In Houston, UTEC Survey promoted Cory Goodyear to the position of general manager after eight years with the company. Goodyear has 18 years’ offshore-related experience having started as a field surveyor before becoming a project manager…
Houston-based Transocean is one of the few major companies in the oil and gas industry to have a positive 2Q 2015, which was due to multiple factors including Macondo-related settlement agreements. Image from Transocean…
Soco International has signed a memorandum of understanding with PetroVietnam and SOVICO Holdings over potential exploration and production on Blocks 125-126, offshore Vietnam. Soco president and CEO Ed Story said: “SOCO began evaluation…
Egypt has announced the results of its delayed 2014 exploration bid round. The round sought to find companies to explore 10 areas in the Gulf of Suez, the Eastern Desert, and east and west of the Nile. Six of those area offshore in the south Gulf of Suez…
An official at the Iranian Offshore Oil Co. (IOOC) says the company has succeeded to increase crude oil production from Salman oil field in the Persian Gulf, which Iran shares with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Sanctions on Iran’s oil…
Aberdeen-based oil service company Global SCS today revealed further worldwide expansion. The firm, part of Scotland's Global Energy Group, has just opened an office in Dubai to handle growing demand for its services in the Middle East and Africa…
Rex International Holding Ltd. has announced that its jointly-controlled entity, Lime Petroleum Norway, signed an agreement with EnQuest Norge to acquire their 50% stake in licenses PL760 and PL760B in the Norwegian Sea. Following the transaction…
Norwegian giant Statoil’s Mariner field in the North Sea is a US$7 billion investment for the company. It is located in Block 9/11 on the East Shetland Platform, about 150km east of the Shetland Isles, and lies in water depths ranging between 97-112m…
Image from Aqualis Offshore Aqualis Offshore has been awarded a contracted by Mekers Offshore Ltd. to supervise the construction of the Zhejiang-based company’s two new liftboats…
Planning approval for offshore wind energy at Dogger Bank takes the total of consented projects in the North Sea zone to 4.8 Gw, almost equal to all the offshore wind capacity now in operation in the UK. Image…
Seaway Heavy lifting’s crane vessel Oleg Strashnov successfully installed the process unit (PU) topside for operator GDF SUEZ E&P UK (part of the ENGIE Group), and partners Centrica Energy and Bayerngas, setting a new company record. The…
BP has started a US$1 billion in its Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) in the North Sea as part of a platform renewal life extension project. The investment will see the facilities (pictured), which produce oil and gas from nine different reservoirs…
Image: Delfin LNG Bechtel announced it has been selected by Delfin LNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairwood Peninsula Energy Corp., to perform front-end engineering and design (FEED)…
A 'back-to-fundamentals' strategy is helping seismic firm Polarcus weather the storm, CEO Rod Starr said this morning. The firm's revenues are down 33% in 2Q, compared to the same period last year, at US$91.7 million, but the firm has…
Lundin's Edvard Grieg field is on track for first oil in 4Q this year despite a delay to the topside modules installation earlier this year (see video below). The firm has also drilled its latest successful appraisal well on the 185.8 MMboe gross reserves field…
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