Statoil and its partners Centrica and ExxonMobil have decided to extend production at the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea until 2020. Statoil said an active drilling program was contributing to the continued maturation of recoverable reserves on Statfjord…
ClampOn has been awarded a contract from Saipem for the supply of ClampOn Subsea CEM, Corrosion-Erosion Monitors. This is one of the largest contracts received by ClampOn to date. The CEM systems will be configured with the firm's…
Sea Trucks Group has won a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to provide an accommodation vessel for the Arkutun-Dagi Project, operated by Exxon Neftegas Limited, in Sakhalin, Russia. Sea Truck’s Jascon 25 vessel will be used for the project…
North Sea focused independent EnQuest's US$3.2billion plan to develop the Kraken heavy oil field has been given the go ahead. Kraken is in 108-125m water depth, about 135km east of Shetland, and is estimated to contain 137MM bbl gross reserves…
Technip was awarded contract work from Statoil for a subsea project related to the Edvard Grieg field, in PL338, Block 16/1 in the North Sea, about 180 km west of Stavanger, Norway. Statoil has made a call-off for the framework contract Technip has with Statoil for diving services…
International tidal technology and project developer Atlantis Resources Limited bought MeyGen, Europe’s largest tidal power project. Atlantis already held 10% of the company developing the project, MeyGen Limited. It has now bought…
Natural gas from future multi-train LNG developments in Tanzania could now be destined for Asian markets. Singapore-based investor Pavilion Energy is to take a 20% in the joint venture partnership looking to develop natural gas finds in Blocks 1…
Petroceltic International has said its Cobalcescu South-1 exploration well in the Romanian Black Sea will be plugged and abandoned as non-commercial. The well was designed to test a prospect located in the southwestern part of the Est Cobalcescu (Block EX-28…
Engineering group AMEC has been awarded the hook up and commissioning (HUC) support contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development. The HUC support contract for the four Cygnus platforms follows on from a front end engineering…
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) says it has completed the first full-scale simultaneous acquisition of towed streamer EM and 2D GeoStreamer seismic. The program consisted about 3000 line km of seismic and towed streamer EM data, acquired over a four week period this summer…
Since the turn of the millennium, global pipeline investment has undergone sustained and, in recent years, robust growth as a result of favorable market conditions and industry trends, including: the continued high levels of investment in offshore development…
South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. launched SCF Melampus, the first of two ice-class LNG carriers ordered by Sovcomflot OJSC. The first vessel is to be delivered in late 2014; the second in early 2015. STX signed the $400million contract to build the two 170…
Halvorsen Kanfa-Tec recently finished and shipped four 20MW Circular Waste Heat Recovery Units (WHRU) to Mexico. The highly efficient WHRUs, in terms of weight and volume, will be utilized by Pemex in the Cantarel Complex in the Gulf of Mexico…
Norway's Halvorsen Group AS, specializing in providing topside processing equipment and engineering services to the international offshore oil & gas industry, is planning further expansion following a substantial strategic investment from Blue Water Energy…
A government-commissioned report into the future of the UK’s oil and gas industry has recommended the creation of a new industry-funded arms-length regulatory body with powers similar to those seen in Norway and the Netherlands. The…
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