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12 March 2020
Equinor has awarded IKM Ocean Design a Pipeline Study for Ultra Deepwater in Brazil
CEO of IKM Ocean Design, Peder Hoås, says they are very proud to support Equinor in the development phase of this internationally important ultra-deep-water field. This work will be a continuation of the IKM Ocean Design commitment to support Equinor’s major projects with innovative and cost-effective solutions, which has been…
11 March 2020
Kenzfigee To Deliver Two Cranes For Neart Na Gaoithe Wind Farm
KenzFigee has been awarded a contract by HSM Offshore, in close cooperation with Iv-Offshore & Energy, for delivery of two 3-tons electric hydraulic Ram Luffing offshore cranes destined for the ESB and EDF Renewables owned offshore topside platform Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm.Both heavy duty 1300 type Ram Luffing…
11 March 2020
Ocean Installer Awarded Installation Contract In China
Ocean Installer has been awarded a contract for Subsea Power Cable Installation for the CNOOC Liuhua 16-2 Oil Field Development in the South China Sea.The work scope encompasses Project Management, Engineering, transportation and Installation as well as various other support functions to the client’s engineering team. This is the company’s…
11 March 2020
Fugro And NOAA Collaborate On New "Oportunsitic" Aprroach to EEZ Mapping
Fugro has partnered with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA OER) to establish a new ‘opportunistic’ approach for mapping deepwater areas of the US Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).As Fugro’s survey vessels transit to project sites through NOAA-identified areas of interest, remote command…
11 March 2020
MRO Announces $500 Million Reduction to 2020 Capital Budget, Prioritizing Financial Flexibility and Dividend
In light of the dramatic fall in commodity prices, Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) has announced an immediate capital spending reduction of at least $500 million relative to its previously communicated 2020 capital spending budget of $2.4 billion. The revised capital spending budget of $1.9 billion or less represents an approximate…
11 March 2020
Rockrose Energy PLC ("RockRose") Development drilling campaign
Rockrose Energy plc (LSE: RRE) (the "Company"), the independent oil and gas company, is pleased to announce the first of two infill development wells at West Brae (RockRose 40% and operator) has successfully completed and is delivering in line with expectations.Following completion of this well, the Noble Houston Colbert jack-up…
11 March 2020
Aker BP - Consent for use of Skogul
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given Aker BP consent to use the facilities on the Skogul field in the North Sea.Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given Aker BP consent to use the facilities at Skogul. The field is a subsea development tied to the Alvheim FPSO, via the Vilje South…
11 March 2020
Drilling permit for well 35/10-5 in production licence 827 S
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for well 35/10-5, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.Well 35/10-5 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility in position 61 11’07.06’’ N and 03 15’10.86’’ E.The drilling programme for well 35/10-5 relates to the…
11 March 2020
Environmental Statement Submitted for Evelyn Development
Tailwind is working towards committing to development of the Evelyn field located in the Central North Sea. The first phase of development will consist of a single well, subsea tie-back to the Triton FPSO, with first oil expected by the end of 2022.Ensuring that environmental matters have been fully considered…
10 March 2020
Global Offshore Announces Contract To Install Cable At The Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm
Global Offshore, a leading provider of cable installation, repair and trenching services to the offshore renewables, utilities and oil & gas markets and part of the Global Marine Group, has announced the contract award for cable installation and burial at the Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm for Spanish developer and…
10 March 2020
Awilco Drilling : Contract Signed with Petrofac
With reference to the press release of 30 January 2020, Awilco Drilling PLC has confirmed that a contract has been signed with Petrofac Facilities Management Limited (Petrofac) for the provision of WilPhoenix for a three well Plug & Abandonment program on Rubie and Renee. The program has an estimated duration…
10 March 2020
Solstad : New contract for Far Stream
Solstad Offshore ASA (“SOFF”) is pleased to announce that the AHTS Far Stream (UT712L, 2006 built) has been contracted to a major Malaysian operator to support a drilling program of six wells. Commencement of the contract is during March 2020 and the estimated duration is 285 days. In addition, the…
10 March 2020
Chevron and National Decommissioning Centre Sign Partnership Agreement
