Total E&P Uruguay awarded Fugro a contract to support its drilling campaign offshore Uruguay. The contract provides for ROV and tooling services in the Raya-1 prospect in 3400m water depth. Fugro is supplying two state-of-the-art 200hp FCV 4000D work-class ROV systems and subsea tooling…
Kuala Lumpur's Mitra Energy acquired 30% interest in two blocks, Block 05-1B and Block 05-1C offshore Vietnam, from Inpex subsidiary Teikoku Oil in a US$14.3 million deal. Image from Inpex. Block 05-1…
Independent explorer Cairn Energy is looking to restart drilling offshore Senegal 'shortly' with some 500 MMbbl extra resources in its sights, the firm said this morning. The latest drilling program off Senegal, will include appraisal of the 'world-class' SNE discovery…
Statoil has started drilling on the Njord North Flank-2 (NF-2) exploration well 6407/7-9 S in the Norwegian Sea, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. The NF-2 prospect is in production license 107C, immediately north of the Njord field…
Ithaca Energy is eyeing November as its start-up date for first hydrocarbons at the Stella field, as the company reduced its net debt to US$606 million in 1H 2016. The FPF-1 departing Remontowa yard…
Total E&P Services awarded Emerson a 10-year contract to provide control and safety system maintenance services that will support Total’s global upstream oil and gas operations. The 10-year frame agreement is part of Total’s Integrated Control and Safety Systems standardization strategy…
Singapore-based KrisEnergy’s revenue has tripled in 1H 2016, as a loss of production occurred at its five Wassana wells in the Gulf of Thailand. Wassana illustration, from KrisEnergy. The…
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton (HAL) business, released the 9.5in Azimuthal Lithodensity (ALD) service, providing real-time density measurements and images in boreholes up to 17.5in. ALD is designed to provide downhole density measurements…
Det norske has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the Maersk Interceptor jackup to drill production wells at Ivar Aasen. Ivar Aasen is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 175km west-southwest of Karmøy in Rogaland county…
Quayside Fabrication has designed a subsea basket that can be stacked and secured on a vessel while at sea. The newly named ‘Stackable at Sea’ subsea baskets can save valuable deck space and can result in fewer trips to sea for oil companies…
Quadrant Energy’s Driftwood-1 commitment well intersected water wet objectives offshore Western Australia. Image of the Tom Prosser, from Noble. Driftwood-1, is in the WA-320-P permit…
In this video, Norwegian giant Statiol shows a time-lapse of the 1700-tonne heavy lift on the Dudgeon bank. The Oleg Strashnov heavy lift vessel installed the substation for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm off Norfolk, UK. The substation…
GMC has successfully installed a seawater caisson in the North Sea; eight days ahead of schedule. It is the first installation carried out by the company in the North Sea; with a further two fabricated caissons completed and ready to be installed later this year…
Ashtead Technology has successfully completed a subsea integrity management project to support BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, West of Shetland. Subsea technology and equipment provider Ashtead deployed its new Deflection Monitoring System (DMS)…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded more than £200,000 in the final stage of its exploration license competition which was launched earlier this year to stimulate further interest in offshore oil and gas exploration activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS)…
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