ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Malaysia Inc. (EMEPMI) announced the startup of the Tapis enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, off the coast of Terengganu, Malaysia, in the South China Sea. Operations began with water-alternating…
The UK's Crown Estate has published its latest report aimed at improving the performance of the offshore wind sector, focusing on the more effective use of jackup vessels to help bring down costs in the maintenance of offshore wind turbines…
Denmark is the European Union’s (EU) only net exporter of oil. The Nordic state’s oil exports totalled approximately 13.7MMboe in 2013. This is in stark contrast to the EU’s only other significant oil producer, the UK, which became a…
VBMS awarded JDR a contract for the Statoil/Statkraft Dudgeon offshore wind farm. Dudgeon, off the UK’s Norfolk coast will utilize over 95km of JDR’s copper core inter-array cable and a range of cable accessories. The design and manufacture…
Statoil announced that the Dilolo-1 exploration well in the Kwanza basin offshore Angola was drilled to its pre-salt target, but failed to find any hydrocarbons. The well is now in the process of being plugged and abandoned. Statoil says…
In order to expand its Brazilian business, Polarcus has teamed up with Sinergeo for the management of Polarcus do Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. With the addition of Marcelo Fonseca and Marcos Gallotti to the company’s management team, Polarcus…
Ecuador formally joined the World Energy Council as a member country last Friday, 22 August. In a ceremony in Quito, hosted by Dr. Esteban Albornoz Vintimilla, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, the World Energy Council formally…
3M added two rescue devices to its personal safety portfolio to help protect people working at height. The 3M and DEUS Escape and Rescue Systemenable workers to steadily control their descent from heights up to 590ft. The easy-to-use…
Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center raised the likelihood for a below-normal season in last week’s update to the Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook. Image…
Pacific Drilling’s ultra deepwater Pacific Sharav began its five-year drilling contract for Chevron on 27 August 2014. The contract is estimated to be worth more than US$1 billion, bringing Pacific Drilling’s total contract backlog as of 22 June 2012…
Suncor Energy resumed production at the Terra Nova oil field, located approximately 350km southeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, the company reported on 3 September 2014. Production resumed following planned maintenance on the field’s FPSO facility…
Cabotage is trade or navigation in coastal waters and traditionally refers to shipping along coastal routes, transporting passengers or goods from port to port in the same country. Laws governing cabotage serve to protect local industries…
Martin Landro won the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s (NPD) IOR award for his work on developing 4D seismic for mapping, production management and monitoring of reservoirs. Landro is a geophysics professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology…
Lagos-based Star Deep Water Petroleum signed a contract extension for Pacific Drilling’s Pacific Bora. The Pacific Bora is currently drilling offshore Nigeria. The contract extension increases the drillship’s backlog by approximately US$439 million…
Claudio Paschoa takes a look at Ceona’s vertical pipelay vessel, Polar Oynx, now serving Petrobras offshore Brazil. Polar Onyx in the Storfjord in Norway. Photo from Norsk Skipsfarts Forum. With…
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