Chevron Corporation (CVX) and The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) have signed an agreement that will support research at the NDC through to 2023. The anchor partnership will fund a portfolio of research projects that will aim to better quantify the environmental impacts of decommissioning and provide guidance on best options…
10 March 2020
Shearwater GeoServices enters deepwater OBS market with Gulf of Mexico award
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) is pleased to announce the award of a major ocean bottom-seismic deepwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) project by TGS and Schlumberger in the Gulf of Mexico, USA. The award confirms Shearwater’s position as the leading geophysical service company.This will be Shearwater’s first OBS ROV survey…
10 March 2020
Fugro In France Relocates Its Paris Office
On 24 February, Fugro in France relocated to a modern office space, Espace Le Carillon, close to the central business district of La Défense in Paris, thus achieving another milestone in its ambitious plan to enhance Fugro’s presence in FranceSaid Claude Descharles, Director for France and Southern Europe: “This new…
10 March 2020
TechnipFMC Awarded a Significant Integrated EPCI (iEPCI™) Contract for the BP Platina Field in Angola
TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) (PARIS:FTI) (ISIN:GB00BDSFG982) has been awarded a significant(1) integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCI™) contract from BP Angola for the Platina field development, located offshore Angola in Block 18 at water depths ranging from 1,200 to 1,500 meters.The contract covers the manufacture, delivery and installation of the subsea…
9 March 2020
TGS Announces Next Phase of Ultra-long Offset Node Projects in U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Following the highly successful Amendment Phase 1 project acquired in Mississippi Canyon in 2019, TGS, in partnership with Schlumberger, announced the second phase of their ultra-long offset node project in U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The next phase will extend the footprint of ultra-long offset data to the Northern Green Canyon…
9 March 2020
PGS Delivers on Fast Track Promise with GeoStreamer X Viking Graben
An early-out PSDM multi-azimuth (MAZ) stack is now available, just 16 weeks after completion of the GeoStreamer X Viking Graben survey, in a time scale comparable to conventional single azimuth processing. From acquisition through to imaging, GeoStreamer X has delivered on its promise of a significantly faster method of achieving…
9 March 2020
BW Energy: Tortue Phase 2 producing as expected
BW Energy (BWE) has announced first oil from the DTM-4H Gamba well drilled as part of Tortue Phase 2 development project (Phase 2) in the Dussafu Marin Permit offshore Gabon. The well successfully commenced production on 7 March. Start of production from DTM-4H was only three days after first oil…
9 March 2020
Serica Energy plc (“Serica” or the “Company”) Bruce Platform Restart
Serica Energy plc (AIM: SQZ) is pleased to announce that production has restarted from the Bruce platform.As previously announced on 30 January 2020, production was halted on Bruce whilst engineering work was carried out to secure an unused caisson, which was found to be in a deteriorated condition. The engineering…
9 March 2020
ABB wins digital service contract to increase offshore wind reliability
ABB has won a 10.6 million euro order for ABB Ability™ digital products and services at DolWin5 (Epsilon), which will support Germany’s energy transition through reliable delivery of enough renewable energy to power about one million homes.ABB will enable the reliability, safety and security of the energy transmission from DolWin5…
9 March 2020
AqualisBraemar awarded major contract for offshore wind engineering services
Offshore Wind Consultants Ltd (“OWC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of AqualisBraemar ASA (“AqualisBraemar” or the “Company”), has entered into a contract to provide engineering services for an offshore wind development project on the UKCS with an undisclosed client.The contract is for a term of approximately three years, and the scope…
9 March 2020
Strong start to 2020 for Sentinel Marine with £36m contract wins and extensions
Offshore support vessel specialist Sentinel Marine has experienced a strong start to the year with a £36 million package of contract awards and extensions to operate its fleet of emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRVs) in the North Sea.The Aberdeen-based firm has invested in excess of £150 million building a…
9 March 2020
LOC supports the construction and completion of the Turkstream International Gas Pipeline
LOC Group, the premier international marine and engineering consulting firm, is pleased to announce it has recently completed Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) services in support of the construction of the Turkstream gas pipeline, which was commissioned in January 2020. LOC was contracted by South Stream Transport B.V. in 2014 to…
9 March 2020
Babcock wins major new North Sea helicopter contract
