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)…
A team of eight salvors have finally made it aboard the stricken semisubmersible drilling rig, which grounded off the Isle of Lewis, off Scotland, a week ago today. The rig grounded early last Monday morning after parting from the tug…
US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced a proposed lease sale for 122,405 acres offshore North Carolina for commercial wind energy leasing. Image from Siemens…
Plans to put a team of eight salvors on board the grounded semisubmersible oil rig Transocean Winner have had to be called off because the conditions are unsuitable to winch them down safely, according to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency…
Image of Toma, from IhabToma.com. Former Schlumberger and Transocean executive Ihab Toma has been appointed as Vantage Drilling International’s next chief executive officer (CEO)…
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