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Heidelberg spar sets sail

Jun 24, 2015

Anadarko's Heidelberg truss spar has set sail from Ingleside, Texas, to its future home at Green Canyon block 859 in the US Gulf of Mexico. The journey is some 390mi off the Texas coast. The US independent confirmed the news via Facebook on Tuesday…

Cost cutting requirements for decommissioning

Jun 24, 2015

Oil and gas supply chain leaders need to drive “transformational change” to bring down costs before the multi-billion North Sea decommissioning program will start, a leading industry figure said. Supply chain companies in the East of…

Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas files IPO

Jun 24, 2015

Houston-based Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas (FM O&G) will be the first US oil producer to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. The company filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission…

DONG announces UK wind farm construction

Jun 24, 2015

DONG Energy has decided to construct Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, located in the Greater Wash area, approximately 27km off the east coast of Britain.The project will span approximately 29sq mi and is due to be operational by 2018. Race…

Fugro assists Alvheim project

Jun 24, 2015

Fugro is providing wave measurements to support construction operations at an improved oil recovery (IOR) project on the Norwegian continental shelf, around 225km west of Stavanger. The subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field…

TAM releases V0 port collar

Jun 24, 2015

TAM International introduced a new V0-rated cementing port collar to complement their extensive cement integrity product line. For casing integrity, the metal-to-metal (MTM) design port collar meets the industry’s latest and most rigorous standard…

Unique Group plans business expansions

Jun 24, 2015

Unique Group, formerly known as Unique Maritime Group, has set in place measures to double its size and global infrastructure by 2019 through capital investment, acquisitions and expansion into key markets. With a current turnover in excess of US$100 million…

Schlumberger to offer depth domain inversion services

Jun 24, 2015

Schlumberger has launched depth domain inversion services, which is used by petrotechnical for reliability and consistency in seismic structural and quantitative interpretation in complex environments.  Performing seismic inversion in…

Woodside gets Browse retention lease offer

Jun 24, 2015

The Commonwealth Western Australia Offshore Petroleum Joint Authority and the WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum offered Woodside Energy petroleum retention lease offers for WA-28-R, WA-29- R, WA-30-R, WA-31-R, WA-32-R, TR/5 and R2, in which the company has 30 days to accept…

Statoil cancels rig contract

Jun 24, 2015

Statoil will cancel the contract with the China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL) vessel, COSL Pioneer, about 13 months before the expiry date of August 2016, reports the company. COSL Pioneer has been suspended since 8 October 2014 and Statoil…

Greater Njord taking shape at drill bit

Jun 24, 2015

Drilling to further grow the resources around the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea has started, with more expected this year, helping firm up plans for the greater Njord area, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. Concept selection for…

Expro wins Jubilee and TEN contracts

Jun 24, 2015

UK-based Expro Group has been awarded new contracts from Tullow Oil worth more than US$100 million over three years. The contracts will see Expro work across Tullow Oil’s assets in Ghana, including the Jubilee field and the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field project (see map)…

Harkand supports Solan commissioning

Jun 24, 2015

UK-based subsea inspection, repair and maintenance sector firm Harkand has started work with Premier Oil supporting the Solan field development, West of Shetland. Harkand's multi-purpose service vessel Siem Spearfish, which is on long-term charter to Harkand…

Framo wins $24 million Johan Sverdrup contract

Jun 24, 2015

Sweden's Alfa Laval has won an order to supply its Framo pumping systems to the Johan Sverdrup field development in the Norwegian North Sea. The order, booked in the Marine & Offshore Pumping Systems segment, has a value of approximately SEK 200 million (US$24…

Lundin spins multiple bits on NCS

Jun 24, 2015

Swedish headquartered Lundin Petroleum has started spinning two drill bits on the Norwegian Continental Shelf - on Alta, in the Barents Sea, and one on the Edvard Grieg discovery, in the Norwegian North Sea. Both are appraisal wells.…

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