Dutch contractor Jumbo has completed a contract for PetroSA installing a subsea MEG riser on the Ikhwezi development FA platform offshore South Africa. The contract was awarded by PetroSA on 5 December, offshore installation…
Maersk Supply Service show an illustration of its four new subsea support vessels, due to enter the market no later than 2017. The vessels are rated for advanced operations in water depths of up to 3000 m. They offer 1925 sq m of free deck space for equipment and cargo…
Statoil and Wood Group Mustang Norway (WGMN) completed the hook-up of the Valemon platform in the North Sea. Valemon. From Statoil. WGMN teamed with the Korean engineering, procurement…
Saipem awarded FES International a US$2 million contract to supply bend stiffener connectors (BSCs) for the Egina project. The BSCs will be used by global energy company, Total, at its third deep offshore development off the coast of Nigeria…
Total E&P UK has awarded Technip an additional scope for the parallel development of the Glenlivet field close to the Edradour subsea development, about 75km northwest of Shetlands in the UK North Sea. The Glenlivet scope includes: fabrication and installation of 12in…
Statoil and its Johan Sverdrup partners awarded Aibel a US$1 billion contract for the engineering, procurement and construction for the deck of the drilling platform on the Johan Sverdrup field. Johan Sverdrup field…
Escalating cost facing the global upstream sector was a recurring theme in presentations on the challenges facing new E&P developments during IP Week in London in mid-February. Meg Chesshyre reports. An aerial view of the Laggan-Tormore development…
Oil & Gas UK’s new report on offshore exploration, investment and production provides striking evidence of how rising costs, taxes and inadequate regulation have taken their toll on the UK industry’s international competitiveness. The…
Farstad Shipping ASA signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Technip regarding utilization of the subsea vessel Far tbn Sleipner. The agreement is to secure the vessel for a period of 11 months, divided into two fixed periods. Including mobilization and demobilization…
Lukoil Overseas North Shelf AS awarded AGR a US$131,000 contract for its well intelligence software solution, iQx. AGR’s iQx software is designed to simplify and increase efficiency of the planning and execution of drilling wells.…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway granted Talisman Energy Norge AS consent for exploration drilling of well 15/12-24 at the Snømus prospect. Image of the Maersk Giant jackup. From Maersk. The well is located in production license 672…
Middle East orders are driving growth and filling newly built capacity at Sweden headquartered Atlas Copco’s newly upgraded and expanded UK systems facility. Atlas Copco Compressors’ largest ever UK designed and built custom engineered package…
Statoil has agreed to buy stakes in production license 602, close to the Aasta Hansteen development project, in the Norwegian Sea from Norwegian exploration firm Rocksource and Faroese explorer Atlantic Petroleum. Statoil will take Rocksource’s 10% stake in PL602 and 2…
Statoil is eying further opportunities in the Oseberg area after bringing its tenth fast-track portfolio project, the 77 MMboe recoverable Oseberg Delta 2, onstream. Oseberg Delta 2 is a two-template, 14km-long subsea tieback from the Delta terrace to the Oseberg Field Centre…
BP has brought forward its deployment of Aberdeen-based Return To Scene's R2S Visual Asset Management (VAM) spherical photographic capture of its Atlantis facility in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The R2S photographic team is already on site in the US with project completion…
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