A consortium led by Eni and comprising of GNPC, Explorco, Vitol, and Woodfields, has been awarded a new exploration license, Cape Three Points Block 4, located in the Tano Basin, offshore Ghana. GNPC, Vitol and Eni are already developing…
Yinson has awarded Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine conversion work on a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel meant for Eni’s Offshore Cape Three Points Block (OCTP), offshore Ghana. The award is one of four the…
McDermott International received regulatory approval for its McDermott Marine Construction Ghana Ltd. (MMCGL) joint venture to pursue key offshore opportunities in Ghana. McDermott and MMCGL officials made the announcement during the 2015 Africa Oil Week in Cape Town…
African focussed exploration and production firm Addax Petroleum has extended its contract with Malaysia's Yinson Holdings for use of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Knock Adoon FPSO has been working on the Antan field offshore Nigeria…
Production has restarted on the Kwane Nkrumah FPSO (pictured) on Tullow Oil's giant Jubilee field offshore Ghana ahead of expectations. The FPSO had suffered issues with its gas compressor late last month, resulting in a gas export outage from 3 July…
Oil output at the giant Jubilee field has been constrained after gas output was suspended 3 July due to technical issues with gas compression systems on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Kwame Nkrumah, says operator Tullow Oil…
Logan Industries, based in Hempstead, Texas, will supply a compensated coiled tubing lift frame (CCTLF) to Maersk Drilling, which provides drilling services to oil companies around the world. The CCTLF system will be designed and built in…
Maintaining a modern fleet with long-term contracts while setting drilling records is Maersk Drilling’s way of doing business. Eloise Logan spoke to the firm’s chief technology officer. The Maersk Voyager drillship…
UK supermajor BP awarded Cape a US$153.5 million two-year contract to supply services on six North Sea assets and the Forties Pipeline Systems. According to Cape, the company will provide a range of core services, including access, insulation…
The latest EIC Monitor report once again shows a significant decline in the levels of contracting activity across the global upstream sector in Q1 2015. Despite the overall number of contracts being awarded dropping, the value of some is substantial…
ENI Ghana Exploration and Production awarded the Oceaneering International and GE Oil & Gas-led consortium a contract to supply equipment for the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) block project development located off the coast of West Africa…
GE Oil & Gas announced the booking of an US$850 million order across its oil and gas business for the supply of equipment to the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) block, Ghana. The OCTP block is located in offshore Ghana at a water depth of 500-1100 meters…
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract from eni Ghana Exploration and Production Ltd., an Eni subsidiary, for use of the newbuild drillship Maersk Voyager. The firm contract period is 3.5 years with an option to extend by one year…
Sevan Marine subsidiary KANFA has been awarded a letter of award for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of four process modules for the FPSO Yinson Production. The contract is expected to last 15 months and be worth about US$50 million…
Malaysia's Yinson Holdings has won a US$2.5 billion FPSO charter and operation contract with Eni on the deepwater Offshore Cape Three Points Block (OCTP), offshore Ghana. The contract, agreed between Eni and Yinson companies Yinson Production…