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Chevron maintains upstream spend

Mar 12, 2014

Chevron’s leadership set out the oil major’s plans out to 2020 this week, including eying exploration opportunities offshore Greenland, to maintain its reserves hopper.  Chevron is planning 20% production growth, from 2.6MMboe/d in 2013…

Pil discovery in Norwegian Sea

Mar 06, 2014

An oil and gas discovery has been made on the Pil exploration well, which sits in the Norwegian Sea. London-based Faroe Petroleum said the Pil well (6406/12-3S) encountered a gross hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir section with about 135m…

ExxonMobil to reduce capex

Mar 07, 2014

ExxonMobil Corp. announced at its annual investor meeting in New York on 5 March, that it will reduce its capital spending 6% in a continued effort to focus on profitability and returns on invested capital. Shares fell nearly 3%. Last…

Strong pipeline growth predicted

Feb 26, 2014

The European outlook for the offshore pipe industry in 2014 is positive, according to a recent report conducted by Tata Steel. The study points to high energy demand from Africa, Asia and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations…

Maersk wins jackup deal from Brunei Shell

Feb 12, 2014

Brunei Shell Petroleum awarded Maersk Drilling a four-year contract for the jackup rig Maersk Completer for operations offshore Brunei. The contract will commence in December 201, in direct continuation of its current contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum…

ONEgas renews AMEC contract

Feb 13, 2014

UK-based engineering and project management firm AMEC and its partners in the AJS joint venture, Jacobs and Stork, have secured a five-year contract extension for the integrated services contract for the Shell ONEgas assets in the southern North Sea…

CERA14: Colombia raises offshore profile

Mar 05, 2014

Colombia’s offshore is not as widely explored as its conventional onshore space. The country, which has many resources including coal bed methane and even shale, is making a bigger push for offshore exploration. Colombia’s Vice Minister of Energy for the Ministry of Mines and Energy…

Barents seismic project expands

Feb 26, 2014

The project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents Sea has been joined by a further 16 companies. In total, 33 companies are now part of the project, which will secure good data quality and low acquisition costs. A…

ThoughtStream: Intelligent energy in the Middle East

Mar 01, 2014

The Middle East has long been associated with “easy oil” and “low tech, low cost” production models. But the volume, scale and complexity of energy projects across the region are creating increasing demand for advanced technology and expertise…

Colloquy: EnergyQuest and the Court of Last Resort

Mar 01, 2014

Editor's Column: Colloquy Raising awareness of the energy industry needs to begin long before students are enrolled in college. The World Affairs Council of Houston recently held its fourth annual EnergyQuest competition for Houston-area public and private high school students…

Giant Olympus starts-up

Feb 04, 2014

Shell announced it has begun production from the Mars B development through Olympus, its seventh, and largest, floating deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico.   It is the first deepwater project in the region to expand an existing oil and gas field with significant new infrastructure…

Senergy joins Plexus JIP

Feb 25, 2014

Lloyds Register Group subsidiary Senergy has joined oil and gas engineering services firm Plexus Holdings' on-going joint industry project (JIP) to develop and commercialize a new and safer subsea wellhead, using Plexus' patented POS-GRIP technology…

Activity OE February

Feb 11, 2014

GE Oil & Gas opens Brazilian logistics base With an area of 590,000sq. ft and investments that exceed US$100 million, GE’s base in Niteroi in the state of Rio de Janeiro was designed primarily to load and unload installer ships. These vessels carry heavy equipment…

Rosneft, GE sign JV deal

Feb 14, 2014

Rosneft and General Electric signed an agreement to set up a series of joint ventures. The document was signed by Rosneft President Igor Sechin, and General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation…

Shell drops Alaska plan

Jan 30, 2014

Royal Dutch Shell has said it will quit its 2014 plans for drilling offshore Alaska, cut capital spending, and increase the pace of assets sales, the oil major’s CEO Ben van Beurden (pictured) announced today. Shell's U-turn on Alaskan drilling follows a profit warning last week and…

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