Atlantis Resources and ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) are teaming up to develop a joint portfolio of projects for the growing tidal sector, announced Atlantis. Atlantis’s Scottish project development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL)…
Image from Jumbo. Jumbo's J-class vessels Jumbo Jubilee and Fairpartner were scheduled to transport 16 piles to Shell's Prelude field, site of the world's first FLNG vessel, off the coast of northwest Australia…
Noble Energy received the green light from the Israeli government on 17 December, to move forward with the development of Leviathan and the Tamar expansion, despite a last attempt from the Israeli Forum for the Protection of the Coastline that petitioned the High Court to not approve the plan…
Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) granted approval to partners Guarantee Petroleum, Sirius Petroleum, and Owena Oil & Gas to drill the proposed Ororo-2A well on the Ororo Field offshore Nigeria. The Ororo Field is located within OML 95…
Chevron is planning a 24% reduction in its 2016 capital and exploratory investment program to US$26.6 billion, compared to 2015’s $35 billion. Chevron's Big Foot in the GoM. Image from Chevron…
A total of 26 oil and gas companies applied for rights to explore acreage in the Norwegian and Barents Seas in Norway’s 23rd licensing round this week. This year’s licensing round comprises of 57 announced blocks or parts of blocks, of…
Houston-based Marathon Oil's Solomon exploration well in the US Gulf of Mexico has been plugged and abandoned after not encountering its lower tertiary target interval. The well reached its total depth of approximately 34,600ft on Walker Ridge Block 225…
Weatherford International has announced the development of the HeatWave Extreme service for commercial use by Chevron Thailand. The HeatWave Extreme service includes a logging-while-drilling (LWD) tool string capable of withstanding temperatures of up to 410˚F (210˚C)…
First oil started from the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian North Sea 28 November 2015. The Edvard Grieg field is part of PL338 on the Utsira High in the North Sea, about 180 km west of Stavanger. The development comprises a steel jacket platform and 22…
Oil major Shell has been fined £22,500 after admitting failures that led to an oil leak in the North Sea. The leak, the biggest in a decade in the North Sea, was discovered on 10 August 2011, when oil was spotted on the sea surface near Shell’s Gannet F field…
TGS is reprocessing some 22,847km of 2D seismic offshore Portugal thanks to success in the conjugate offshore Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. This project, which uses TGS' broadband solution Clari-Fi, is now fully underway, said the firm…
The confidence of North Sea oil and gas contractors is at an all-time low, according to a new industry report released today. Four in five contractors (79%) surveyed say they are less confident in their prospects than a year ago, compared to just 1% that are more confident…
SBM Offshore received a formal invitation from Brazilian giant Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to tender for the Sépia and Libra floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs). Brasa shipyard…
Norway's Det Norske has bought UK-based independent explorer Premier Oil's Norwegian assets for US$120 million, just a month after agreeing to buy Svenksa Petroleum for $75 million. The Premier Oil assets include the Vette development…
Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has declared Sépia Leste in the Santos basin pre-salt area to be commercial with an estimated 130 MMboe recoverable resources, offshore Rio de Janeiro. Map of the Sépia field…