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North Sea HPHT order for Plexus

Nov 24, 2014

Engineering services firm Plexus Holdings has received a £1.9 million purchase order from a major oil and gas operator to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for a gas and condensate exploration well in the UK North Sea…

DNV GL gets Culzean contract

Nov 21, 2014

Maersk Oil North Sea UK (MOUK) awarded DNV GL a multi-million dollar contract for the Culzean field development project. The Culzean project rendering. From KBR.   Upon the terms of agreement…

Statoil drops out of Kwanza

Nov 21, 2014

Statoil is paying US$350 million to take a “time-out” in its Kwanza exploration drilling program offshore Angola. The Stena Carron. From Stena Drilling.   The Norwegian giant decided…

Lundin bites dust on Kitabu-1

Nov 18, 2014

Lundin Petroleum’s Kitabu-1 exploration well, in Blocks SB307/SB30, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, came up dry, the Swedish independent announced on 18 November. Lundin said that the primary reservoir interval contained poor quality siltstone…

Santos GLNG completes first gas processing hub

Nov 05, 2014

Santos GLNG completed the first of its three major gas processing hubs in its Queensland gas fields, in Australia. Image of Santos GLNG 's largest gas hub. From Santos GLNG.   The hub…

Van Oord wins Shell Gabon EPC contract

Nov 11, 2014

Shell Gabon awarded Van Oord an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the replacement of a dual 10km long oil export line. The EPC contract began this month and continues until summer 2015. The export line runs from the Gamba terminal…

Vallourec gets tubulars contract for UDW Angola

Nov 14, 2014

Vallourec has received a contract to supply premium tubes and connections for the ultra-deepwater Kaombo field off Angola, operated by TOTAL E&P Angola. As part of this contract, Vallourec will supply 27,000 tons of OCTG (oil country…

Total: Kashagan production to resume by 2017

Nov 11, 2014

Production could resume as early as 2016 for the Kashagan oil and gas project off Kazakhstan following the replacement of pipeline infrastructure, Total’s President of Exploration and Production Arnaud Breuillac told Bloomberg. Production…

GE opens Brazilian subsea research center

Nov 13, 2014

GE opened its US$500 million Brazil Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro. The research hub will focus on developing advanced technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and production. The center, GE’s first in Latin America…

ConocoPhillips comes up dry in Angola

Nov 04, 2014

ConocoPhillips is plugging and abandoning the Kamoxi-1 exploration well as a dry hole after drilling to a total depth of 22,660ft, offshore Angola. Kwanza basin activity. From Deloitte Petroview Kamoxi…

Atkins wins ADMA-OPCO contract

Nov 09, 2014

Atkins has been awarded two contracts by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) for structural analysis services worth over US$3 million.  The work will support ADMA-OPCO’s expansion program for its offshore production facilities…

Exova opens new Aberdeen facility

Nov 06, 2014

Testing, calibration and advisory services provider Exova Group has opened a new, purpose-built facility in Aberdeen in response to increasing demand for mission-critical testing in the oil and gas sector. Officially launched by Malcolm Webb…

Oil & Gas UK says the time to act on fiscal reform is now

Nov 06, 2014

Following evidence submitted to the Treasury for its recent consultation on the North Sea tax regime, Oil & Gas UK has this week made a further representation, repeating calls for urgent reform in light of escalating industry costs and the falling oil price…

ME: Aging assets add to growth

Nov 09, 2014

Aging assets and a push to develop more offshore assets is helping to make the Middle East a growth area and push research into CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery, according to Prajeev Rasiah, regional manager, Middle East & India, DNV GL – Oil & Gas (pictured)…

BP eyeing major new Clair facilities

Nov 06, 2014

BP is assessing a further phase development on its west of Shetland Clair field, which could see another new, large central processing facility built in the field.  The move will seek widely spread areas of the estimated 7-8 billion barrel oil originally in place Clair field…

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