McDermott will exercise its option to purchase Oceanteam’s 25% ownership in the vessel-owning company North Ocean 105 AS by the end of April 2017, according to joint venture partner Oceanteam. Under McDermott’s main credit facility agreement…
Global Energy Development (GED) has entered into two share purchase agreements to acquire a total of 11 offshore subsea service vessels, and a barge vessel, as it seeks to adopt a new business strategy focusing on the subsea oilfield services sector…
Houston-based Vaalco Energy restarted production at the Avouma 2-H well on the Avouma platform, offshore Gabon, after utilizing a hydraulic workover unit to replace a failed electric submersible pump (ESP) system. Gabon drill floor operations…
Short-term production from the BP-led Azerbaijan’s Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) project in the Caspian Sea is expected to be flat, and contain gas rather than oil, according to a new analysis from Douglas-Westwood (DW). ACG…
Austrian operator OMV is restarting production from the Maari/Manaia wellhead platform, offshore New Zealand, in which a crack was found late last year. A temporary repair has been made and now OMV, with advisors AMOG and Worley Parsons…
The first offshore facilities to be decommissioned in Great Yarmouth on the east coast of England are due to start arriving in Spring this year. A partnership between Veolia and Peterson partnership has been awarded two platform decommissioning…
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has chosen Emerson Automation Solutions to provide a valve remote control (VRC) system for a semisubmersible offshore crane vessel, SSCV Sleipnir, currently under construction at Sembcorp Marine’s shipyard in Singapore…
Intervention specialist Helix Energy Solutions has sold its Helix 534 vessel to a third party for approximately US$2.8 million. The vessel, a DP2 modified drillship, which Helix bought from Transocean in 2012, and converted in Singapore…
Neil Gordon, chief executive of Subsea UK. When looking at oil price trends over the years since the 1920s, it becomes apparent that apart from the cyclical spikes every few years…
Audrey Leon speaks with Tom Adams, vice president, Power Business Development, at ABS Group, to find out how the firm is offering its inspection and quality assurance services to the offshore wind industry. Image from iStock…
Mermaid Maritime is at the chopping block again with China Merchants Industry, as the Thai company axes an additional two newbuild contracts with the shipbuilder. Illustration of the MTR-3 rig…
A North Sea exploration minnow led by one of the co-founders of Ithaca Energy and Iona Energy is a step closer to taking over a North Sea discovery with plans to list on the stock market to raise the cash needed to develop the field. i3 Energy…
A total of 32 crude and natural gas projects are expected to commence operations in the North Sea region by 2025, with the UK claiming the highest number at 22, followed by Norway and Denmark with nine and one respectively, according to GlobalData…
Dr Tony Trapp, executive chairman of Osbit and leading figure in the north east England offshore industry, has been awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year’s Honors. Trapp has been…
Hess is dedicated to bringing its Stampede project online on-time and on-budget, with safety being the key to success. Jerry Lee dives into the finer details of the project, slated for 2018. In September 2016…