OMV's Maari MR7A development well is now online offshore New Zealand, according to joint venture partner Cue Energy. Map of PMP 38160. From Cue. The Maari MR7A well is located in PMP 38160 in the Taranaki basin…
Full details of the conference sessions and speakers lined up for SPE Offshore Europe 2015 are now available on the event’s website. Image from Offshore Europe Facebook. The choice of this year’s theme…
Danish intervention specialist Welltec has entered into a technology collaboration framework agreement with Shell Global Solutions International, an affiliate of Shell, to improve existing or develop new technologies for global application in the energy industry…
UK trade union GMB has agreed to hold a strike ballot after talks over a dispute over changes to terms for UK offshore workers stalled. The GMB is taking action of what it describes as unilateral changes to working conditions for workers…
DONG Energy reached a new milestone having installed 3000MW of offshore wind capacity - around half of it in the UK. The total output - achieved today with the installation of turbine number 76 at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Wind…
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has selected a consortium led by Aberdeen-based consultancy Pale Blue Dot Energy to deliver a project to identify offshore CO2 storage sites. Specifically, it is looking to progress sites deep under…
Floating accommodation provider Prosafe and BG Group have agreed to re-phase the Safe Bristolia accommodation support vessel's 2015 work program at the Everest platform. The move will see the unit spend less time in 2015 at the UK North Sea Everest platform…
On 20 May 2015, ExxonMobil (45% and operator) announced a discovery at its Liza-1 well on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The well was spud on 5 March and drilled to an Upper Cretaceous fan play at a depth of 5433m in 1743m of water.…
The Petroleum Bill and suite of associated regulations as well as a sovereign wealth bill have been put before the Bahamian House of Assembly for their second readings on 20 May, Bahamas Petroleum Co. announced. Image from Bahamas Petroleum…
A consortium formed by Hydro Group and Wenex Equipments has successfully secured a US$3.9 million marine renewables contract. The contract involves the manufacturing and installation of array cabling infrastructure on the SEM-REV marine renewable energy project…
India’s petroleum minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan led a delegation to Mexico and Colombia this week to meet with officials in each country in hopes of transforming the relationship among the three countries from “buyer-seller” to an “energy partnership…
Australia-based WorleyParsons will pay US$55 million to an ExxonMobil (XOM) subsidiary after reaching a settlement on a dispute over a $550 million contract for engineering work for an offshore drilling platform it designed. In 2008, WorleyParsons was contracted by Exxon Neftegas…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) granted Suncor Energy a drilling permit for the wildcat well 25/10-13 S in the central North Sea. Well 25/10-13 S, located in production license 571, will be drilled from Dolphin Drilling's Borgland Dolphin semisubmersible…
BG Group announced that operational control of Train 1 at its Queensland Curtis LNG plant has been formally transferred to QGC, BG Group's Australian subsidiary, from Bechtel Australia, which constructed the facility. QCLNG…
Subsea engineering and training firm Jee has been awarded a contract from Amec Foster Wheeler for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a jacket rigid polymer injection riser package (including J-tubes) as part of an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) field development for Chevron…
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