WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries for project management consultancy (PMC) services for development of the R-Series gas field (D34). The field is in about 1800-2150m water depth, in Block KG-D6, about 70km…
Italy's Eni announced that its gas development offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP), Ghana, is 63% complete, with start-up planned for 2018. Eni said that construction on the onshore receiving facility and associated pipelines are proceeding as planned…
A UAE-based subsidiary of Malaysia's Eversendai Corp. has won an offshore fabrication project for Saudi Aramco. Eversendai Offshore received the project award, fabricating jacket structures, through Italy's Saipem, which is one of…
US drilling contractor Nabors Industries is nearing completion of its its acquisition of Tesco Corp. following anti-trust clearance from the US Department of Justice and the Canada Competition Bureau. An approval process with the Federal…
Chemicals and oil products firm INEOS, which has UK upstream assets, has awarded a two-year well testing contract to oilfield services company Expro. The contract will see Expro provide testing services for at least three wells, including two new drills and one re-entry…
Asset visualization specialists Return To Scene has won a new contract with North Sea independent Chrysaor. Return to Scene, part of James Fisher and Sons, will create photographic models of the Everest, Lomond and Armada platforms…
Statoil and its partners will invest US$122 million (NOK1 billion) in a new project to boost production from the Fram field in the Norwegian North Sea, in the Troll license area, the Norwegian major announced on 6 November. The investment…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has ordered Eni Norge to address issues related to electrical safety on the Goliat floating production storage and offloading vessel after an audit uncovered regulatory breaches. Last month, PSA…
Siccar Point Energy will sell to Dyas UK Limited its 26% equity interest in three production contract licenses covering the Jackdaw discovery in the central UK North Sea. While Jackdaw operator Shell has conducted excellent work progressing the opportunity…
Great Yarmouth-based oilfield and renewables firm ATAM Group is opening its second office in Aberdeen and planning to launch three new products. The firm was founded just last year and supplies tools and software products for maintenance…
The trophy for this year's Offshore Achievement Awards in Aberdeen has been picked, with less than a month to go now until entries close for the Society of Petroleum Engineers' organized event, supported by OE (Offshore Engineer). Each year the organizers of the awards…
Two UK engineering firms have joined forces to offer what they're calling a new project delivery alternative for North Sea operators. Aberdeen-based Apollo Offshore and Kintore-based AquaTerra Group say they want to offer an 'agile, lean and integrated engineering business' via FOS Group…
UK-based oil and gas exploration minnow i3 Energy says drilling is expected to start on its North Sea Liberator development in 1H 2018. The firm says 2P reserves on the field have been increased from an estimate of 11.7 MMboe, re-classified from 2C resources of 9…
ConocoPhillips has been asked to provide for more information about their plugging and abandonment operations in the Ekofisk field, specifically around how their permanent well barriers meet regulatory requirements from a long-term perspective…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered French oil major Total's deepwater Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel was completed at SHI's Geoje-shipyard under a US$3 billion turnkey project, and set sail for Nigeria on 31 October 2017…
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