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TEN on track

Nov 12, 2015

Tullow Oil's TEN development project offshore Ghana is about 75% complete and on schedule and on budget to deliver first oil in mid-2016, the firm said this morning.  The floating production, storage and offloading vessel for the project…

HHI, Saudi Aramco ink MOU

Nov 12, 2015

Saudi Aramco and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have signed a general memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly collaborate on business development opportunities in Saudi Arabia. The MoU lays out a comprehensive, multi-faceted business cooperation framework in areas such as engineering…

Global renews Namibia license

Nov 12, 2015

Global Petroleum subsidiary Jupiter Petroleum has had its first license renewal period for offshore Namibia agreed. The First Renewal Period is for two-years, starting 3 December 2015, covering Petroleum Exploration License 29 covering blocks 1910B and 2010A in the Walvis Basin…

Haewene Brim overhaul complete

Nov 12, 2015

A team from diesel power specialist Royston has completed the engine overhaul on the Bluewater-owned Haewene Brim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The facility has operated in the Pierce field in the UK sector of the North Sea since 1999…

Premier lines up Sea Lion contractors

Nov 12, 2015

UK-based independent Premier Oil says it has lined up key 'world class' contractors to provide the vessel and infrastructure for its Falklands Islands Sea Lion development, after completing pre-front end engineering and design on the project…

Nabirm, NAMCOR complete Namibia 2D

Nov 11, 2015

Nabirm announced that in conjunction with its partner, NAMCOR (10%) that it has concluded the interpretation of a 2D seismic survey on Block 2113A located in the Walvis basin, offshore Namibia, by US-based ION Geophysics. The license…

Atwood inks GoM, Brazil contracts

Nov 11, 2015

Atwood Oceanics has announced two contract activities in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and offshore Brazil. The Atwood Advantage. From Atwood Oceanics. An Atwood Oceanics subsidiary…

API elects two new members

Nov 11, 2015

Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips chairman and CEO has been elected chairman of API’s board of directors effective 1 January, 2016. Greg Garland, Phillips 66 chairman and CEO, has been elected chair of the finance committee. Lance is a petroleum…

Premier inks Subsea 7 frame agreement

Nov 11, 2015

Subsea 7 has signed a long-term partnership frame agreement with Premier Oil to provide concept engineering, front-end engineering and design, subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines project execution and life of field operations, on a preferred supplier basis…

Ophir inks Fortuna FLNG project

Nov 11, 2015

Ophir Energy announced that it has finalized commercial terms and is in the process of signing heads of agreement (HoAs) for LNG offtake from the Fortuna FLNG Project with a shortlisted group of counterparties, all of which are globally established LNG Buyers…

Hibiscus in Hydra takeover

Nov 11, 2015

Malaysia-based Hibiscus Petroleum and Australia’s Hydra Energy entered into a deal that will see Hibiscus acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Hydra Energy at “fair market value.” The addition of Hydra Energy and its portfolio of…

Apache rejects Anadarko bid

Nov 11, 2015

Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum revealed today (11 November) that it was the rejected party in the rumored acquisition of US-based Apache, which consisted of an all-stock transaction offer.   Image from Anadarko…

No pay at Sea Lion-1

Nov 10, 2015

3D Oil announced that wireline evaluation and sampling of formation fluids over zones of interest identified on preliminary Sea Lion-1 data have been completed. This work has confirmed that no zones of commercial hydrocarbons were encountered in the Sea Lion-1 well…

Ceragon, Statoil sign communications agreement

Nov 10, 2015

Ceragon Networks announced that Statoil, has formally awarded Ceragon Networks a five-year frame agreement, with an option to extend for five consecutive two-year periods. Most recently, Statoil has placed orders for Ceragon's IP-20 platform…

UK/Ireland cross border seismic completed

Nov 10, 2015

GeoPartners, in partnership with MAGE, Seabird Exploration and DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG), has announced the completion of the acquisition of a new Ireland/UK multi-­client 2D seismic survey. This is the first broadband long offset cross border survey of its kind…

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