Paris-headquartered subsea and engineering house Technip has come out of Q1 2016 with a better than expected profit, but its CEO expects front end market activity to remain damp until late-2016, early 2017. Meanwhile, Subsea 7 has seen…
Kory Kinney, of IHS, takes a look at some of the projects underway in the US Gulf of Mexico. As we move through 2016, construction activity in the US Gulf of Mexico has begun dwindling…
Scanning the newspapers, social media and analyst coverage this year, there is consensus that a recovery in oil prices is coming, as a function of a reduction in over-supply, and that we should expect upward movement in prices later this year…
Interocean Marine Services have been awarded a five-year contract by Maersk Oil North Sea UK for the provision of rig move and marine technical support services. The work will be managed by Interocean’s head office in Aberdeen, and will…
Byron Energy will further its efforts at the SM71-1 well in the Gulf of Mexico after encountering the presence of oil in three intervals, according to partner Otto Energy. A quad combo porosity logging run has been acquired and 7 5/8in…
Quest Offshore assesses the drilling, subsea, and marine construction dynamics affecting of one of the world’s pre-eminent deepwater basins amid the downturn. The Gulf of Mexico has long been a region of critical importance to the global deepwater industry…
Cyprus-based Ocean Rig has stepped in to buy the sixth generation ultra-deepwater (UDW) drillship Cerrado, which once drilled the giant Libra prospect offshore Brazil, following its owner Brazil-based Schahin Group bankruptcy declaration last April…
US supermajor Chevron has taken a big fall in Q1 2016, reporting a loss of US$725 million, compared to earnings of $2.6 billion in the same period last year. Image of Jack/St. Malo, from Chevron…
Oil major BP has posted a replacement cost loss of US$485 million in Q1 2016, compared with a profit of $2.1 billion a year ago, as it battles the continuing low oil prices. Yet, the firm is set to see production levels lifted as a string of new projects come onstream through 2016-2017…
PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH) has been awarded long term charters for eight offshore supply vessels with a combined value of approximately US$167.5 million by a Middle Eastern national oil company. POSH will supply eight anchor-handling…
Norwegian independent Det Norske has agreed to buy Centrica Resources Norge's operated stakes in the Frigg Gamma Delta and Rind discoveries in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Subject to the deal being agreed by regulatory authorities…
Oil services giant Schlumberger has laid off 2000 employees as the company reports one of its steepest revenue declines since the downturn began, citing global activity decline and disruption that has reached unprecedented levels. Image…
Increased production from Chevron's high-pressure, high-temperature Erskine field has helped boost profits and reserves for UK independent Serica Energy. The firm acquired an 17% stake in the field, at a time when it was expected to produce 2100 boe/d net to Serica at $30/bbl operating costs…
Byron Energy has encountered three discrete hydrocarbon bearing intervals at its latest exploration development in the South Marsh Island block in the Gulf of Mexico. Hercules 205 jackup, from Hercules…
Centrica plc will reduce its workforce by 3000 jobs this year, with the first 800 jobs to be cut in the first three months, in efforts to cut costs by more than US$1 billion (£750 million) per year. The job cuts are most likely to hit British Gas…
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