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Lekoil starts 3D shoot off Nigeria

Mar 27, 2014

Nigeria-based Lekoil provided an update on activities in oil prospecting license (OPL) 310 offshore Nigeria. OPL 310 contains the Ogo discovery announced last year. The Polarcus vessel MV Polarcus Nadia has started the 3D seismic program…

Nexans cables on Shah Deniz

Mar 27, 2014

Nexans' Direct Electrical Heating (DEH) cable systems will be installed to help maintain the reliable flow of products from the Shah Deniz  field, located in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. The world's largest DEH project to…

Getting risk management right

Mar 27, 2014

Getting offshore risk management wrong can prove disastrous, but how easy is it to get it right?  Insurance professional Robert Armstrong is hoping to demystify some of the issues in a talk organised by Aberdeen’s SPE Young Professionals on 2 April…

Latest Johan Sverdrup wells complete

Mar 27, 2014

Lundin Petroleum has completed two successful appraisal wells 16/3-8 S and 16/3-8 S T2, on the Johan Sverdrup discovery. Appraisal well 16/3-8 S, on the Avaldsnes High, was drilled about 4km southeast of discovery well 16/2-6 and about 3km west of appraisal well 16/3-4…

Repsol, Indra put heads together for leak detection system

Mar 26, 2014

Repsol and Indra have jointly developed a water-based hydrocarbon leak early detection system, the companies announced on 26 March 2014. The system, called HEADS (Hydrocarbon Early Automatic Detection System) has successfully completed testing at the Repsol Industrial Complex in Tarragon…

MWCC opens new US shore bases

Mar 26, 2014

Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) announced the completion of two new shore base locations to house its well containment equipment available for use in the US Gulf of Mexico. In addition, this year marks the three-year anniversary of…

Myanmar announces offshore winners

Mar 26, 2014

The government of Myanmar (Burma) has  named Chevron, BG Group, Statoil, Woodside Energy, Shell, and ENI, among others, as selected candidates for its 2013 offshore licensing round. The move follows the lifting of Western sanctions in 2012…

Kraken on track

Mar 26, 2014

North Sea independent EnQuest plans to spend about US$1 billion on new projects in 2014, including about $400 million on the Kraken FPSO development. A further $200 million will be spend on the Alma/Galia development, due on stream in H2 this year…

Lamprell eyeing LNG and FPSOs

Mar 26, 2014

Middle East rig builder Lamprell has moved into the black, posting a profit. But, the firm warned that recent new order intake means 2014 and 2015 revenues could be lower than expected.  The Dubai-based firm, which initiated a strategic review and appointed a new CEO and CFO last year…

Seaway inks Dutch yard space

Mar 26, 2014

Seaway Heavy Lifting signed a contract with Rhenus Logistics which will give it its own offshore yard facilities, warehouse and quayside on the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam (pictured) for 10 years. The contract, with Rhenus Logistics, started 1 March 2014…

BP and Total back Viper

Mar 25, 2014

Viper Subsea has signed a joint industry project (JIP) agreement with energy giants BP and Total  to further develop its Subsea Line Insulation Monitoring (V-SLIM) technology for identifying and locating cable and connector faults in remote subsea electrical distribution systems…

Texas A&M's Harte Institute

Mar 25, 2014

An in-depth look at the Harte Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University's Corpus Christi campus.

Helix Well Ops gets larger facility

Mar 25, 2014

Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (Well Ops), a business unit of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (Helix ESG), has moved to a new location in Dyce, Aberdeen. The firm took on a six-year lease of the 27,682sq ft building. This is double the space it previously occupied at Helix House…

Cubility bought by Triton Partners

Mar 25, 2014

Norwegian oil services technology firm Cubility AS has been bought from private equity firm Energy Ventures by a Triton Partners fund. The firm, based in Sandnes, has developed MudCube, a solids control and waste management system for drilling operations…

Engineering challenges discussed

Mar 25, 2014

The challenges associated with the analysis and design of offshore engineering equipment will be discussed at the next SPE talk in Aberdeen. Offshore marine equipment can be physically complex, expensive, safety critical and required to operate in harsh environments…

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