Partners on the Chinguetti oil field offshore Mauritania are considering options for its decommissioning. Production on the field, which is produced via the Berge Helene floating, production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), is expected to end next year…
Start up on the Stella field will mark a step-change in operator Ithaca Energy's business, the firm said this morning. First oil on the field, due at the end of this month, will see the firm's production more than double to 20-25,000 boe/d and unit operating costs drop to under US$20/boe…
Aker BP has started production from the Viper-Kobra development, a subsea tieback to the Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Norwegian North Sea. Viper-Kobra consists of two separate discoveries, containing 9 MMboe jointly…
Tullow Oil is moving to get its Jubilee project offshore Ghana on track by year-end, as it firms up plans to divest all of its Norwegian assets by 1H 2017. Image from Tullow. “We…
Germany’s Wintershall weighed several concepts for its Maria field development, which sits in a mature area off Norway. Elaine Maslin reports on how the firm drew upon multiple neighbors to select the right solution. A…
Mubadala Petroleum has reached agreement with Petrofac for the modification and extension of contracts related to the FPF-003 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), which continued extension of the Jasmine development’s field life…
First oil on EnQuest's Kraken heavy oil field in the UK North Sea is on track for 1H 2017 after the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the project set out for a deepwater anchorage. Vessel operator Bumi Armada…
O3b Networks, technology solutions company RigNet and floating production service provider MODEC, have agreed to provide high-throughput, low latency connectivity for MODEC’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels off the coast of Brazil…
Arnlea Systems has been awarded a contract by Tullow Oil to roll out its hazardous area inspection system, Intrinsix Ex, across the company’s Ghanaian operations in the Jubilee and TEN fields. Under the contract Arnlea will roll out the…
Keppel Offshore & Marine's (Keppel O&M) subsidiary Keppel Shipyard is on track to deliver a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to Armada Madura EPC. Armada Madura is a joint venture between Shapoorji Pallonji and Bumi Armada…
Verus Petroleum entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Maersk Oil North Sea UK for the acquisition of Maersk Oil’s 9.8% interest in the Boa oil field, increasing Verus’s interest in the Boa field to 11.35%. The deal also adds approximately 1800 boe/d to Verus’s daily production…
Singapore’s Keppel is cutting more than 3000 jobs in its offshore and marine division (Keppel O&M) due to slow global growth and weak demand in the first nine months of the year, the company said today (20 October). Image from Keppel…
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been awarded contracts to provide marine warranty services to three different floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) projects in Brazil. Modec has appointed Aqualis…
Repsol Sinopec North Sea (formerly Talisman North Sea) has extended its lease on the Bleo Holm floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit up to 30 June 2018. The Bleo Holm is the sixth Bluewater designed, built, owned and operated FPSO…
Intelligent Engineering has seen its SPS repair system used on a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel offshore Cameroon. The FSO Komi Kribi 1 (KK1), converted in 1977 from a VLCC and operated by ExxonMobil for Cameroon Oil Transportation Co…
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