The US Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) has appointed Walter Cruickshank, Ph.D., as the acting director. Image of Cruickshank, from BOEM. As deputy director, and currently acting director of BOEM…
Petrofac has been given a four and a half year contract extension on its integrated support services contract on the Cygnus gas field. The extension to December 2021 is worth about US$70 million and includes the provision of enhanced construction services and production supervision…
Large, highly enriched accumulations of natural gas hydrates have been discovered in the Bay of Bengal, India, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). It is the first discovery of its kind in the Indian Ocean that has the potential to be producible…
Petrofac has been appointed well operator by Hurricane Energy in a three-year contract to support wells located West of Shetland. Petrofac is the first outsourced well operator to manage a drilling campaign in the UK Continental Shelf…
Petrofac is set to build on its provision of reimbursable services for Total E&P UK following the award of an enhanced three-year contract extension on the Alwyn and Dunbar platforms in the Northern North Sea. The contract, worth in the region of US$100 million…
Oil & Gas UK, the representative organization for the UK offshore oil and gas industry, announced the appointment of a number of member company representatives and a new team of officers to lead its board. All changes are of immediate effect…
Petrofac is supporting Tullow Oil on its decommissioning program for the Horne and Wren platform in the Southern North Sea. The role sees Petrofac, which has been duty holder on the platform for more than 10 years, move into well plugging and abandonment operations on the field…
Petrofac has been appointed as duty holder to support UK joint venture Anasuria Operating Co. (AOC) to take over operatorship of Anasuria cluster in the North Sea. Anasuria Operating Co. is a joint venture company formed between Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad and Ping Petroleum…
Oilfield services firm Petrofac has been appointed duty holder on the Anasuria cluster, in the UK North Sea. The role is in support of the Anasuria Operating Company (AOC), a UK joint venture formed between Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad (Hibiscus) and Ping Petroleum (Ping)…
BSEE has proposed a new well control rule that the agency says will make operating in the Gulf of Mexico safer. But, the industry disagrees, and now it has two studies to prove it. Audrey Leon sets out the detail. At…
Egil Haugsdal has been promoted to president of Kongsberg Maritime, following current president Geir Håøy, who will assume the position of CEO of Kongsberg in June 2016. Haugsdal holds extensive leadership experience from Kongsberg, and currently heads Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies…
Kongsberg CEO, Walter Qvam, will resign from his position in June 2016, according to the agreement he has for resignation at the age of 63. “Qvam has been CEO since 2008,” said Finn Jebsen, Kongsberg's chairman of the board. “The board…
Petrofac has won contract extensions from its customers on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) totaling US$400 million. Petrofac secured a two-year extension from Centrica Storage to its Services contract on the 8A platform in the Rough field…
US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Director Brian Salerno testified today (1 December) before a US congressional committee on Energy and Natural Resources defending a new well control rule, 30 CFR Part 250 released earlier this year…
Walter Oil & Gas announced the installation of the recently completed Coelacanth Field platform at Ewing Bank Block 834 (EW 834) in the Gulf of Mexico. Image of Coelacanth Field’s platform heading to sea…