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Cairn Confident of Securing Sangomar Funding

Mar 11, 2020

London-listed oil and gas company Cairn Energy has provided an update of its operations including the progressing of the Sangomar Field Development offshore Senegal despite the having yet to attract the necessary funding for its share of the costs…

Valaris Drops BOP-Stack to Seafloor Offshore Angola

Mar 11, 2020

Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has informed that one of its drillships has been involved in an incident that included the accidental dropping of a Blowout Preventer Stack to the seafloor of Angola. The incident might cost the company the drilling contract…

Norwegian Oil Regulator Restricts Visits on Coronavirus Fears

Mar 11, 2020

Norway's oil and gas industry regulator has introduced restrictions with regard to the presence in its offices for persons who have been in areas with the prolonged spread of coronavirus.'If you have been in these areas during the last 14 days…

Petronas Selling Two Offshore Units at Online Marketplace

Mar 11, 2020

AllSurplus, an online auction marketplace owned by Liquidity Services, is currently marketing two offshore production units from Petronas in a private treaty sale.The company said Tuesday that the two assets are 30,000 BFPD Self-Elevating Mobile…

Triangle Resumes Cliff Head Output After Halt Caused By Electrical Fault

Mar 11, 2020

Triangle Energy has restarted production at the Cliff Head Alpha Platform offshore Western Australia, following a halt caused by an electrical fault in February.'Production resumed on 10 March 2020 and following a thorough testing and inspection program over the last 24 hours…

Oil Falls After Saudi Aramco Asked to Raise Output Capacity

Mar 11, 2020

Oil prices fell on Wednesday, giving up earlier gains, after Saudi Aramco said it had been directed by the energy ministry to raise its production capacity by a million barrels per day. Brent crude slid $0.41, or 1.1%, to $36.81 a barrel by 0740 GMT…

Eidesvik Bags Supply Vessel Work with Aker BP

Mar 11, 2020

Norwegian oil firm Aker BP has chartered a platform supply vessel from compatriot offshore vessel owner Eidesvik Offshore.Eidesvik Offshore said Wednesday that Aker BP had awarded it a contract for the 92,2-meters long Viking Lady offshore vessel under the framework agreement between the parties…

Oil Crash Makes Wind Power Firm Nordics' Biggest Energy Company

Mar 11, 2020

The oil price crash has led to Danish offshore wind developer Orsted overtaking Norwegian oil major Equinor as the most valuable energy company in the Nordics, highlighting the appeal to investors of renewables over fossil fuels. Shares in Equinor…

Coronavirus Case Confirmed on Equinor's Offshore Project in Norway

Mar 11, 2020

One person has tested positive on the coronavirus at Equinor's Martin Linge offshore platform in the Norwegian Part of the North Sea.'The person is not seriously ill. Equinor is in dialogue with the Norwegian health authorities about further measures…

Chevron Studies Spending, Production Cuts in Face of Oil Rout

Mar 10, 2020

Chevron said it is looking at ways to cut spending, which could lead to lower near-term oil and gas production, following the recent collapse in the oil price. The U.S. company is the first oil major to confirm it is reassessing its spending in the wake of the price collapse…

BP Taps TechnipFMC for Platina Field Subsea Hardware

Mar 10, 2020

Oilfield services firm TechnipFMC has said it won a 'significant' integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract from BP in Angola. For Technip - 'significant' contract is between $75 million and $250 million.Under the contract…

Cairn Ups Kraken Reserves Estimate

Mar 10, 2020

Cairn Energy on Tuesday revised up reserves at its British North Sea Kraken oil field, which is majority-owened by EnQuest, effectively reversing a $163 million impairment it had booked on a Kraken downgrade a year ago. Cairn, which owns 30% of Kraken…

Wintershall Dea Appoints New COO

Mar 10, 2020

Oil and gas company Wintershall Dea will name Dawn Summers to the Executive Board and as Chief Operating Officer (COO).As COO, she will be responsible for the Business Units Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, UK and Denmark, Egypt, Libya, Algeria and UAE as of 1 June 2020…

Neptune Energy Names UK MD

Mar 10, 2020

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has informed that Alexandra Thomas has joined the company as UK Managing Director, based in Aberdeen.Thomas joins Neptune from Tullow Oil plc, where she most recently held the position of Head of Exploration…

Ocean Installer Wins Subsea Cable Installation Job in China

Mar 10, 2020

Norway's offshore installation company Ocean Installer has won a deal to deliver and install a subsea power cable in China, as part of CNOOC Liuhua 16-2 oil field development in the South China Sea.In what is the company's second contract in China…

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