Tenaris is now the sole owner of Socotherm Brasil, having bought out Socotherm America's 50% share. The Socotherm Brasil coating facility, located beside the Confab welded pipes mill in Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, was previously managed in partnership by Tenaris and ShawCor…
P&O Maritime, a subsidiary of Dubai-based global marine terminal operator DP World, has acquired a majority stake in Remolcadores de Puerto y Altura S.A. (Repasa), a Spanish operator of offshore support vessels. P&O and Repasa will form a new joint-venture company under the P&O Maritime brand…
Continental Energy has reached an agreement for the sale of its 51% shareholding stake in Visionaire Energy (VEN) to Norway's Visionaire Invest for consideration of US$1.2 million. VEN is a holding company which owns a 49% equity interest…
Eni has discovered oil in Block 15/06, in the Ochigufu exploration prospect offshore Angola. ENI said the find was 'important' and would be fast tracked to production through the Ngoma floating production, storage and offloading vessel on the company's West Hub development…
UK-listed exploration firm San Leon Energy has acquired additional intersts offshore Morocco from from Petromaroc Corporation, previously known as Longreach Oil and Gas. San Leon has acquired Petromaroc’s 1.5% net working interest in the Sidi Moussa licence…
Ophir Energy's Silenus East-1 well in Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea (central west Africa), has made a gas discovery - and helped support plans for an expanded FLNG project for the area. Nick Cooper, Ophir's CEO, says the additional…
Aqualis Offshore, part of Aqualis, has signed a three-year rig moving services contract with Saudi Aramco for the firm's jackups in the Arabian Gulf. Aqualis Offshore will support Saudi Aramco with rig moving services and personnel from Aqualis Offshore’s offices in the Middle East region…
Australian supply chain logistics group Brambles is to acquire Aberdeenshire-based Ferguson Group for an enterprise value of £320 million (US$545 million) expanding its container business. Ferguson Group provides container solutions to the offshore oil and gas sector…
Atlantic Petroleum says the Orlando field development in the UK North Sea continues to progress to end of 2016 field oil. The field, in Block 3/3b in the northern North Sea, is being developed as a subsea tie-back to the CNR International operated Ninian Central platform…
Tullow Oil announced that its subsidiary Tullow Exploration & Production has agreed to sell its operated and non-operated L12/L15 block interests and non-operated Q4 and Q5 block interests to AU Energy, a subsidiary of Mercuria Energy Group…
Baker Hughes Inc. completed the acquisition of Weatherford’s pipeline and specialty services business for US$250 million. The total consideration includes $241 million in cash and $9 million in retained working capital. The purchase…
Noble Energy has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to supply Jordan’s National Electric Power Co. Ltd. (NEPCO) gas from the Leviathan field, located off Israel, the company announced on 3 September 2014. In the US$15 billion deal…
Noble Energy announced successful results for the Katmai exploration well and the Dantzler-2 appraisal well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Katmai exploration well Noble is reporting great news at Katmai with total gross resources for the well estimated between 40 and 100MMboe…
Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for use on Total's Egina FPSO. The order, worth about SEK 240 million…
Oil samples have been recovered in the FAN-1 exploration well being drilled offshore Senegal, said partner in the project by FAR Ltd. The well is being drilled by Cairn Energy (operator), ConocoPhillips, Far and Petrosen - the Senegalese national oil company…
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