The Russian National Committee for United Nations Environment Programme (UNEPCOM) endorsed Rosneft and the Russian Geographical Society's initiative to continue its Arctic research program. This program will help define the principles of economic activity regulations in the region…
Norway-based subsea contractor Ocean Installer has been awarded a contract for an umbilical installation project with Oceaneering for LLOG on the Delta House project in the Mississippi Canyon Area of the US Gulf of Mexico. The project…
With nearly 40% of today’s oil production coming from mature fields and this figure set to rise according to the Wood Report, maximizing recovery is high on the agenda of oil and gas operators. There is a significant portion of brown…
Allseas’ 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte is on its way to Europe after leaving Daewoo’s Okpo shipyard in South Korea 17 November. The Pieter Schelte will make short stops…
Lundin Petroleum’s Kitabu-1 exploration well, in Blocks SB307/SB30, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, came up dry, the Swedish independent announced on 18 November. Lundin said that the primary reservoir interval contained poor quality siltstone…
Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Sdn. Bhd. (BSP) awarded McDermott International, Inc. a three-year shallow water pipeline contract to transport and install pipelines and umbilicals for the Champion and Ampa Fields, offshore Brunei. Image…
South Stream Transport, the company charged with overseeing the planning, construction and operation of the South Stream pipeline is ready to start construction on the most complicated part of the project, Gazprom says. Once built, South…
The Board of Directors of Royal Dutch Shell plc have designated Charles O. 'Chad' Holliday as the next Chairman of the Board. Holliday will succeed Jorma Ollila at the next annual general meeting, in May 2015, and will become the first American Chair of the company…
Shell has asked the Obama administration for five more years to explore for oil off Alaska’s coast, saying set backs and legal delays may push the start of drilling past the 2017 expiration of some leases. In a letter to the Interior…
Ceona and Marine Platforms Ltd. (MPL) were awarded two contracts in Nigeria worth a total of US$30 million. Ceona will provide vessels and its installation expertise on the Eni Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd. ABO12 well completion, as…
How much does Russia’s oil and gas industry stand to lose in light of increasing Western sanctions? Sarah Parker Musarra reports. In April 2014, the first oil produced from the Russian Arctic Shelf…
Production could resume as early as 2016 for the Kashagan oil and gas project off Kazakhstan following the replacement of pipeline infrastructure, Total’s President of Exploration and Production Arnaud Breuillac told Bloomberg. Production…
Shell will formally cease oil and gas production from the Brent Alpha and Brent Bravo platforms in the UK North Sea on 1 November 2014. Brent Alpha and Brent Bravo are located 186km (115 miles) east of Lerwick. Both platforms have significantly…
Gazprom Neft, the fourth largest oil producer in Russia and the subsidiary of Gazprom, may consider the possibility of suspension of implementation of several projects on the Russian shelf, due to sanctions, imposed on Russia. Alexander Dyukov…
Oil & Gas Innovation Centre’s (OGIC) Ian Phillips, OGIC chief executive, will highlight how the pace of innovation in the oil and gas industry is significantly lower than in comparable industries at the 20thSPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference in Aberdeen this week…
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