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Semco-Bladt JV To Build Substation For Mayflower Wind

Jan 15, 2020

Mayflower Wind Energy has hired a Semco-Bladt joint venture to build and deliver a substation for the Mayflower Wind project offshore Nantucket, Massachusetts.Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime have formed a joint venture for the design and construction of the 1…

Jadestone To Drill At Montara In Q2

Jan 15, 2020

Jadestone Energy has filed plans for drilling operations expected to start this year at its Montara oil field offshore Australia. The Montara field, which Jadestone bought in October 2018, lies approximately 690 kilometers east of Darwin in…

Petrobras Exits Africa As Nigeria-Focused Business Sold for $1.5B

Jan 15, 2020

Brazilian oil company Petrobras has sold its Nigeria-focused subsidiary for around $1,5 billion.Petrobras said Wednesday it had completed the sale of its 50% equity interest held in Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V.  (PO&GBV).PO&GBV has assets in Nigeria…

Borr Drilling Takes Delivery of Newbuild Jack-Up From Keppel

Jan 15, 2020

Offshore drilling contractor has taken delivery of a newbuild jack-up rig from Singapore's Keppel. This is Keppel's first rig delivery in 2020.Keppel said Wednesday that the offshore drilling rig, named Heimdal, was built to Keppel's KFELS B…

BW Energy Oslo Listing Set For 1Q 2020

Jan 15, 2020

BW Offshore's exploration and production subsidiary BW Energy is gearing up for an initial public offering of shares in the first quarter of 2020, and listing on the Oslo exchange an independent company.BW Energy was established by the FPSO…

Leviathan Gas Flows to Egypt

Jan 15, 2020

Gas from the Leviathan gas field offshore Israel has started flowing to Egypt, Delek, a partner in the giant development, has said.The $3.6 billion development operated by US-based Noble Energy started producing gas in the last week od December 2019…

Aker Solutions Wins $400M Offshore Maintenance Award

Jan 15, 2020

Offshore energy services provider Aker Solution has said it has been issued a letter of award for an offshore maintenance project with an undisclosed client.The Norwegian company said the letter of award for offshore maintenance and modification…

Tullow in $1.5B Writedown On Oil Price Outlook, Exploration

Jan 15, 2020

Tullow Oil expects to report a $1.5 billion writedown after lowering its long-term oil price assumptions by $10 to $65 a barrel, an announced reduction in reserves in Ghana and disappointing exploration wells, it said on Wednesday.'Tullow expects…

Tower Gets More Time for Cameroon Drilling

Jan 15, 2020

Tower Resources has been given more time to explore at the Thali license in Cameroon.Tower said Wednesday that the country's authorities had granted it a one-year extension to the initial period of the exploration phase of the Thali PSC as requested by Tower…

Aker Solutions in Study to Electrify North Sea Platforms

Jan 15, 2020

Norway's Equinor has awarded a front-end engineering (FEED) study to Aker Solutions for the electrification of the Troll B and C platforms in the North Sea from shore, with the aim to reduce CO2 emissions from the field.The contract includes an option for the engineering…

Modec Eyes Major Brazil Contracts

Jan 14, 2020

Japanese floating equipment maker Modec Inc is looking to win one or two major platform contracts per year in Brazil as it aims to grow in the country's offshore oil boom, a senior executive told Reuters.A string of contracts in recent years has made Brazil a key market for the firm…

Eni's Coral Sul FLNG hull launched

Jan 14, 2020

Italian oil and gas company Eni has launched the hull of its Coral Sul FLNG unit at Samsung's Geoje yard in South Korea.Once completed the FLNG unit will be deployed over Eni's Coral reservoir in Area 4 offshore Mozambique and will be used to…

Dayang Clinches Two i-HUC Awards With Petronas

Jan 14, 2020

Malaysian oilfield services provider Dayang has won two contracts with the country's oil and gas giant Petronas.Dayang said Tuesday that the contracts were for the provision of integrated hook-up and commissioning (i-HUC) services for Petronas Carigali through Package B: SBA and Package D: SKO…

Lebanon Delays Offshore Round Bidding Deadline

Jan 14, 2020

Lebanon has postponed a deadline for the submission of applications as part of its second licensing round for oil and gas acreage, Lebanon's energy minister Nada Boustani tweeted Monday.According to Reuters, which translated the tweet in Arabic…

Norway: 28 firms Offered Acreage in Mature Offshore Areas

Jan 14, 2020

Norway has offered exploration acreage in mature offshore areas to 28 companies of 33 which had applied as part of the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2019.The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Tuesday that 28 oil companies had been offered…

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