Lady Sponsor Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil, has named Maersk Drilling’s newest jackup, the Maersk Highlander, at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Image of Watkins, from Maersk. Maersk…
SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad has delivered its sixth and final pipelay vessel (PLV), the Sapura Rubi on schedule to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras) and the vessel started work in Brazil on 14 August 2016. Image of the Sapura Diamante…
UK supermajor BP has hit a milestone on 15 August at its Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli field offshore Azerbaijan, by producing 3 billion bbl since the start of production from the Chirag platform in 1997. ACG is a complex of six production platforms: Chirag-1…
Tullow Oil has achieved first oil from the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) fields offshore Ghana with MODEC’s Prof. John Evans Atta Mills floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel. Prof…
Sparrows Group and SPIE Oil & Gas Services have entered into a global agreement to work in collaboration to support the energy sector. The deal will see the companies work together to initially deliver their collective service offering…
Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (UK) Ltd. completed the industry’s first riser-based coiled tubing intervention project from a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) class light well intervention vessel (LWIV). The Well Enhancer…
Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache. Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble…
Permasense, the leading provider of remote corrosion and erosion monitoring solutions to the global energy industry, has completed the first installation of the ET210 Integrity Monitoring System in the UK North Sea, on Total’s Alwyn platform…
UK-based driller Awilco Drilling has swung back to a profit in Q2, but is set to cold-stack its WilHunter semisubmersible due to lack of work opportunities for it in the short-term. The WilHunter will join a fleet of seven cold-stacked…
UK based explorer Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) is targeting two prospects thought to contain 46 MMbbl after successfully appraising the Skipper oil discovery in the North Sea. While drilling the Skipper appraisal well hit delays, due to the need to re-spud the well…
Cypriot firm Ocean Energean Oil and Gas is to buy 100% interest in the Tanin and Karish fields in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel, for US$148.5 million. Delek Group, Avner Oil Exploration and Delek Drilling have agreed to sell their 26…
DONG Energy has been given development consent for the 300 turbine, 1.8GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm, 89km off coast of east England. Hornsea Project Two, which is being developed by SMartWind, owned by DONG, could meet the electricity needs of approximately 1…
FMC Technologies and DOF Subsea have entered into an agreement for two new remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from FMC’s Schilling Robotics business line. The HD and UHD-III ROVs will be delivered in December 2016. These ROVs will be utilized by DOF Subsea for its inspection…
Utility ROV Services (URS), has unveiled two new custom ROV (remotely operated vehicle) systems at their base in Glenrothes, Scotland demonstrating a US$7.8 million (£6 million) investment in the company. As a result of the additional capacity the extra systems will provide…
Quadrant Energy has encountered a 10m section of elevated gas readings its Roc-2 well, in addition to moderate fluorescence that indicates exploration potential in the area offshore Western Australia. Map of Roc-2…
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