Under a program organized by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), Doris Inc., the Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC) at Texas A&M University, and Sevan Marine have carried out further research and model scale…
BP has commenced a water injection project at its Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico that will extend the production life of one of its biggest fields in the area, and recover an additional 65 MMboe. Thunder Horse…
Woodside and partner Petrel Resources have received environmental approvals from the Department of Communications, Climate Change, & Natural Resources (formerly the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources) earlier this month…
Aqualis Offshore has been reappointed by United India Insurance Co. to provide marine warranty services to ONGC’s assets, offshore India. This is the third one-year contract Aqualis has received after the company first started working for United India Insurance and ONGC in 2014…
Primeline Energy has begun arbitration proceedings against China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) for continuing disputes over the development, production and sale of gas from the LS36-1 gas field in the East China Sea. Primeline, which has 49% stake in LS36-1 in Block 25/34…
Fugro has provided a spectrum of services to BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) to allow safe drilling and completion of five subsea wells in an area of strong currents. The services include wellhead motion (fatigue) monitoring, metocean measurements and positioning services…
TGS is expanding its multi-client library offshore Eastern Canada, with plans to acquire approximately 2000sq km of 3D seismic data, in partnership with PGS. The survey will be acquired utilizing the PGS GeoStreamer technology. Data acquisition will commence during the summer season 2016…
Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals has been awarded a contract by Statoil to supply the umbilical to the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field offshore Norway. This field is about 8km northwest of the Oseberg field center at block 30/9-30/6 on the Norwegian continental shelf…
Testing, inspection, certification and consulting engineering group Rina has purchased the Edif Group, which includes the ERA engineering consultancy and the NDE testing, inspection and certification business. Image of Salerno (right) and Tim Dunn…
Aberdeenshire-based ThinJack has entered into a deal with a Middle East oil and gas company for the removal of multiple well Christmas trees on surface platforms in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. The deal could be ThinJack’s largest ever agreement in the region…
The government of India is launching a small field bidding round this week that consists of 67 discovered small fields in 46 shallow water, deepwater, and onshore contract areas. The Discovered Small Field Bidding Round – 2016 will be launched tomorrow…
UK supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables JDR has been awarded a contract by GE Oil & Gas, on behalf of operator ONGC, for the Vashishta and S1 development project, offshore India. The Vashishta and S1 fields are in the KG Basin…
While Europe has been leading the charge in offshore wind development, the US and other regions including India are starting to build activity. In India, there are two main regions, the states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, on the west coast of India…
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has initiated a new project with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to capture the wealth of knowledge and experience amassed in Orkney through testing wave energy devices in real sea conditions. Results…
A RIP Industrial Services worker died over the weekend, after falling 12m from a Petrobras platform, offshore Brazil. According to the Sindipetro-NF workers’ union, Victor Geraldo Brito, 29, fell from the Cherne-2 platform (PCH-2), from 12m high and did not survive the impact…
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