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Viper Subsea exhibits new line integrity monitor, V-LIM

Oct 16, 2014

Viper Subsea exhibited its latest innovation in Aberdeen this week. The V-LIM is a line integrity monitor that provides extremely accurate electrical integrity data across a wide range of insulation resistance levels and can be readily integrated…

FMC Technologies gets Total subsea Edradour, Glenlivet work

Oct 16, 2014

FMC Technologies, Inc. received an order from Total to supply subsea systems for its Edradour and Glenlivet fields offshore in the West of Shetland area. FMC Technologies' scope of supply consists of subsea equipment including manifolds and associated connections and controls equipment…

RWE deal with Russian outfit in doubt

Oct 16, 2014

RWE’s sale of its exploration and production subsidiary RWE Dea AG to a Russian investor is still going ahead, the firm says, despite a question mark over the UK assets involved.  The US$7 billion deal, with Russian-backed LetterOne Group…

Japex seals UKCS farm-in with Apache

Oct 16, 2014

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (JAPEX) has farmed-in to four licences in the UK North Sea with Apache North Sea.  As part of the move, JAPEX has formed a new subsidiary, JAPEX UK E&P CENTRAL (JUKC), with financial backing from Japan Oil…

Wood Group Kenny wins CCS pipeline job

Oct 16, 2014

Wood Group Kenny has been awarded the front end engineering design (FEED) for the subsea and pipeline element of the Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in Aberdeenshire. The project, the world's first full-chain CCS project on a gas-fired power station…

Marathon Oil Norge sale complete

Oct 15, 2014

Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. announced today it has closed the transaction with Det norske oljeselskap for the sale of Marathon Oil Norge for a total transaction value of US$2.7 billion. After adjustment for debt, net working capital and interest on the net purchase price…

Petrobras starts Iracema production

Oct 15, 2014

Petrobras has begun production from FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba, located in Block BM-S-11 of the giant Lula field. The start-up represents the first in the Iracema Sul area of the presalt Santos basin, located 300km off the coasts of the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states…

Heerema wins Maersk Culzean contract

Oct 15, 2014

Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. awarded Heerema Hartlepool Ltd. a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Culzean development’s well head platform (WHP) jacket. Maersk’s proposed Culzean development…

ROVOP investing US$6.3 million in new HQ, ROV facilities

Oct 15, 2014

ROVOP is investing more than US$ 6.3 million (£4million) in a new purpose-built headquarters that will include training facilities, a full ROV underwater test facility and an internal 40-tonne overhead crane. The facility is located in the Aberdeenshire’s Westhill area…

Statoil CEO resigns to join BG

Oct 15, 2014

Statoil's CEO has resigned in order to take over UK-based BG Group as CEO on a US$2.4 million (£1.5 million) annual basic salary, plus benefits.  Image: Helge Lund. From BG Group. Helge Lund has been Statoil's CEO since 2004…

TrustLube provides automatic lubrication system for Prelude

Oct 14, 2014

SBM Offshore is using the TrustLube automatic lubrication system for Shell’s Prelude. According to TrustLube, its system consists of an explosion-proof grease cabinet to lubricate the radial wheel, axial boogie and axial boogie guiding of the world’s largest turret…

Deepwater cost challenges and opportunities

Oct 14, 2014

Deepwater exploration offers one of the few attractive places for today's international oil companies, but costs will need to be curbed to make it work, senior executives said in Aberdeen today (14 October). Total's…

Barents find for Lundin

Oct 14, 2014

Lundin Norway has found gas and oil in wildcat well 7220-11-1 on the Alta prospect in production license 609 in the Barents Sea.  The well was drilled about 20km northeast of the Gohta oil and gas discovery 7120/1-3 and about 190km northwest of Hammerfest…

Seventh Tanzanian gas find for Statoil

Oct 14, 2014

Statoil and its Tanzanian co-venture Exxon Mobil have made a seventh gas discovery offshore the prolific East African country. The Giligiliani-1 discovery contains some 1.2 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas in place, taking total In place volumes in Block 2 to about 21Tcf…

Wood Group to design Snorre TLP

Oct 14, 2014

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) contract by Statoil for the proposed Snorre C tension leg platform (TLP) to be located on the Norwegian continental shelf. Work is being conducted by…

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