In June 2013, Malaysia's Yinson Holdings Berhad made a conditional offer to acquire Norway's Fred. Olsen Production ASA ('FOP') for NOK995.74 million (US$172.1 million), or NOK 9.40/share that was approved by the FOP board. On 4 July 2013…
Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP have made a second deepwater gas condensate discovery in the Cauvery basin offshore India. The discovery, named D-56, was made in well CYIIID5-S1 on Block CY-DWN-2001/2, in 1743m water depth, 62km off the coast…
Santos announced the acquisition of a 50% interest in the Northwest Natuna Production Sharing Contract (PSC) in the South China Sea offshore Indonesia from AWE Ltd. The NW Natuna PSC contains the undeveloped Ande Ande Lumut oil field, which…
Höegh LNG has signed a contract with an Asia based national oil company to conduct pre-front-end engineering design (FEED) engineering work for an offshore floating LNG facility (FLNG) with a two million-tonne per annum production capacity…
Halliburton opened the expansion of its Malaysia Manufacturing and Technology Center in Senai, Malaysia, on August 17, 2013. The additional capability will allow the company to expand its delivery of high-quality products to meet the growing…
ABB has won an order to provide integrated solutions that include the electrical propulsion system, Azipod® CZ and automation system onboard two offshore accommodation vessels. The 1+1 ccommodation vessels will be built by COSCO (Nantong) ShipyardCo…
The Kanowit FLNG facility is under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Okpo, South Korea, where first steel was cut in June. Petronas Floating LNG 1 (Labuan) Ltd. signed a US$771million contract for engineering…
KrisEnergy Ltd., an independent upstream oil and gas company, agreed the final investment decision for the Nong Yao oil development in the G11/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand, along with Mubadala Petroleum. First oil is anticipated in 1H 2015…
India's Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) announced three offshore and one onshore discovery during Q1 of its fiscal year 2013-2014, which ended 30 June, and one additional onshore discovery in August 2013 (Q2). Offshore: New prospect discovery: exploratory well KGOSN041NANL-2…
Subsea 7 has posted a record backlog of US$10.4 billion for Q2 2013, with tendering continuing to be high into Q3. But profits were hit by a US$300 million loss provision on the Guará-Lula NE project, offshore Brazil. Jean Cahuzac…
Dockwise provides this video, filmed in November 2012, regarding the launch of the SHP jacket, now located at the SHWE field in the Bay of Begal, off Myanmar. The 22,000-ton jacket was launched at a water depth of 110m, using the HYSY229 installation barge.
Jaya Holdings Ltd., delivered its first high-specification, deepwater platform supply vessel (PSV), Jaya Valour. The vessel was delivered on schedule, and upon delivery, went on-hire immediately, embarking on its maiden voyage as part…
ITG Group has ordered two platform supply vessels (PSV) of the PX121 design from ULSTEIN. The ROC yard, China, will be constructing the two PSVs for ITG. The contract includes an option for two more vessels. ROC is a new yard starting…
Eni has spud the Cua Lo-1 exploration well located in Block 105-110/04, in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam, partners Neon Energy and KrisEnergy announced. The well, spud on August 11, 2013, is designed to test the large Cua Lo gas prospect…
The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued news release on 9 August with its forecast that China's net oil imports will exceed those of the U.S. by October 2013 on a monthly basis, and by 2014 on an annual basis, making China the largest oil importer in the world…