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Subsea tie-backs: Aker BP Files Development Plan for Trell & Trine Discoveries

Aug 10, 2022

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP on Wednesday filed a plan for development and operation (PDO) for Trell & Trine offshore oil development project to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE). The Trell (production licence 102…

McDermott Nets Offshore Pipeline, Cable FEED Deal in Qatar

Aug 10, 2022

Offshore engineering and construction firm McDermott has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by QatarEnergy for the North Field South (NFS) Offshore Pipelines and Power/FO cables Project. The new contract is in addition…

LNG Traders Absorb Huge Losses After Supply Outages

Aug 10, 2022

Major energy traders are taking hundreds of millions of dollars in losses as they scramble to plug a liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply gap after several outages hampered efforts to fill European storage ahead of the winter heating season.Unplanned disruptions at LNG plants in the United States…

Petrobras Awards $130M Charter Extension for Sapura Esmeralda PLSV

Aug 10, 2022

Malaysia's Sapura Energy has, through a joint venture company, secured a charter extension with Brazil's Petrobras for the pipelaying support vessel (“PLSV”) Sapura Esmeralda. The contract is worth around RM580 million (around $130 million)…

Vietnam Needs $8B -$14B Power Investment a Year Through 2030 - minister

Aug 10, 2022

Vietnam will need investment of between $8 billion and $14 billion a year through to 2030 to develop new power plants and expand its grid, its deputy industry minister said on Wednesday.Of the amount, 75% would be spent on new power plants, with priority given to renewable sources…

ExxonMobil Taps Acorn for EIA Work on Fifth Offshore Development in Guyana

Aug 09, 2022

ExxonMobil has hired Acorn International, an environmental and risk management consultancy with offices in Boston and Houston, to perform an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and lead the public consultation program for the Uaru Project…

Equinor Gets Safety Body Consents for Two Norwegian Sea Projects

Aug 09, 2022

Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has this week received two consents from the offshore safety body Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to carry out works on two projects in the Norwegian Sea using the Transocean Encourage and Deepwater Stavanger offshore drilling rigs…

TDI-Brooks Adds New Tools to Shallow Water Geotechnical Kit

Aug 09, 2022

Marine survey specialist TDI-Brooks said Tuesday it had brought online a shallow water (<75-m) pneumatic vibracore (pVC) to supplement its other electric VC options (Feritech FT550 and Rossfelder P-5).  According to the company, the pVC is a lightweight (4…

Atlantic Towing PSVs Rescue Crew from Sinking Fishing Vessel

Aug 09, 2022

Two platform supply vessels (PSV) stationed in eastern Canada came to the rescue of a crew from a sinking fishing vessel off the coast of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, on Monday.Atlantic Towing said its PSVs Atlantic Griffon and Atlantic…

Capricorn Investor Palliser Calls on Management to Abandon Tullow deal

Aug 09, 2022

Capricorn Energy should ditch its proposed merger with Tullow Oil, investor Palliser has said in a letter seen by Reuters, describing it as 'one-sided' and short of 'meaningful strategic rationale.''The Proposed Merger appears to us to be a…

Equinor Extends Solstad Offshore PSV Charter

Aug 09, 2022

Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has secured a contract with Equinor for the platform supply vessel Normand Searcher.More precisely, Equinor has declared an option to extend the contract for the PSV for one more year to September 2023…

BW Energy Signs $300M Reserve Based Loan to Fund Work Offshore Gabon

Aug 09, 2022

Oil and gas company BW Energy has signed an up to $300 million international Reserve Based Lending (RBL) facility, to finance further development work in a block offshore Gabon.The facility has an initial commitment of $200 million which can be expanded up to an additional $100 million…

Oil Tank Platform Collapses, Oil Spills in Terrebonne Bay, Louisiana

Aug 09, 2022

The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to an oil spill after an oil tank platform collapsed at the Hilcorp Caillou Island facility in Terrebonne Bay, Louisiana, on Monday.Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Houma personnel initially received a notification…

Saipem in Talks to End Its Arctic LNG 2 Projects in Russia

Aug 08, 2022

Saipem is in talks to end two contracts related to Russia's $21-billion Arctic LNG 2 project led by Moscow-listed gas producer Novatek NVTK.MM, the Italian energy services group said in its interim financial statement.Saipem said its backlog in Russia amounted to approximately 1…

Keppel Terminates Semi-sub Rig, Jack-up Rig, and Liftboat Orders as Clients Fail to Pay Up

Aug 08, 2022

Singapore-based shipbuilder Keppel has terminated three construction contracts signed years ago, citing clients' failure to pay up. The terminated contracts are related to orders made by TS Offshore, Sapura Energy, and Crystal Heights. TS Offshore…

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