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Apollo joins marginal field initiative

May 03, 2015

ABT Oil & Gas (ABTOG) has signed a Collaboration Agreement Aberdeen based engineering firm Apollo Offshore Engineering on its marginal field delivery consortium. Apollo will join the Marginal Field Delivery Consortium providing expertise…

OTC15: MONOPOLY collector’s edition celebrates the offshore industry

May 01, 2015

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, Offshore Engineer (OE) and Hasbro Inc, an American multinational toy and game company, teamed up to create a custom MONOPOLY Game for the offshore industry.  The OE 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition MONOPOLY…

Huisman names Meijer CEO

May 01, 2015

Netherlands-based, Huisman announced today that André Meijer is appointed as CEO effective 1 August 2015. This appointment follows the decision of Joop Roodenburg to step down as the company’s CEO this year and become the company's chief technology officer…

James Fisher to buy Specialist Subsea Services' assets

May 01, 2015

James Fisher Offshore, part of James Fisher and Sons, has reached an agreement with KPMG in Scotland to acquire a number of subsea assets free from encumbrances from Specialist Subsea Services. The assets include work-class ROVs, inspection class ROV and survey equipment…

SIOFF agrees to Daya vessel sale

May 01, 2015

Siem Offshore (SIOFF) agreed to sell Siem Daya 1 to Daya for US$120 million. In addition, SIOFF is entitled to a 60/40 profit share in SIOFFs favor based on the profit Daya makes on the vessel limited to an additional $10 million…

BP in danger, Hess safe

May 01, 2015

In the words of a wildly popular weekly US television series: “BP, you are in danger. Hess…you’re safe!” Due to current low oil price realizations, BP's consolidated cash flows in 1Q fell to about US$1.9 billion, a significant fall from a year ago…

OTC15: Petrobras highlights pre-salt technologies

May 01, 2015

At the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Petrobras will receive the OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for Companies, Organizations, and Institutions – the highest recognition that an oil company can receive as an offshore operator…

Cape wins BP North Sea work

May 01, 2015

UK supermajor BP awarded Cape a US$153.5 million two-year contract to supply services on six North Sea assets and the Forties Pipeline Systems. According to Cape, the company will provide a range of core services, including access, insulation…

Oil & Gas UK gets new chief executive

May 01, 2015

Oil & Gas UK appointed Deirdre Michie as its new chief executive on 1 May 2015. Michie will replace Malcolm Webb who, following a brief handover period, formally retires on 31 May 2015.  Appointed by the board of Oil & Gas UK in February 2015…

Chariot gets Mauritania extension

May 01, 2015

Chariot Oil & Gas and partners secured a one-year extension on its current exploration phase of the C-19 license offshore Mauritania, North Africa. Map from Chariot.  As part of the extension…

From Russia with tough love

May 01, 2015

Hardfacing has been given a tungsten carbide boost thanks to chemical vapor deposition technology developed in Russia. Elaine Maslin explains. Hardide reactor loading to perform the CVD process…

Tracking floating production in Mexico

May 01, 2015

Bruce Crager profiles some of the floating production vessels already being used offshore Mexico, and highlights what is yet to come. FPSO Yùum K’ak’Náab is currently operating in the KMZ oilfield in the Bay of Campeche…

Shallow water hazards

May 01, 2015

Protecting, inspecting and repairing pipelines in the shallow waters of the Middle East isn’t as easy as it sounds. Elaine Maslin reports. McDermott’s DP2 offshore construction support vessel Thedbaud Sea in the Middle East…

All terrain trenching

May 01, 2015

Subsea trenching has become more versatile with Fugro and SMD’s Q1400. Mike Daniel explains. Launching the Fugro Q1400 trenching system. Photos from Fugro Subsea. It is important to bury wind farm cables…

Developing KMZ

May 01, 2015

Jerry Lee provides an overview of Mexico’s Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) heavy oilfield in the Bay of Campeche. Pemex’s Ku-S central processing installation at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield in the Bay of Campeche offshore Mexico…

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