Coral FLNG SA has awarded the TechnipFMC-led joint venture TJS Consortium an engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and start-up (EPCIC) of the Coral South FLNG facility offshore Mozambique. TJS Consortium…
Image of the Saipem 10000, from Saipem. Saipem has won contracts with Eni worth US$230 million for work on the newly sanctioned Coral project off Mozambique; in addition to other work in the Mediterranean…
Eni on Thursday signed the drilling, construction and installation contracts for its proposed Coral South floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project, the first FLNG project offshore Africa and the third FLNG facility globally. Image…
Most floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels are known for making money (or costing a lot of it), but the government of Ghana has decided to turn one into money, literally. EPCI contractor MODEC announced that the Kwame Nkrumah MV21 FPSO…
The true potential of AUV capabilities have not been fully realized, according to a technical session at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference. Karen Boman reports. An Oceaneering AUV. Photos from Oceaneering…
Cairn Energy and the Senegal joint venture have spudded the FAN South-1 exploration well into the South Fan prospect, according to partner FAR Ltd. Map of FAN South-1, from FAR. The…
Hyperdynamics started drilling operations earlier this week at the Fatala turbidite fan prospect offshore Guinea, West Africa. On 21 May, the Pacific Scirocco drillship entered Guinea shelf waters. Due to an amendment to the drilling contract…
Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Co. (YFP) and its partner have decided to put drilling plans for the Aje field offshore Nigeria on hold. Map of Aje, from Panoro. The Aje-6 well was to be drilled to increase oil production from the field…
Vallianz Holdings secured long-term charter contracts for four vessels valued at up to US$115 million in total in the Middle East, Egypt, and Turkmenistan. The contracts mark Vallianz’s entry into two new markets in the Middle East and Central Asia…
Cairn Energy’s latest SNE well offshore Senegal, SNE-6, has proved to be successful, with the confirmation of good connectivity with the SNE-5 well. Map of Senegal, from Cairn. Cairn…
Ophir Energy's Ayamé-1X exploration well offshore the Ivory Coast found oil, but not in significant quantities. The well, in block CI-513, reached a total depth of 5394m true vertical depth sub sea. The well was targeting a number…
Total has signed up to explore another deepwater block offshore Mauritania that the French giant says is in a high-potential zone. Image from Total. Total inked an exploration…
BP has achieved first gas from two fields - Taurus and Libra - in the West Nile Delta (WND), offshore Egypt, eight months ahead of schedule. Image of West Nile Delta, from BP. “The…
Construction contracts have been awarded for Ophir Energy's Fortuna LNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea. Fortuna will be Africa’s first deepwater FLNG project and is targeted for first gas in mid-2020 at a cost of US$2 billion. The project…
Oslo-listed floating production vessel operator BW Offshore has received a termination notice for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Sendje Berge, which is operating under a contract with Addax Petroleum on the Okwori field offshore Nigeria…
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