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Protea completes Total FSO crane package

Jan 11, 2016

Protea has completed the manufacture of a comprehensive crane package for an FSO (floating, storage, and offloading) that will be chartered by Total for operation at the Martin Linge offshore development. Comprising of two deck cranes…

Fugro wins Guyana survey

Dec 22, 2015

Fugro will conduct survey services at a deepwater field development offshore Guyana for ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana, the geophysical service company announced on 22 December. The contract provides for autonomous…

Lundin hits at Rolvsnes

Dec 22, 2015

Lundin Petroleum has discovered oil at the Rolvsnes exploration well 16/1-25 S in PL338C, in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), the company confirmed on 22 December. Lundin said the well encountered a 30m gross oil column in porous granitic basement…

First steel cut on Culzean jackets

Dec 18, 2015

Heerema Fabrication Group has marked the first steel for Maersk Oil's Culzean development jackets at its yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. HFG has contracts for fabricating the central processing facility, utilities and livings quarters and well head platform jackets for the high-pressure…

TPSL, ScottishPower Renewables team up

Dec 18, 2015

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)…

Marathon abandons Solomon in Gulf of Mexico

Dec 03, 2015

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 announces new LWD tool

Dec 01, 2015

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 at Edvard Grieg

Nov 30, 2015

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…

Shell fined £22,500 after leak

Nov 25, 2015

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…

Confidence crisis in North Sea

Nov 26, 2015

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…

Portugal exploration opportunities eyed

Nov 23, 2015

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…

Faroe completes Blane, Enoch acquisition

Nov 06, 2015

Faroe Petroleum has completed an up to US$20 million deal to acquire Roc Oil (GB Holdings), which holds 12.5006% interest in the Blane field and a 12.00% interest in the Enoch field, both in the UK North Sea. Roc Oil GB is a subsidiary of Roc Oil Company…

40-50% of costs need to go

Nov 04, 2015

Some 40-50% of savings or efficiency gains need to be made if the industry is going to survive the low oil price regime we are in, an industry event was told in Aberdeen today.  'For us to survive this long-term, to get by on the oil price as it is…

Hibiscus spuds Sea Lion-1 off Australia

Oct 26, 2015

Hibiscus Petroleum's wholly-owned subsidiary Carnarvon Hibiscus (CHPL) has commenced drilling operations at its Sea Lion-1 exploration well, off the coast of the state of Victoria, in southeast Australia. Not to be confused with Premier Oil's Sea Lion project offshore the Falkland Islands…

Petrobras cancels helicopters

Oct 22, 2015

US-based Era Group’s Brazilian joint venture Aeróleo Taxi Aero received notification from Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) that Petrobras will cancel the ongoing tender process for heavy and medium helicopters, leaving the helicopter with a potential workforce reduction…

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