The heads of Chinese oil firm CNPC and Mozambique's state oil firm ENH have signed a cooperation framework agreement over work in the oil and gas exploration and production market. CNPC is a partner in the Eni-operated Block 4, offshore…
Faroe Petroleum has started drilling on the Brasse exploration well in the Norwegian North Sea. The well, 31/7-1, is immediately south of the producing Brage oil field (Faroe 14.3%) and, if successful, could be tied-back to the Brage facilities or alternatively to other nearby installations…
Wood Group has been awarded an evergreen master services agreement (MSA) by Statoil to support the life cycles of its offshore and onshore facilities. Work and services covered by the MSA include engineering studies, detailed engineering…
A RIP Industrial Services worker died over the weekend, after falling 12m from a Petrobras platform, offshore Brazil. According to the Sindipetro-NF workers’ union, Victor Geraldo Brito, 29, fell from the Cherne-2 platform (PCH-2), from 12m high and did not survive the impact…
McDermott International's Australia arm has awarded Neptune a contract for the provision of 350 concrete mattresses, which will be utilized for flowlines walking mitigation on the INPEX-operated Ichthys liquefied natural gas project, offshore Australia…
The Cidade de Saquarema floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit is sailing to the Lula field offshore Brazil for its 20-year contract, following its recent conversion at the BRASA shipyard. Cidade de Saquarema departs from BRASA shipyard…
The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) has engaged HBW Resources to manage and grow its capabilities and opportunities to focus research on the development and deployment of safe and environmentally sensitive technologies to efficiently deliver domestic energy resources…
In the critical area of offshore asset integrity, a new study published by Oil & Gas UK promises to broaden awareness of the array of technologies developed and deployed successfully by the industry and other sectors which could be used to…
Erik Milito, director of upstream and industry operations, American Petroleum Institute (API), will serve as the first keynote speaker at the 12th Annual Deepwater Intervention Forum (DIF) in Galveston, Texas, on 10 August 2016. Milito…
Siemens has received a further order for an offshore wind power plant in Scotland. The company is to supply, install, and commission 84 wind turbines, each with a 154m rotor diameter designed to generate 7MW of power, for the 'Beatrice' project…
In this video, BP shows the delivery of its five subsea trees required for the Juniper project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The subsea trees, which weigh 76-tonne each, were delivered on using an Antonov 124 cargo aircraft. The trees were built with materials from Singapore…
Work on Israel’s giant deepwater Leviathan field could be back on track after a new agreement on the country’s oil and gas terms. Noble Energy, which operates the field, had put forward its revised Leviathan development plan earlier this year…
China's China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL) has been awarded a contract for 3D seismic acquisition covering a total area of over 4000sq km in Arctic waters. The contract is COSL's 'first great order' for 3D seismic operations in Arctic waters…
Greek exploration and production firm Energean Oil & Gas has secured a US$75 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to support the company’s ongoing $200 million investment plan in the Prinos and Epsilon oil fields offshore northern Greece…
UK-based geotechnical and marine firm MG3 has purchased the DP2 vessel Ocean Spirit complete with a geotechnical site investigation equipment spread. MG3 took delivery of the multirole DP2 vessel Ocean Spirit (formerly Highland Spirit)…
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