Songa Offshore has today taken delivery of Songa Endurance from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. Songa Endurance will shortly depart South Korea en-route to Norway to start an eight-year drilling contract with Statoil…
On 21 August the Polarled gas pipeline crossed 66° and 33 minutes north of the equator becoming the first pipeline to take the Norwegian gas infrastructure across the Arctic Circle. This will open a new gas highway from the Norwegian Sea to Europe…
Image: wind turbines at sea/iStock DONG Energy acquired the Hornsea zone and the project rights to Hornsea Project Two and Three, which have the potential of 3 gigawatts (GW) offshore wind capacity…
After nearly two years, Gazprom Neft Shelf has brought its second well into production at the Prirazlomnoye field in the Russian Arctic. Image of the Prirazlomnaya field. From Gazprom. Prirazlomnoye is located in the Pechora Sea…
Oceaneering International appointed Clyde Hewlett the company's new chief operating officer. In this capacity he will have expanded responsibility for managing all of Oceaneering’s oilfield business…
Image: Ecopetrol The board of directors of Ecopetrol, in its meeting held on 14 August, 2015, authorized the creation of a Colombian company indirectly wholly-owned by Ecopetrol…
Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup has received the official green light for phase one of its plan for development and operation (PDO) by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Johan Sverdrup field center…
Image: North Sea license PL410/Hibiscus Petroleum Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad has announced that its jointly-controlled entity, Lime Petroleum Norway has executed an agreement…
Image: Zhuhai skidway and assembly yard/Fluor Fluor Corp. and Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC) have formed a new joint venture, COOEC Fluor Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (CFHI)…
The PSA has completed its investigation into two incidents which occurred on the Eldfisk complex on 6-8 August 2014. Several breaches of the regulations have been identified. Image from ConocoPhillips…
Image: Hoover horizontal offshore acid tank/Hoover Container Solutions Hoover Container Solutions, a global provider of chemical tanks, cargo carrying units and related products and services…
North Sea Helicopter Pilots have indicated strong support for strike action if helicopter companies do not make serious improvements in the way they deal with job losses. They have also highlighted the serious impact on safety the threat of redundancy is having…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) announced a cost reduction program that will generate cuts in its fleet, workforce, and capital expenditures, which the company is blaming on challenging market conditions. The EM Leader…
Transocean was awarded approximately US$35 million for two different contract extensions that are about 11,000mi from each other. The Transocean Barents. From Transocean. US…
Weak demand for services in the oil sector is helping operator Premier Oil to reduce costs on its Vette and Sea Lion projects, the firm said this morning. While the now expected prolonged low oil prices could put pressure on future projects…
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