India’s Reliance Industries has elected to terminate its contract with Transocean for the Discoverer India ultra deepwater drillship at the end of the year. The rig provider announced Reliance’s exercise to its contractual option to terminate the effective December 2016…
Desktop whiteboards, iPads and even 3D printed models are being used to help train today’s well control engineers. Elaine Maslin sets out the detail. From the comfort of your iPad. Photo from Learn to Drill…
In a short period of time, drones have shot to popularity as a tool for offshore oil and gas facility inspection. Elaine Maslin profiles the technology and its providers. Flying high. Image from Sky-Futures…
Audrey Raj speaks to Shell and Technip about Malikai’s TLP, a first-of-its-kind designed and built in Malaysia for the field offshore Sabah. Malikai TLP onboard Dockwise White Marlin HTV. Photos from Shell…
MISC Berhad saw the sailaway of its Marginal Marine Production Unit (MaMPU 1), a fit-for-purpose FPSO for the development of marginal fields, in a ceremony this week at the MMHE East Yard, Pasir Gudang. Doves…
Japan-based Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), EMAS Chiyoda Subsea Ltd. (ECS), Ezra Holdings, and Chiyoda Corp. completed a deal that sees NYK gain 25% stake in ECS. Through the acquisition of existing shares from Ezra and Chiyoda, NYK now holds a 25% equity interest in ECS…
Exmar's barge-based FLNG unit, at one time meant to operate off the coast of Colombia, has completed performance testing at Wison Offshore & Marine's Nantong, China yard, the engineering firm announced on 27 September. While the deal…
Quest Offshore, recently acquired by Wood Mackenzie in August, outlines the highlights of the global deepwater drilling market, region by region. Melissa Sustaita sets out the details. Top…
Houston-based McDermott International and Malaysian fabrication firm TH Heavy Engineering (THHE) will end their Malaysian joint ventures Berlian McDermott (BMD) and THHE Fabricators (THF), the pair announced on Friday (23 September), citing local market conditions…
Vard Holdings secured a contract worth about US$40 million for the design and construction of two additional module carrier vessels for Topaz Energy and Marine. The vessels, of VARD 9 21 design and measuring 123m by 16.5m, are sister…
China's CNOOC has started production from the Enping 18-1 oilfield in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the South China Sea. In addition to fully utilize the existing facilities of Enping 24-2 oilfield, the project teamed up with Enping 23-1…
CGG says final pre-stack depth-migrated data for Phase 1 of its Davros 3D BroadSeis and BroadSource multiclient survey in the Northern Carnarvon Basin on the North West Shelf of Western Australia is available. Phase 2 is due to complete by Q4…
Santos and its partners have decided to go ahead with the Sampang Sustainability Project (SPP), a project to extend the life of the Sampang area fields, off East Java, Indonesia, to at least 2020. The project will involve switching the…
FMC Technologies has installed and tested its annulus monitoring system (AMS) in an offshore well in Malaysia owned by Petronas. A winner of the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference Spotlight on New Technology award, FMC Technologies’…
PT Medco Energi Internasional has agreed to acquire two subsidiaries of ConocoPhillips, seeing it take over the South Natuna Sea Block B production sharing contract, offshore Indonesia, with a 40% working interest. Image from ConocoPhillips…
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