Noble’s Gunflint find Noble Energy announced a non-commercial discovery at its second deepwater Gunflint appraisal well in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Canyon 992 #1, located one mile west of the original discovery well, was drilled to 32…
Royal Dutch Shell’s downstream director is to take over from Peter Voser as chief executive of the company, starting January 1, 2014. Ben van Beurden, 55, a Dutch national, graduated with a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology…
Engineering services firm Plexus Holdings has picked up its first order with Italy's ENI for work offshore Australia. The contract, worth about £280,000, is with ENI's Australian subsidiary and is for the supply of 10,000psi POS-GRIP…
ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) and Oil India Ltd. (OIL) have agreed to purchase Videocon Mauritius Energy Ltd.’s 10% share in the Rovuma Area 1 Offshore Block in Mozambique (Area 1) for US $2.47 million. The acquisition will give OVL 60% stake and OIL 40% stake in Area 1…
Brazil's Petrobras awarded Seadrill Ltd and SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad's 50:50 joint venture Sapura Navegação Marítima S.A., Brazil (SNM), a contract for the charter and operation of three pipelaying support vessels (PLSV's). The eight-year contract…
Engineering and construction firm Foster Wheeler has bought Aberdeen-based upstream consultancy Ingen Ideas. Ingen specializes in field development and project decision support, focused on the evaluation and implementation of oil and gas field developments…
One of the biggest challenges facing the subsea industry, in Norway and globally, is human resources—access to skills. To help quantify and assess the sector’s skills base and find where the gaps are, the Underwater Technology Foundation…
Noble Energy announced a non-commercial hydrocarbon find at its second deepwater Gunflint appraisal well in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Canyon 992 #1, located one mile west of the original discovery well, encountered 109 ft of net pay and was drilled to a total depth of 32…
Lundin Petroleum is to update its reserves estimates on the giant Johan Sverdrup field offshore Norway after its latest appraisal well completed. Lundin says the latest well on the find, 16/2-21 located in PL501, had been a success finding…
GDF Suez E&P UK Ltd. (GDF) has awarded a £1.4 million (US$ 2.17 million) joint study to Xodus Group and Atkins for Concept Select work in the Austen (formerly Jacqui) field in the Central North Sea, with an option to proceed into the Concept Definition phase…
UK oil and gas exploration firm EnQuest is to become a North African player after farming in to fields in the Gulf of Gabes offshore Tunisia. The move involves EnQuest taking a 70% stake and operatorship of the Didon and Zarat fields from Swedish oil and gas company PA Resources…
A new satellite platform built in the north east of England is due to float out of its yard tonight (May 29) to be installed 177km off Aberdeen. The 6338ton Forties Alpha satellite platform (FASP) topsides is part of a £400million project…
Innovation in the offshore industry was one of the key themes at this year’s 27th Offshore Achievement Awards. The event, supported by Offshore Engineer and held at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre, was successfully re-launched…
IKM Consultants has taken over Poseidon Consulting Services (PCS) after buying 100% of its shares from Siemens in Norway. Poseidon, which mainly focusses on subsea and pipeline work, has about 150 staff, which will be taken in to IKM's business…
Newly founded IRM group Harkand has announced plans to buy Gulf of Mexico business Veolia Marine Services (VMS). The deal would add 150 onshore and offshore staff, based out of Houston, three dynamically-positioned multi-purpose vessels (MSVs)…
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