Babcock’s Offshore business has secured a new five-year shared contract with three oil and gas operators for helicopter transport in the northern North Sea.The contract will initially see Babcock operate over 100 helicopter flights each month from Sumburgh in Shetland, on behalf of CNR International, EnQuest and TAQA. Flights are…
9 March 2020
Northern Lights well completed
Equinor and partners Shell and Total have completed the drilling of confirmation well 31/5-7 Eos south of the Troll field in the North Sea. The purpose was to determine the suitability of the reservoir in the Johansen formation for CO₂ storage. “This is an important milestone in realising the possibility…
9 March 2020
Fugro Secures Large Marine Survey Contract On Inpex's Abadi Lng Project
INPEX Masela, Ltd. (INPEX), a subsidiary of INPEX CORPORATION, has awarded Fugro a large marine survey contract for the Abadi liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia.Fugro will perform geophysical and geotechnical surveys and the associated studies needed to support front-end engineering design (FEED) for offshore production facilities and the…
9 March 2020
Framo First long-term smart contract signed
Aker BP and Framo have entered into a long-term contract for seawater lift pumps where compensation is directly linked to facility uptime. This is an important step in the modernisation of the Norwegian shelf.In 2018, the two companies and the technology company Cognite embarked upon a digital pilot effort for…
9 March 2020
Tendeka : Multi-million-pound scope to supply sand-face completion for Aker BP
Independent global completions service company Tendeka has received a Letter of Intent for a substantial multi-million-pound scope to supply sand-face completion equipment to Aker BP’s Norwegian assets.Over the next three years, the existing frame agreement will see Tendeka deliver its sand screens and FloSure Autonomous Inflow Control Devices (AICDs) to…
9 March 2020
Cook and Johansen Formations are good candidates for CO2 storage – 31/5-7
Equinor Energy AS, operator of exploitation licence 001, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 31/5-7.The well has been drilled 17.5 kilometres southwest of Troll A in the northern part of the North Sea, about 100 kilometres west of Bergen.The objective of the well was to…
9 March 2020
Hurricane Energy plc ("Hurricane" or the "Company") GWA Joint Venture Agreements Update
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, provides an update in relation to the commercial arrangements with its joint venture partner in the Greater Warwick Area ("GWA"), Spirit Energy ("Spirit").As part of the farm-in announced on 3 September…
5 March 2020
Ocean Harvesting new member of the GCE Ocean Energy cluster in Norway
Ocean Harvesting are now a proud member of GCE Ocean Energy, a part of the government supported Norwegian Innovation Clusters programme. The main goal of the programme is to increase value creation through sustainable innovation. The GCE-programme is administrated through a cooperation between Innovation Norway, SIVA, and the Norwegian Research…
5 March 2020
Prysmian secures over €150 million offshore wind grid connection project in France by RTE
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract worth over €150 million by Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE) for the development of two submarine and land export power cable systems to connect the offshore wind farm located in between the islands…
5 March 2020
Island Offshore 24.500 metres of 84 mm chain
Island Victory has just finished mobilizing for her first campaign in the Barents Sea. 24.500 metres of 84 mm chain was loaded, equivalent to 3.773 tonnes, as well as 16 anchors weighing 18 tonnes each. No other vessel can compete with this capacity - loading two complete anchor spreads in…
5 March 2020
South Marsh Island 71 F4 Well Completed, SM71 F5 Commences
Byron Energy Limited has provided an update on the Company operated SM71 F4 and F5 wells.As announced on 13th February 2020, the Byron operated SM71 F5 well reached a final total depth of 81,30 feet Measured depth (MD) and 7,570 feet True Vertical (TVD) and logged 91 feet of net…
5 March 2020
TGS Announces Delivery of Milestone Utsira OBN Project in North Sea
TGS, a leading provider of multi-client geoscience data for exploration & production (E&P) companies, today announced that processing of the northern half of its landmark ocean-bottom node (OBN) multi-client survey in the Norwegian North Sea is complete and has been delivered to pre-funding customers. Data processing will be complete for…
5 March 2020
BW Energy Limited : Dussafu – Tortue Phase 2 first oil as DTM-5H Gamba well brought on production
BW Energy (BWE) is pleased to announce first oil from the Tortue Phase 2 field development project (Phase 2) in the Dussafu Marin Permit offshore Gabon. The Gamba well DTM-5H was successfully brought online as of 4 March, ahead of schedule. The second well, DTM-4H, is scheduled to come onstream…
5 March 2020
Nigg Oil Terminal Jetty Operational Control Transferred to Global Energy Group
Global Energy Group has reached agreement with Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd and have taken over the long-term operation of the Nigg Oil Terminal jetty under a new lease with Crown Estates Scotland which came into effect on the 28th February 2020.Under the agreed deal, the jetty will be operated…
