Subsea 7 has signed a contract with Royal IHC to design and build a new, high-specification reel lay vessel capable of installing complex rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems. IHC says that, based on the ratio between top pipe tension and payload to displacement…
Advisory firm Glass Lewis has recommended that Ensco plc shareholders vote “FOR” the US$839 million proposed all-stock transaction with Atwood Oceanics at the company’s upcoming general meeting of shareholders on 5 October 2017. “…we…
CEFC China Energy is set to buy a 14.16% stake of state-owned Russian oil firm Rosneft in a US$9.1 billion deal with the consortium of Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). Image from Rosneft…
The one biggest challenge facing the industry – apart from trying to make it profitable – is attracting new young talent, says the former CEO of North Sea independent Premier Oil. Nigel Wilson, who left Premier Oil in 2015, and is now…
The Snøhvit gas field produces back to the Hammerfest LNG plant at Melkøya. Photo from Statoil/ Harald Pettersen. With a new phase in Barents Sea developments on the way, plus strong drilling activity…
Apache has brought its Callater North Sea subsea tieback on stream ahead of schedule. Discovered in 2015, Callater, a six-well slot bundle tieback to the Beryl Alpha facility. It was among three fields, including Seagull and Corona…
BP has started production from five of its seven major projects for the year, as the supermajor confirmed that the Juniper project offshore Trinidad, and Woodside Energy’s Persephone offshore Australia are both online. Juniper…
SBM Offshore revealed that it has inked a deal for its Fast4Ward standardization program, signing a contract in June for the first newbuild hull with China Shipbuilding Trading Co. (CSTC) and the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) shipyard…
BP is on track to start up its Juniper project off Trinidad in the coming weeks, and bring Eni’s Zohr online offshore Egypt by the end of 2017. The supermajor was hopeful in its Q2 2017 earnings call, announcing the possibly of having final…
Shell is buying the deepest floating production unit in the world, the Turritella floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in a US$1 billion cash deal that will allow the supermajor to assume operatorship of the entire Stones development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico…
Royal Dutch Shell encountered hydrocarbons in the initial Whale exploration well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble Globetrotter I. Image from Huisman. The well was safety…
Cantium has taken over US supermajor Chevron’s Bay Marchand and Main Pass assets in the Gulf of Mexico. The takeover includes five fields located on the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and in Louisiana state waters…
Karen Boman assesses the market for West African oil and gas projects, and profiles Total’s Moho Nord development offshore Congo. The tension leg platform and Likouf FPU at the Moho Nord field…
Karen Boman charts Chevron’s success at its large Jack/St. Malo development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, a project that was sanctioned just prior to the downturn. McDermott’s North Ocean 102 at work…
First oil from the US$2.5 billion Kraken floating heavy oil development in the UK North Sea has been announced. The Kraken development, about 125km east of the Shetland Islands, off Scotland, is due to comprise a total 25 wells (14…
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