Proserv will present a series of global workshops to demonstrate Proserv’s Artemis 2G (A2G). A2G is Proserv’s next generation subsea electronics module for control and monitoring communications that recently resulted in a successful event held in Houston…
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the COSLInnovator mobile drilling facility for production drilling on the Troll field using the controlled mud level method. The consent covers the use of COSLInnovator for production drilling on 8½in…
Singapore-based Pioneer Marine awarded Wärtsilä a contract to supply 22 bulk carriers under construction at Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding Co. in China, with ballast water management systems. 44 Wärtsilä…
State-run China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) issued an exploration tender inviting foreign oil companies to bid for 33 oil and gas blocks. The gas blocks cover an area of 126,108sq km off east and southern China. CNOOC says…
ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Malaysia Inc. (EMEPMI) announced the startup of the Tapis enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, off the coast of Terengganu, Malaysia, in the South China Sea. Operations began with water-alternating…
Oilfield services company, Expro, plans to open a major new base in Tananger, Norway in summer 2015. The 19,000sq m facility will consolidate the company’s three current Stavanger area locations and house Expro’s Well Testing and Drill…
Statoil is ceasing production on its Huldra platform today (September 3), the company announced. Huldra is the first gravity-based Statoil-operated installation in the North Sea to be shut down permanently. The platform, in production license (PL) 051/052…
EMAS AMC has a new frame agreement with Apache North Sea for subsea construction in the UK North Sea. The awarded frame agreement includes pipeline construction, umbilical/cable lay, structure installation and other related offshore construction services…
Statoil announced that the Dilolo-1 exploration well in the Kwanza basin offshore Angola was drilled to its pre-salt target, but failed to find any hydrocarbons. The well is now in the process of being plugged and abandoned. Statoil says…
Two years in the making, Aker Solutions and Baker Hughes’ subsea production alliance was rubber-stamped by the regulatory authorities last week. The alliance, which brings together two companies that might not be seen as natural bed-fellows…
Operating costs have been listed as the critical “change issue” by the offshore industry, according to research at this week’s ONS 2014 in Stavanger. A Lloyd’s Register Energy survey of exhibitors at ONS 2014 revealed more than 44% of…
In order to expand its Brazilian business, Polarcus has teamed up with Sinergeo for the management of Polarcus do Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. With the addition of Marcelo Fonseca and Marcos Gallotti to the company’s management team, Polarcus…
Aberdeenshire-based Bibby Offshore is adding to its international expansion with the opening of an office in Stavanger, Norway. Bibby Offshore is currently participating in a number of projects in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The…
Norway's oil industry has been warned by Anne Myhrvold, director-general of the country's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), against making cost cuts and savings at the expense of safety. “I’m convinced it’s possible to look after safety in a good way while also cutting costs…
Less than a week after its CEO Helge Lund called for the industry to develop a Lego-approach Statoil has announced it is working with DNV GL to introduce an international industry standard for subsea process technology. Lund was speaking at the ONS 2014 exhibition and conference in Stavanger…
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