5 March 2020
Equinor and Shell collaborate on digital solutions
The companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on digital collaboration to develop solutions and methods together through the exchange of expertise within areas like data science, artificial intelligence and 3D printing.The collaboration is expected to entail co-innovation across the whole value chain, such as maintenance, production optimisation and supply…
4 March 2020
Foundation Piling Operations Completed At Moray East Offshore Wind Farm
DEME Offshore is pleased to announce thatits work on the foundation structures for the Moray East Offshore Wind Farm has reached another key milestone, with all 37,000 tonnes of pin piles for the project now installed in the Moray Firth concession area.Having designed the piles to contend with a complex…
4 March 2020
Nexans awarded a significant Purchase Order to supply the HV submarine power cables for Marjan field in Arabian Gulf
Nexans was awarded a significant Purchase Order to supply 180 km of 230 kV cables for the offshore Marjan increment development mega-project on the eastern coast of the Arabian Gulf.Discovered in 1967, the Marjan field is one of the oldest and biggest offshore oil and gas fields in the Arabian…
4 March 2020
PGS Commences GeoStreamer X Survey in Campos Basin
PGS is back in Brazil in 2020 with a Ramform Titan-class vessel, to acquire the first GeoStreamer X MultiClient 3D seismic survey in the region. The Campos Deepwater GeoStreamer X project will deliver high-quality, long offset, multi-azimuth seismic data over the deepwater portion of northern Campos Basin. First data will…
4 March 2020
Intermoor Installs New ESP System For The Mampu-1 FPSO Facility, Malaysia
InterMoor recently transported and installed a new electrical submersible pump (ESP) system as part of the MaMPU-1 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility upgrade for a wellhead platform project, in Malaysia.The work for MISC Offshore Floating Terminals Dua Limited (MOFT2), a subsidiary of MISC Berhad, included project management, engineering…
4 March 2020
Global E&C Acquires Magma Products Ltd (Magma)
Brownfield Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) provider Global E&C has acquired 100% share capital in commissioning specialists Magma.Global E&C was established in March 2019, following the majority acquisition of Apollo by Global Energy Group (GEG) and the subsequent amalgamation of GEG’s brownfield EPC business with Apollo’s brownfield modifications engineering team.…
4 March 2020
Nel and Kvaerner enters into strategic collaboration agreement
Nel ASA (Nel, OSE:NEL) and Kværner ASA (Kværner, OSE:KVAER) has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement. The companies will collaborate on specific green hydrogen projects and standardisation of solutions for large scale hydrogen production plants.In the agreement, the companies have identified a range of projects on which to collaborate on…
4 March 2020
Subsea UK partners with non-profit to protect the oceans
Subsea UK has teamed up with one of the world’s leading non-profit ocean protection organisations to promote and support initiatives to prevent pollution of our oceans. The trade body has partnered with Big Blue Ocean Cleanup to support its ocean protection project and raise awareness of the initiative across the…
4 March 2020
Sandvik Wins First Steel Tube Umbilical Order in Brazil’s Mero Oilfield
Sandvik has won the first large scale stainless steel umbilical tube order in Brazil’s pre-salt Mero oilfield. The milestone contract is significant for the offshore Brazilian oil and gas industry, which typically uses thermoplastic hose umbilicals. It will consist of over 500 kilometers of Sandvik’s super duplex Sandvik SAF 2507®…
3 March 2020
SeaBird Exploration: update on the “Petrel Explorer”
Seabird Exploration has received a notice of extension of the «Petrel Explorer» time charter party. The charter period is now firm until 31 May 2020.Furthermore, the Company has received indicative bid interest from a prospective buyer of the vessel. Given the positive market backdrop, the Company`s preferred strategy for the…
3 March 2020
Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore US Gulf of Mexico
Subsea 7 announced the award of a substantial(1) contract by Murphy Exploration and Production Company - USA for the subsea installation services related to the Samurai, Khaleesi, and Mormont developments tying back to the King’s Quay semi-submersible. The King’s Quay host facility is approximately 175 miles south of New Orleans…
3 March 2020
Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore Australia
Subsea 7 announced the award of a large (1) contract by ConocoPhillips Australia Barossa Pty Ltd to deliver the SURF scope for the Barossa Project (2). The Barossa field is located 300 km offshore Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.Subsea 7’s scope of work includes project management, engineering, procurement,…