Spanish yard Dragados Offshore and Norway’s Kvaerner Verdal have won the latest construction contracts on the Johan Sverdrup mega-project. Statoil, operator on the multi-million dollar development, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…
The US Department of the Interior announced it will cancel two planned Arctic offshore lease sales under the US government’s current five-year plan for 2012-2017 due to Shell’s failed Arctic campaign and current market conditions, which left…
In 2016, Bruce Clement will step down from his position as managing director and CEO of AWE Ltd., after five and a half years of being in the role. Image of Clement. From AWE. According to AWE…
Mexican state owned company Pemex this morning announced it had evacuated the Sihil-A platform in the Bay of Campache, offshore Mexico, in the latest of a string of incidents offshore Mexico this year. The firm said the measure was taken…
More than 40 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II have been safely detonated or removed from the Norfolk coast, having been discovered on the export cable route for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm. Image…
As part of President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Sally Jewell, US secretary of the Interior and Abigail Ross Hopper, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) director…
Fugro has integrated and rebranded its geotechnical companies under the name Fugro GeoServices Ltd. The renaming completes the integration of Fugro Seacore, Fugro Engineering Services, EM Drilling, Fugro Loadtest, Fugro Instrumentation & Monitoring and Fugro Aperio…
Low oil prices, falling investment and the need to transform the UK exploration and production sector were high on the agenda at SPE Offshore Europe. Elaine Maslin reflects. A packed plenary session during SPE Offshore Europe 2015…
In this video, Norwegian giant Statoil shows the installation of its largest-ever built jacket for one of its project, the Mariner project. The steel jacket for Statoil’s Mariner platform on the UK Continental Shelf has now been placed on the field…
DONG Energy signed an agreement to divest 50% of the 330 MW German offshore wind construction project, Gode Wind 1, to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for a total of approximately US$884 million (€ 780 million), which will be paid in the period 2015 to 2016…
Primeline Energy Holdings announced that its drilling contractor China Oilfield Service (COSL) started the mobilization of the rig for the drilling operation of LS23-1-1 well, in the East China Sea. Following the signing of the drilling…
Brazil’s National Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels agency (ANP) has approved registrations for a total of 37 companies for the country’s 13th bid round, of which 22 are from outside of Brazil. Image from ANP's Facebook…
Japan's MODEC has made its first entry into the North Sea thanks to a contract with Denmark's Maersk Oil. Maersk Oil's UK North Sea business has inked a contract with MODEC for the supply of a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel for the US$4…
ABB installed the world's most powerful offshore converter platform, the DolWin2, in the North Sea by ABB, with a transmission capacity that can power more than 1 million households with clean wind energy. The 320-kilovolt converter station…
Sweden’s ABB has won a US$90 million contract to supply a two-cable high-voltage system to power, from shore, for Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup field. The move paves the way for the entire Johan Sverdrup field to be powered from shore, as well as other fields on Norway’s Utsira High…
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