Sembcorp Marine delivered the world’s largest jackup rig, the Noble Lloyd Noble, to Noble Corp. after uncertainties in the delivery date due to damage the rig endured in February. Illustration of the Noble Lloyd Noble…
The 12th Annual Deepwater Intervention Forum (DIF), presented by OE, kicks off in Galveston, Texas, this 9-11 August, which will feature industry-leading experts from the subsea intervention space. DIF exhibit hall in 2015…
SBM Offshore shows its fleet of floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessels and operations offshore Brazil, in particular its Brasa yard in Niteroi (near Rio de Janiero). OE profiled the yard in 2013. The company’s latest FPSO…
Drilling operations have been suspended at Husky Energy’s North Amethyst field offshore Canada, after a leak occurred today (15 July), according to the Canada-Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB). The Henry Goodrich…
Houston-based AFGlobal Corp. has agreed to acquire Managed Pressure Operations (MPO), a subsidiary of MHWirth. The resulting combination of companies will offer technologies covering both onshore and offshore applications, including deepwater managed pressure drilling (MPD)…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has notified companies holding oil and gas leases in federal waters that it is updating financial assurance and risk management requirements to ensure that US taxpayers never have to pay for decommissioning…
Ezion Investments (EIPL), a subsidiary of Singapore's Ezion Holdings, has formed a joint venture agreement with Pacific International Offshore (PIO) to work together to provide additional assets to an existing client, a national oil company…
Fugro has been awarded a geotechnical site investigation contract by ONGC India for the KG-DWN-98/2 project on the East Coast of India. The purpose of the work is to gather site specific geotechnical and geohazard data to aid in the design and later installation of wellheads…
DONG E&P Norge is divesting its shares of five Norwegian oil and gas fields to Faroe Petroleum in a US$70.2 million deal, as Faroe moves to raise $81 million (£60.8 million) to fund the acquisition, as well as accelerate its Brasse discovery towards development…
The US$12 million (€11 million) FORESEA project is bringing together European ocean energy test facilities to help demonstration of tidal, wave and offshore wind energy technologies in real-sea conditions. The project is funded by the Interreg NWE (North-West Europe) program…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has carried out four successful ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) dives and has acquired depth data (bathymetry) near the Vøring Spur in the western Norwegian Sea. Figure 1…
Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. has achieved first gas production from its new Alba B3 offshore compression platform, offshore Equatorial Guinea, which will help more than double the company’s remaining proved developed reserve base in the West Africa area…
Keppel Offshore & Marine US subsidiary Keppel AmFELS delivered the Uxpanapa jackup to Mexico's Central Panuco, a subsidiary of Perforadora Central. The rig was christened at Keppel AmFELS' yard in Brownsville, Texas. Uxpanapa is the fifth…
Norwegian independent Det norske is gearing up for imminent offshore module installation works on its Ivar Aasen development offshore Norway this month. The firm, which is due to become part of new firm Aker BP, says the the project is on time and budget with planned start-up in Q4…
UK explorer Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) is due to spud an appraisal well on the Skipper oil discovery next week. The Skipper prospect, 100% owned by IOG, is in Block 9/21a in license P1609 in the northern North Sea. IOG says success of the well would be 'transformational' for the company…
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