Bids from Russia’s Gazprom and China’s China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have been included in the latest licensing round offshore Tanzania. The 4th Deep Offshore and North Lake Tanganyika Licensing Round closed on May 15…
Petrobras announced today that it has confirmed the Sagitario well discovery (formally 1-SPS-98 / 1-BRSA-1063 -SPS) initially announced 25 February 2013 while in the drilling phase. Located in the ultra-deepwater presalt area of the Santos basin…
The Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association’s European Chapter (ICoTA) will examine the role of wireless communication technology and its benefits in well intervention at its next lunch and learn session on 20 May. The presentation,…
Alimak Hek Group AB is buying the offshore operations of Heis-Tek, a Norwegian specialized traction elevator company, focused on tailored vertical access solutions to the oil and gas industry. “This acquisition will allow us to become…
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announced at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston that it has started a study into a new ultra large V-class Heavy Marine Transport Vessel (HTV). Dockwise Vanguard, which came into service early 2013…
Emerson Process Management has today announced the successful first deployment of its Roxar Downhole Wireless PT Sensor System. The new instrument has been deployed as part of the completion on Statoil’s Skuld field in the Norwegian North Sea…
Craig International Supplies (CIS) has been awarded new contracts with Shell which will almost double the turnover of its business. The contracts will increase the international reach and buying power of the procurement division of Scottish family-owned energy services and shipping firm…
GE Oil & Gas announced today a technology collaboration with Mexico Institute of Petroleum (IMP) and Mexico state-owned company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Pemex sponsors the agreement, which GE Oil & Gas said would “initially [research]…
UK-based subsea services firm Reef Subsea is to split up into three independent companies after its January buyout by Norwegian private equity outfit Hitecvision. The three new companies will be Reef Subsea, X-Subsea, and Technocean Subsea…
Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya Austin speaking at CERAWeek 2014. Photo by Audrey Leon/OE. Mexico’s road to passing recent energy reforms was forged by much needed collaboration in order to fix the country’s productivity growth…
Irish oil and gas exploration firm Providence Resources has been offered a follow-on Frontier License (FEL) on the Newgrange area. Newgrange lies in about 1000m water depth in the Goban Spur basin, 260 km off the south west coast of Ireland…
Offshore grouting contractor FoundOcean has secured two contracts on the Solan oil field development west of the Shetland in the North Sea. The contracts, with Heerema Marine Contractors and Bibby Offshore,& cover structural grouting on the 8000-tonne Solan platform jacket and its 300…
Shell and its partners on the Ormen Lange license have postponed plans for a ground-breaking compression project on the giant field, halting ongoing concept select work, citing costs and reservoir data. Ormen Lange, Norway’s second largest field and producing since October 2007…
A third well is now producing in the Sapinhoá field, Petrobras announced, in keeping with the target date given when its preceding well was brought onstream in February. Well 7-SPH-04-SPS, which lays in 2120m of water on Block BM-S-9 of the Santos basin presalt region…
Noble Energy and EMAS have signed a letter of agreement (LOA) for installation work on Noble's Gunflint project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The agreement calls for EMAS’ Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, to perform the offshore installation of pipelines…