KLAW has developed the Marine2, a new marine breakaway coupling. The Marine2 is 32% shorter and 25% lighter than alternative marine breakaway couplings on the market and is designed to reduce stress on hoses used on offshore hose reel applications…
ExxonMobil’s Hebron platform will be towed from the Bull Arm construction site next month, on its way to the Hebron field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The Hebron platform being towed from Bull Arm…
Wintershall has started production from its first-ever operated Danish oil field, the Ravn field in the North Sea. The Ravn platfrom. Image from Wintershall. Ravn is in Block 5/06 in the Danish North Sea…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and The British Geological Survey (BGS) have released the 21st Century Exploration Roadmap (21CXRM) Palaeozoic Project. The project aims to improve the knowledge and data from the under-explored Palaeozoic…
Tendeka, a global provider of completions systems and services for the upstream oil and gas industry based in Aberdeen, has secured a two-year contract with a Malaysian operator for the provision of Tendeka’s FloSure Elite Sand Screens with…
TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea's jointly owned Skandi Búzios pipelay support vessel (PLSV) has started its 8-year charter with Petrobras. Skandi Búzios is the sistership of the Skandi Açu, which started its charter contract almost exactly a year ago…
A project to use wind turbines to power water injection facilities on oil fields is to move into a second testing phase, says joint industry project leader DNV GL. The WIN WIN concept includes a floating wind turbine, which supplies…
Tidal energy developer Minesto has received marine license for a 0.5 MW installation of its Deep Green technology in Holyhead Deep, in Holyhead Deep off the coast of Anglesey. The Swedish firm has developed a technology, which sees a turbine tethered to the seafloor but able to move around…
Wärtsilä will supply the engines and other propulsion machinery for what it says will be the first LNG-powered offshore construction vessel, being built at the Cosco shipyard in China for Belgium's Dredging International (DEME). 'This…
African Petroleum signed nonbinding heads of terms and a binding exclusivity agreement with a “well-funded, listed oil and gas company with a strong track record in offshore deepwater drilling,” for a drilling campaign offshore Senegal and The Gambia…
VAALCO Energy has appointed Phil Patman as chief financial officer (CFO) effective 17 April 2017. Patman has over 20 years of experience in the oil, gas and other areas of the energy industry in key roles including finance, business development…
Bristow Helicopters Ltd. has secured a new contract with Apache North Sea Ltd. to support its North Sea operations. The contract which has a five-year primary term, with further extension options, will commence on 1 September 2017. Aircraft…
Energy XXI Gulf Coast (EGC) has appointed Douglas E. Brooks as chief executive officer and president effective 17 April 2017. The EGC board concurrently increased the size of the board from six to seven directors and named Brooks to fill the newly-created directorship…
First Marine Solutions (FMS) has signed an official alliance with Interocean Marine Services (a Rigmar Group company) combining their equipment and technical capabilities to offer enhanced integrated mooring solutions. Both companies…
CNOOC CEO Yang Hua has resigned from his position effective today (18 April), with Yuan Guanguy taking the reigns. Yang, who was only CEO for less than one year at the company, will stay on as the chairman of the board. Yang was promoted…
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