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Sechin: Oil markets are in acute crisis

Feb 10, 2015

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin addressed the International Petroleum (IP) Week forum in London, stating that the oil markets are in a fairly acute crisis. Image from Rosneft.   “In the second half of 2014 there was a drop in oil prices…

Tata marks 1m-tonnes of North Sea pipelines

Jan 28, 2015

Europe’s second largest steel producer Tata Steel has marked the supply of one million tonnes of pipeline for oil and gas projects in the North Sea. Henrik Adam, chief commercial officer of Tata Steel in Europe, says the firm has completed…

Saipem gets US$1.8 billion Kashagan gig

Feb 06, 2015

The North Caspian Operating Co. (NCOC) awarded Saipem a US$1.8 billion engineering and construction contract to build two pipelines for the Kashagan field project, offshore Kazakhstan. Image from NCOC…

PetroRio acquires Shell Brazil fields

Jan 20, 2015

Brazil’s PetroRio is acquiring 80% interest in the Bijupirá and Salema fields, offshore Brazil from Shell Brasil Petróleo. Image of the Fluminense FPSO. From Modec.   The Bijupirá and Salema fields are located in the Campos basin…

25 years in the planning – Allseas’ Pieter Schelte arrives

Feb 04, 2015

A unique and long-awaited sight arrived at one of Europe’s busiest ports early January - Allseas’ 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte. KOTUG…

Gazprom targets Baltic LNG

Jan 22, 2015

Russia’s Gazprom announced plans to build a new LNG plant on the Baltic Sea on Thursday (22 January).  The project, called Baltic LNG, will be built at Ust-Luga, in the Leningrad region, near the Gulf of Finland. It will be capable of producing 10 MPTA of LNG…

Conversion work

Feb 04, 2015

Alan Thorpe recently paid a visit to Singapore’s shipyards. He gives a rundown of some of the current floating production and storage unit conversions underway in Singapore and in Malaysia. The…

Gazprom agrees new Black Sea route

Jan 28, 2015

Russia's Gazprom has approved a new route for a gas pipeline across the Black Sea to Turkey.  Gazprom had been due to build, in partnership with Eni, Wintershall and EDF, the South Stream pipeline, from Russia, across the North Sea, to Bulgaria and on to Italy…

OTC names 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award recipients

Feb 03, 2015

The 2015 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) will kick off on Sunday, 3 May, in Houston with the Annual OTC Dinner to honor the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Achievement Awards. OTC will recognize Elmer (Bud) Danenberger III for individual achievement…

Schlumberger acquiring interest in Eurasia

Jan 20, 2015

Schlumberger and Eurasia Drilling (EDC) entered into an agreement in which Schlumberger will acquire 45.65% interest in EDC in a US$1.7 billion deal. The agreement extends the successful long-term relationship enjoyed by the two companies within the strategic alliance signed in 2011…

Shell charters Ocean Alliance

Jan 14, 2015

Oceaneering International entered into a two-year, multi-service vessel charter agreement with Shell for use of the Ocean Alliance in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) commencing January 1, 2015. The Ocean Alliance is a US-flagged vessel built in 2010…

MWCC receives new ECS for GoM

Jan 29, 2015

Marine Well Containment Co. (MWCC) received delivery of its expanded containment system (ECS) for operations in the US Gulf of Mexico. MWCC Containment System in a 'cap and flow' scenario. From MWCC…

ExxonMobil starts-up Arkutun-Dagi

Jan 19, 2015

ExxonMobil began production at the Arkutun-Dagi field, off Russia. Image of the Arkutun-Dagi topside.   Arkutun-Dagi is part of the multi-billion-dollar Sakhalin-1 project, which also…

Chevron, SK LNG sign Gorgon contract

Jan 21, 2015

Chevron’s Australian subsidiaries signed a binding sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with SK LNG Trading (SK), in which SK will receive 4.15 million-tonne of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over a five-year period starting in 2017. Gorgon LNG site…

43 companies net Norwegian stakes

Jan 20, 2015

Norway's Ministry of Petroleum has welcomed interest in its latest Awards in Pre-defined Areas licensing round, despite the expection that future discoveries in the area will be smaller than in the past.  Stakes in some 54 new production…

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