Norway-based Uptime International has entered into contracts with MAC Offshore Dubai and Fujian Mawei Shipyard China for delivery of three active motion-compensated gangways. The first of these three gangways will be mounted early 2015…
Cylindrical floating vessel firm Sevan Marine says it has a positive outlook with multiple leads for its technology, including FLNG technology and potential deals for floating production units on Premier Oil’s North Sea Bream field and Shell’s Penguins…
Tunisian Authorities approved Australia’s ADX Energy Ltd.’s two-year extension of the exploration period for the Kerkouane permit offshore Tunisia. The exploration period is now set to end on 21 February 2016. The ADX operated contiguous Sicily Channel blocks…
Adrian Rose is Oil & Gas UK’s new contractor vice chairman. Rose, currently Transocean Ltd. vice president – Europe,will represent the contractor community. He joins Glen Cayley, upstream director, Shell UK Ltd., who was appointed as…
Marine scientist Dr. Quenton Dokken will examine the 'Rigs to Reefs' program, an effort to transform oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico into artificial reefs, on 26 August at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University…
Aberdeen’s oil industry has pioneered global offshore harsh environment exploration, but it will need to “innovate its socks off” to maximize the North Sea’s remaining potential and remain competitive globally, a special SPE event in the Scottish city heard last night…
Petrobras announced drilling has started on the first exploration well on the Libra pre-salt area in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. Drilling on Libra, discovered in 2010, and estimated to contain 8-12 billion boe, comes as marine production…
Russia’s OAO Rosneft has filed a suit against the Gazprom-led Sakhalin Energy consortium to obtain access to the Sakhalin-2 gas pipeline, RIA Novosti reported 7 July. Rosneft is developing a 5mtpa LNG terminal with ExxonMobil in the Far East that was scheduled to launch 2018…
ExxonMobil began exploratory drilling operations in the Kara Sea’s Universitetskaya structure in the East Prinovozemelskiy area on 9 August, defying Western-imposed sanctions against Russian state-owned Rosneft. Drilling on the Universitetskaya-1 well…
Finland's Arctech Helsinki Shipyard signed a contract to build three icebreaking stand-by vessels for Russia´s largest shipping company, Sovcomflot (SCF Group). The vessels will be built for the North East Sakhalin Offshore region oil…
The living quarters platform (LQP-1) topside for the Vladimir Filanovsky field has arrived at its north Caspian Sea destination from Krasnye Barrikady shipyard in Russia’s Astrakhan region, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) announced on 5 August…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has compiled a new web-based map tracking North American LNG export facility projects. API says approving the LNG sites are critical to US export goals: the proposed export terminals are a 'roadmap to a lower trade deficit…
Shell confirmed a third discovery at the Norphlet play in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the supermajor announced on 15 July 2015. The explorer hit more than 400ft (122m) of net oil pay at its Rydberg well, located 75mi (120km) off the Gulf Coast in Mississippi Canyon Block 525…
The Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey approved the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for South Stream's offshore section in Turkey. The report contains the assessment of potential environmental impacts caused by the gas pipeline construction…
An A60 fire door from InterDam. Just seven years after launching, fire- and blast- resistant door and wall manufacturer InterDam has added some impressive names to its project portfolio…
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