SBM Offshore has completed the divestment of a 13.5% ownership interest in FPSO Sepetiba, deployed at Petrobras’ Mero field offshore Brazil, to China Merchants Financial Leasing (Hong Kong) Holding Co (CMFL).SBM Offshore is operator of the FPSO…
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has secured an inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) contract from Vår Energi for Goliat and Balder fields offshore Norway.The scope of work, scheduled for 2025, also includes additional light construction work to be completed within the same year…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted OKEA a drilling permit for a new wildcat well at Brage field in the North Sea.The permit is for a wellbore 31/4-A-23 F in production license 055.OKEA is the operator of the license with 35.2% stake…
Norway's largest oilfield Johan Sverdrup is expected to come off its production plateau early next year, operator Equinor said on Thursday.The field hit record daily output of more than 756,000 barrels of oil per day in September, equivalent to some 6%-7% of Europe's daily oil consumption…
The floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit Almirante Tamandaré, built by SBM Offshore, has arrived to Brazil ahead of installation at Petrobras’ Búzios field in the Santos Basin.The Almirante Tamandaré FPSO has been built with the capacity to produce 225…
A rig is due to arrive at Egypt's Zohr gas field in December to restart drilling work, with the aim of producing 220 million cubic feet per day from two wells, Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi told a press conference on Wednesday.Egypt plans to increase oil and gas exploration works in 2025…
Oil and gas company Energean has lifted the second oil train for its floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit operating in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel.The post-lift, installation and commissioning activities are expected to take up to six months to complete…
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV’s) have been introduced as efficient tools for subsea pipeline inspections. It has also been demonstrated that AUVs can be used to perform contactless and continuous electric field measurements of the Cathodic Protection (CP) systems along pipelines…
Egypt's president met with Eni CEO on Monday to discuss moves aimed at supporting gas production, the Italian energy group said after the African country was forced to turn to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market to cover domestic demand.The…
Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil) has issued the Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the Shelf Drilling Barsk jack-up rig, which can now proceed to start operations with Equinor on the Sleipner Vest field, off Norway.Earlier in 2024…
Oil and gas company BW Energy has signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) for the exploration blocks Niosi Marin and Guduma Marin offshore Gabon, in partnership with Panoro Energy and VAALCO Energy.The blocks, formerly named G12-13 and H12-13…
Norwegian oil firm Aker BP, partly owned by BP, on Wednesday reported a bigger-than-expected decline in third-quarter operating profit, but said its full-year output would be in the upper-half of its forecast.The group's profit before interest and tax fell to $1…
Norwegian subsea services firm Reach Subsea has brought in TotalEnergies to its Reach Remote uncrewed surface vessel (USV) qualification program, which joins Equinor and other industry majors as partner in the pilot program.The pilot project includes a variety of relevant survey…
Offshore seismic services specialist Shearwater Geoservices has secured its second contract from TotalEnergies for an Angolan ocean bottom node (OBN) project.The three-month deepwater OBN survey at B20/11 covering the Golfinho and Cameia fields…
Norwegian cleantech service provider Soiltech has secured a contract from Equinor to provide solid waste handling of drill cuttings on Equinor’s Statfjord B platform in the North Sea.Soiltech will install its solutions for handling of the drill…