proposal the Australian company made last week. Woodside CEO Peter Coleman. Image from Woodside. Oil…
Magma Global entered into a joint development agreement with BP and Subsea 7 to qualify Magma’s carbon fiber m-pipe for subsea pipelines. The program is also supported by the National Composites Centre (NCC) and Innovate UK, the government…
DeepOcean has been awarded a call-off contract for provision of ROV-based survey services by Shell in the North Sea. This contract is for three years plus options and reflects the current strong focus on cost efficient solutions in Shell’s operations…
Image: Brandon Buzarde/Cubility Cubility has appointed Brandon Buzarde as vice president, international sales. Buzarde, who will be based in Houston, will be tasked with increasing…
Norske Shell, operator of production license 793, came up dry at the wildcat well 6407/10-5, offshore Norway. The well has been drilled about 20km southwest of the Draugen field, less than 10km southeast of the Njord field in the southern…
Image: Lagos shore end landing/Global Marine Systems Global Marine Systems has just completed a major fiber optic installation project in the Gulf of Guinea. This telecommunications project for customer Huawei Marine Networks (HMN)…
Erin Energy Corp. has announced that it has successfully completed acquisition of a new 3D seismic survey off the coast of The Gambia. The A2 and A5 blocks are located approximately 28mi (45km) offshore The Gambia and are on-trend with…
Quadrant Energy will spud the Roc-1 well located in the North West Shelf off Western Australia using the Tom Prosser jackup rig. The rig will drill a well for Vermillion Energy at the Wandoo oil field in the northwest of Dampier before commencing Roc-1 drilling operations…
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