The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) board of directors has elected Kevin McEvoy as chairman and Dave Welch as vice chairman for the upcoming 2016-2017 term. McEvoy and Welch assumed their positions at the NOIA Annual Meeting in Washington…
Wild Well Control’s DeepRange tool, in conjunction with its 7Series riserless intervention system, has successfully performed full plug and abandonment operations on four subsea wells in the Gulf of Mexico. These wells are a part of a larger…
Quadrant Energy has encountered natural gas at its Davis-1 near-field exploration well, off the coast of Western Australia, according to joint venture partner Santos. Davis-1 is located some 12km from the existing John Brookes platform…
Malaysian state oil firm Petronas is due to start drilling offshore Suriname next month, the country's state oil firm says. Staatsolie says Petronas, with partner DEA, a German company, has lined up the Rowan Company's Ralph Coffman…
Significant hydrocarbon potential has been outlined in the south Porcupine offshore Ireland, according to initial results of a collaboration project between operator Providence Resources and oilfield services firm Schlumberger. Two firms…
Transocean has listed one rig as held for sale and inked three new contracts, including a new contract for its Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 ultra deepwater drillship, currently based offshore east India. The rate for the vessel is undisclosed…
Woodside Energy has been served by Bumi Armada Berhad with a US$283.5 million legal claim, after the Australian company terminated a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) charter contract for operations offshore northwestern Australia…
Repsol Norge awarded DeepOcean a contract for provision of engineering, procurement, removal and disposal (EPRD) of Varg Subsea facilities in the North Sea. Image of the Edda Freya, from DeepOcean…
Brazil’s Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) recorded a total of 2.55 MMboe/d of oil and natural gas production in March, of which 2.36 MMboe were produced in Brazil and 183,000 boe/d abroad. Image of the P-31 FPSO…
Tidal energy firm Atlantis is looking to form a joint venture to develop a 150MW tidal stream site off Indonesia. The firm is joining forces with SBS, a privately owned international marine, subsea and renewable energy developer, which…
Aqualis Offshore and China Ship Design & Research Center Co. (CSDC) have signed an agreement to cooperate on engineering projects both in China and internationally. CSDC specializes in shipbuilding and offshore engineering services.…
Wood Group has been awarded a five-year contract by Nexen, worth US$150 million. Extending a contract in place since April 2010, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to deliver operations, maintenance and technical support across Nexen’s North Sea offshore assets…
Viking Supply Ships will close its office in St. John’s, Newfoundland effective 28 April 2016. Future commercial activities in the Newfoundland and Eastern-Canada region will be followed up closely by dedicated personnel from the Viking…
V-IR, a new technology system designed to identify the location of electrical faults on subsea installations, is undergoing a shallow water trial at Portishead Quays marina. Established through The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)…
DOF Subsea has been awarded more than US$61.6 million (NOK 500 million) in IMR and subsea installation contracts in several regions, including key work on Eni's OCTP project offshore Ghana. DOF was awarded an FPSO mooring installation…
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