Van Oord awarded FoundOcean the contract to grout the 150 monopile foundations for the 600mW Gemini Offshore Wind Farm. The project will be the first to use MasterFlow 9800, a new material jointly developed by FoundOcean and BASF. Image…
EnQuest awarded Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) a five-year contract to provide engineering, design, construction, procurement and commissioning services to the Thistle, Heather and Northern Producer offshore assets in the North Sea. The contract…
Dana Petroleum awarded Technip a brownfield subsea contract for the Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the central North Sea. Image from Dana Petroleum. This…
SKF introduced a new model that will help engineers calculate a more realistic bearing rating life. This model will help enable OEMs and end users to match bearings to application conditions with greater certainty, resulting in improved bearing life and reduced operating costs…
In this video, Lundin Petroleum shows the loading of the 16,000-tonne of steel and equipment comprised of both the main deck module and the process module for the Edvard Grieg platform onto barges, that occurred in the last days of March 2015…
Analyses foresee 2015 as being the toughest year for drilling companies since 2009. On the back of falling oil prices, contractors are facing increased pressure as operators shift risks and liabilities, often in contradiction with entrenched industry-accepted allocations…
KrisEnergy encountered oil and gas pay at the Rossukon-3 exploration well in the Gulf of Thailand. Image from KrisEnergy. Rossukon-3 is located in the G6/48 contract area that covers 566sq km over the Karawake basin…
Ceona entered into a joint venture with Seaweld Engineering, which will act as a strategic partner for offshore deepwater construction projects in Ghana. The Ceona Amazon. From Ceona. The…
Lundin’s first development project offshore Malaysia, the Bertam field, is now onstream, with plans to continue with production from remaining wells throughout 2015. Malaysia drilling operations…
The 22,000-tonne topside for the new offshore platform for the Lundin Norway-operated Edvard Grieg field is ready for delivery, in line with the contract awarded three years ago. Image of the Edvard Grieg project…
Cortland Company is opening a new synthetic fiber testing and fabrication facility in Sugar Land, Texas. Cortland's Houston area testing facility. From Cortland. Services from…
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is reviewing Shell's Arctic drilling plans, according to a recent Reuters report. On 31 March, DOI issued a record of decision affirming Shell’s Arctic leases from the Chukchi Sea OCS oil and gas lease sale 193 from 2008…
French vessel operator Bourbon confirmed that three Nigerian crew members were kidnapped off one of its crew boats, the Surfer 1440, offshore Nigeria. Image from Bourbon. In a statement…
The Statoil-operated Gullfaks gas field in the Norwegian Sea will use Nexans' innovative power umbilicals combining power, fiber-optic and hydraulic lines in a single cross section. The cables were handed over to Statoil this month. The…
A new offshore drilling safety rule proposed by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is expected to improve safety offshore in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident five years ago. The proposed rule, 30 CFR Part 250…
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