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Pacific Sharav begins GOM work for Chevron

Oct 17, 2014

The deepwater drillship Pacific Sharav arrived in Keathley Canyon to begin work for Chevron. The drillship is the fifth for Chevron to work in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. According to data from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management…

CNOOC begins drilling second Beibu well

Oct 07, 2014

CNOOC Ltd. began drilling the WZ12-10-2 well, the second and last of the two-well project in the Beibu Gulf Block 22/12, offshore China. Beibu map. From Horizon Oil. The exploration well is located 1…

Enegi eyes Phoenix options

Oct 09, 2014

UK exploration independent Enegi says the Phoenix discovery in the central North Sea is a viable candidate for its marginal field initiative. Phoenix, in Block 22/12b, was operated by Apache. In 2010, Apache, drilled the 22/12a-12 appraisal well…

Heerema wins Maersk Culzean contract

Oct 15, 2014

Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. awarded Heerema Hartlepool Ltd. a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Culzean development’s well head platform (WHP) jacket. Maersk’s proposed Culzean development…

TDW conducts subsea pipeline pressure isolation

Oct 13, 2014

T.D. Williamson (TDW) carried out a subsea pipeline pressure isolation that protected divers during a wye installation in the Gulf of Mexico. The installation was of a piggable wye to tie-in a new deepwater oil and gas system in the GoM…

Shell begins Gumusut-Kakap off Malaysia

Oct 08, 2014

Shell began its first deepwater development in Malaysia with the Gumusut-Kakap floating platform. Shell's Gumusut-Kakap. From Shell.   The Gumusut-Kakap field is off the coast of Malaysia…

DNV GL releasing data to enhance CO2 pipeline design

Oct 07, 2014

The DNV GL-led CO2PIPETRANS joint industry project (JIP) is releasing new data that will focus on the transportation component of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) projects, to enhance the design of CO2 pipelines. DNV GL is…

Total shoots for capital discipline

Sep 22, 2014

Total's production should grow to about 2.8MMboe/d in 2017, as 15 major projects start-up in the period from now, the French super major said today (22 September). But, strict capital discipline will also be key, in addition to selling an additional US$10 billion of assets in 2015-17…

Sevan suffers utilization rate drop

Oct 06, 2014

Sevan Drilling and Cosco (Qidong) Offshore have agreed to extend a standstill agreement over the building of the deepwater, cylindrical drillship Sevan Developer to 4Q. The move, which follows an initial standstill agreement, made on September 22…

Tidal project signs power purchase agreement

Sep 29, 2014

Tidal Energy, the developer of DeltaStream, Wales’ first full-scale tidal power generator, has agreed a power purchase deal with EDF Energy, which will make its project one of the first grid-connected demonstration devices to generate green…

Emerson offers injection control app

Sep 09, 2014

Emerson Process Management released an injection control application designed for the FloBoss 107 flow computer and ROC800-Series remote operations controller designed to accurately measure and control water or steam delivered to injection wells…

DSM inks mooring contract with Repsol

Sep 24, 2014

Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has secured a contract to provide a range of mooring services for Repsol's drilling operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Under the contract, DSM will provide marine engineering services and deliver the mooring equipment…

BOW gets piece of Pieter Schelte

Sep 30, 2014

The test frame for Allseas’ mega-vessel Pieter Schelte arrived at BOW Terminal in Vlissingen. The En Avant 20 tugging the test frame. From Muller. Volker Staal en Funderingen (VSF) awarded…

Noreco facing uncertainty after write-downs and resignations

Oct 01, 2014

Norwegian exploration and production firm Noreco is facing uncertainty after its chairman resigned with immediate effect as the firm deals with significant write-downs on reserves at key production assets.   Noreco says, according to updated reservoir modeling by operator Dong Energy…

Hydro Deck begins module offloading for Ichthys

Sep 26, 2014

Australia’s AG&P ALE Ventures deployed the Hydro Deck to deliver the first modules to the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project. Over the course of the project, the Hydro Deck will offload more than 200 large, pre-fabricated modules from sea to ground…

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