Mexico's state oil regulator, the Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), has revealed 26 companies that have qualified to participate in the country's so-called Round 1.4, in Mexico's deepwater offshore. The companies pre-qualified in the fourth phase of Mexico's historic Round One…
SBM Offshore has appointed former Shell executive D.H.M. Wood as management board member and chief financial officer (CFO), to be effective in October. On 10 February 2016, SBM announced the intention of the current CFO, P.M. van Rossum…
Allseas’ dynamically positioned single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully executed its first heavy lift project offshore Norway. The US$2.7 billion mega-vessel, built to lift 48,000-tonne topsides…
Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache. Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble…
A 48-hour strike has started in the UK North Sea by offshore workers working for Wood Group on Shell platforms. The strike, on the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Nelson, Gannet, Shearwater and Curlew platforms, follows a 24-hour walk out by workers from the Unite and RMT unions on Tuesday 26 July…
Unite the union says it has called for urgent talks with engineering firm Wood Group ahead of more planned strike action in the North Sea. Nearly 400 workers in the Unite and RMT unions who work for Wood Group on Shell platforms in the UK North Sea have so far staged two walkouts…
Gazpromneft has brought a further two production wells (its third and fourth) into production at the Prirazlomnoye field in the Pechora Sea, as well as its second and third injection wells. Daily production on the Prirazlomnaya ice-resistant offshore rig…
Shell has made a major discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the firm revealed as part of its 1H results this morning. The firm said initial estimated recoverable resources for the Fort Sumter well is more than 125 MMboe. Further…
Allseas mega-vessel Pioneering Spirit has left its berth at the Maasvlakte 2, Rotterdam, to perform offshore trials ahead of its first commercial operation in the Norwegian North Sea (see video below). Crowds of people turned out to watch as huge…
Planned strike action by workers for Wood Group working on Shell platforms in the UK North Sea has been suspended to allow fresh talks to start. Nearly 400 workers in the Unite and RMT unions have so far staged two walkouts, for 24 hours on 26 July…
Russia’s Lukoil is moving the jackets for the offshore ice-resistant stationary platform #2 from the port of Astrakhan to the Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea. The platform is intended for drilling and operation of wells within the second stage of field development…
Quest Offshore provides a look at subsea processing systems by type. Subsea Processing Project List (Onstream 2010+) Subsea Processing Application Region Operator Project Boosting Africa/Mediterranean…
Australia's BHP Billiton has made a gas discovery on the deepwater LeClerc play-opening well offshore Trinidad and Tobago. BHP had been drilling for oil. The LeClerc 1 ST01 well was drilled in Block 5, in 2500-8500ft water depth, 135mi…
Russia's Rosneft has made a gas condensate discovery named Wild Orchid offshore Vietnam. The well was drilled using the Hakuryu-5 semisubmersible drilling rig during Q2 this year, operated by RN-Vietnam, in Block 06.1. Volume of reserves…
Shell Australia has awarded DOF Subsea a five-year contract with two, two-year options to provide a fulltime underwater services and multi-purpose supply vessel to the Prelude FLNG facility. Prelude FLNG will produce, liquefy, store and transfer LNG at sea…
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