Saudi Aramco today (9 November) announced several contract awards, including three for fields in the Arabian Gulf offshore Saudi Arabia. The company has awarded Jacobs Engineering an engineering and project management services contract for the offshore Zuluf field development program…
Halliburton announced today (9 November) that it worked with the Akwa Ibom state government to inaugurate and open Nigeria’s first oil and gas training center fully-equipped with oilfield operations tools. The Akwa Ibom Oil and Gas Training…
The control room for Statoil’s first platform to be remotely operated from land opened today (9 November) at Sandsli in Bergen, Norway. Source: Statoil “We have had land-based surveillance and control of offshore operations for a long time…
UK subsea company Rovco has been awarded a three-year contract to support one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms, Gwynt y Môr, which lies 8mi off the coast of North Wales in the UK. Rovco will be providing an underwater ROV 3D visual survey solution…
Production has started from the Hail oil field offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, says Abu Dhabi Oil Co., a subsidiary of Japan's Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production Co. The production from the Hail oil field is the first…
BP and Husky Energy have been awarded acreage in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin offshore eastern Canada. The two companies bid approximately US$11.8 million (CAD$15 million) for the first of three parcels of 784,329 acres (317,407 hectares) offered…
Two people were injured after a fire broke out on supermajor Shell's Enchilada platform in the US Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday morning, according to a joint report by the US Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)…
Statoil has awarded Norwegian firm Multiconsult a for site preparation and marine structures for Statoil's carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project offshore Norway. The project, called Northern Lights by Statoil, will see…
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…
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