Centek Group, a centralizer manufacturer, has formed a deepwater division to focus the sale and support of its specialist deepwater centralizer products. Centek’s deepwater centralizers are designed for use in wells where as many as nine…
Statoil, operator of production license 72 B, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/7-11 on behalf of production licenses 72 B, 72 D and 72 E. This is the second exploration well in production license 72 B. The…
If you're an old hand at major oil events you'll know that you're choice of clothing can be key to having a successful show. For those who are new, not having the right gear on can leave you shivvering in a technical session or baking hot on the exhibition floor…
Eni has laid claim to discovering the largest gas field in Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea and says the field could become one of the world’s largest natural gas finds. The Italian operator says the deepwater Zohr field could hold up to 30 Tcf of lean gas in place (or 5…
UK authorities have given the green light to one of the largest new field discoveries in the UK North Sea – Maersk Oil’s £3 billion (US$ 4.5 billion) Culzean development. The project has been welcomed as a “clear signal the North Sea…
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has agreed to buy Cameron International’s offshore rig business for US$100 million, comprising of the LeTourneau jackup rig designs. Keppel says the LeTourneau suite of jackup rig designs have been…
As the oil price further deteriorates, major oil-producing countries are looking to the future and to sustainability. Recently, Bloomberg forecast that two-thirds of the US$12.2 trillion global investment in capacity-generation to 2040 will be in the renewables sector…
Offshore energy production in the Gulf of Mexico has experienced relatively minor disruptions because of tropical storms and hurricanes in recent years, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted a below…
OEG Offshore, a global provider of cargo carrying units (CCUs) and A60 modules to the oil and gas industry, has announced the merger of its US business with Louisiana based oilfield equipment provider Cameron Rental and Tank (CRT). The…
Image: on-site machining/IKM Testing The IKM Group announced that IKM Testing has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Oceaneering’s Norwegian Onsite Machining & Cutting business…
LUKOIL, a provider of marine lubricants, has expand its global supply network, opening a new warehouse in Gothenburg, Sweden, which will reduce lead time and increase flexibility when delivering lubricants to vessels calling at Scandinavian ports…
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway to drill exploration well 15/3-10 in a prospect named Sigrun East with the potential of a sidetrack well. The area where the well is to be drilled is around…
North Sea-focused Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) is aiming to drill an appraisal well on the Skipper discovery later this year with contractor led funding. Image from IOG. The…
Two Norwegian polar researchers have returned from a project to collect seismic data over an area of the Arctic usually inaccessible to seismic vessels. The pair, Yngve Kristoffersen and Audun Tholfsen, deployed their ice drift technique…
Norway-based Bergen Group has appointed Hans Petter Eikeland as its new CEO as of today, 28 August. Hans Petter Eikeland is appointed up to July 2016 and succeeds Asle Solheim. “Eikeland has an industrial understanding and vigor that…