Tidal energy developer, Oceanflow Energy, has attracted a £300,000 package of support to further develop and commercialise its second generation tidal energy device, Evopod. The company has developed and patented a technology to generate electricity from tidal streams and ocean currents…
Colombia’s offshore is not as widely explored as its conventional onshore space. The country, which has many resources including coal bed methane and even shale, is making a bigger push for offshore exploration. Colombia’s Vice Minister of Energy for the Ministry of Mines and Energy…
A striking comment was made by the head of CNR International at a breakfast briefing in Aberdeen this week. James Edens, VP and Managing Director at CNR International (UK), said UK North Sea production in 2013 was 1.43MM boe/d—the lowest it had been since 1977…
Endeavour International Corp announced that the valve in the Rochelle field that had been stuck in the 'shut' position is now open, and production is expected to re-start in the next few days. Following the tie-in of the East Rochelle E2 well…
All Coast LLC, the largest liftboat operator in the Gulf of Mexico, has entered into a contract with SEMCO, LLC to construct a new 250 foot leg liftboat which will be equipped with two 175 ton leg mounted cranes and will have the capacity of accommodating 50 people…
Petrobras Colombia Ltd. will drill the Orca prospect in the Tayrona-1 (Tayrona Occidental) block off Colombia's Caribbean coast in 2Q 2014. The company will move a rig from Brazil to spud the Orca-1 exploration well in water about 600m deep off the Guajira peninsula…
Apache Corporation announced several changes to its executive organization, including the retirement of the firm's president: Roger Plank, president and chief corporate officer, has elected to retire. Alfonso Leon, senior vice president and chief of staff…
Houston-based Helix Energy Solutions is to provide Petrobras with well intervention services for a minimum four years, using two new-build vessels. The two new monohull vessels, being built at the Flensburger shipyard in Germany for Norway’s…
Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. has agreed to acquire ALP Maritime Services B.V., a Netherlands-based provider of long-haul ocean towage and offshore installation services to the global offshore oil and gas industry. ALP currently provides…
On 30 Jan 2014, House Government Bill C-22 was introduced in the second session of Canada's 41st Parliament, amending the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act for, among other matters, new requirements for regulatory preauthorization of…
Operator Statoil is to use Technip for intervention services on its Åsgard subsea compression project in the Norwegian Sea. The Åsgard field lies on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, about 200km off Norway. TheÅsgard subsea compression…
After a half-year hiatus, exploration and production in the Siri area has recommenced. DONG Energy reconnected the Siri Knutsen to three of the Siri area’s four oil fields on 28 January 2014, offshore Denmark. The Nini East field delivered first oil on 4 February 2014…
Despite record levels of UKCS investment during 2013, the year proved to be disappointing both in terms of exploration and appraisal drilling activity and to a lesser extent the acquisition and divestments market. UKCS Drilling Levels 32…
A US court ruling has put a key document supporting oil major Shell's Chukchi Sea drilling in doubt. Over one partial objection, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (CA9, panel based in San Francisco) ruled that selection by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management…
London-listed oil and gas industry service provider Petrofac has placed the first long-lead orders for its new in-house-designed deepwater derrick lay vessel, to be built at the Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd (ZPMC) yard in China…
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