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  • Aminex produces first gas from Kiliwani North

    6 April 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Aminex, an oil and gas production and development company, has announced first gas production from its Kiliwani North gas field in Tanzania. The Kiliwani North Development Licence is operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company with a 55.575% working interest, expected to reduce to 51.75% as a result of a partial disposal to Solo […]

  • Riverstone Injects USD 150 mln into Fairfield Energy (UK)

    9 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Fairfield Energy, the private, North Sea-focused independent oil & gas company, has agreed terms for a major new injection of equity from funds sponsored by Riverstone Holdings LLC, the energy and power-focused private equity firm. Riverstone will initially make a $150 million equity commitment with the option of subscribing a further $200 million alongside future […]

  • Repsol’s North Sea field secures life extension

    1 May 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Repsol has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for the life extension of a field in the North Sea off Norway.

  • VIDEO: COSCO lays hull keel for Energean’s Karish & Tanin FPSO

    18 April 2019
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Greek oil and gas company Energean has completed keel laying for the hull of the Energean Power FPSO in a Chinese shipyard.

  • Oil & gas unions challenge North Sea employers over cheap labor use

    31 May 2016

    Maritime and oil and gas unions affiliated to global federations IndustriAll and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) met in Aberdeen 19-20 May 2016 to begin development of an industrial and political strategy to challenge the replacement of quality jobs with cheap labor by employers in the North Sea. The group represents workers from Denmark, Norway and […]

  • Australia: Woodside Quarterly Production Climbs

    17 October 2013

    LNG player Woodside of Australia said its production in the third quarter was 21.9 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe), up 9.5% on Q2. The company’s sales revenue for the quarter was US$1,338 million. During the quarter the Browse Joint Venture participants agreed to progress BOD work in relation to the FLNG development concept to commercialise the […]

  • The Netherlands: Greenchoice and Delta to Buy Electricity from Typhoon Offshore

    19 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Energy companies Greenchoice and Delta are in talks with Typhoon Offshore, the developer of the mega wind farm Gemini, about using the huge amount of electricity that can be generated as from 2016. The Gemini is to start on the drawing board in 2013 . The planned wind farm will be 55 kilometers north of […]

  • In focus: Shoulder to shoulder towards a sustainable future

    1 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Project & Tenders, Transition

    In this In Focus column, we report on initiatives that reduce the ecological footprint of the offshore energy and maritime industry.

  • Rohde Nielsen’s new vessel hired for Baltic Pipe work

    26 May 2021
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Rohde Nielsen’s new multi-purpose vessel Grane R has secured its first job on the Baltic Pipe project. Grane R will carry out boulder removal, trench maintenance dredging, and backfilling for the gas pipeline between the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and Poland. For the boulder removal operations, the vessel’s crane is equipped with a […]

  • Graham Construction Bags New Port Deal (UK)

    17 February 2012

      Graham Construction has announced a £19m deal to build a new port in the north of England. The Company has also recently won business on major marine projects in Scotland including Kennacraig Ferry Terminal and Fife Energy Park. Graham will construct a new 250m jetty, a 195m pier jetty, a floating pontoon and a […]

  • Van Oord and Boskalis Part of IJmuiden Project

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Van Oord – operating in dredging, marine engineering and offshore energy (oil, gas and wind) sectors – has just confirmed that together with Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. will take part in the IJmuiden new lock project.  The dredging and dry earth works will be carried out by the Van Oord – Boskalis joint venture. The activities, carried […]

  • Innovation arrives at Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project with final monopiles

    1 June 2020
    Project & Tenders

    DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation has arrived at the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea with the final monopiles. Innovation picked up the monopiles last night at Sif Rotterdam, a spokesperson from DEME Offshore said. Sif was in charge of providing 47 monopiles for the project, with EEW SPC, the parent […]

  • DOF in New Deals for Skandi Seven and Skandi Skansen in Africa

    24 October 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DOF Subsea has secured two contracts totaling more than 160 vessel days for Skandi Seven and Skandi Skansen in Africa. Skandi Seven has started operations for a repeat international energy company in Angola, delivering integrated FSV services, project management and engineering. DOF Subsea will during this contract deliver onshore and offshore work scopes within deepwater […]

  • VIDEO: Second Jacket Stands Tall on Johan Sverdrup Field

    16 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The Johan Sverdrup field installation campaign in the North Sea has continued with ‘Vilje’ – the drilling platform jacket. The 21,300 tonnes steel structure was recently installed next to ‘Ægir’, the riser platform jacket set up last summer. The now second visible structure out on the Johan Sverdrup field was delivered by Kværner Verdal. The Norwegian […]

  • FairfieldNodal to Acquire Seismic Data in North Sea

    10 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Ocean bottom seismic specialist FairfieldNodal informed it will start back-to-back surveys in the North Sea in April this year. The company will be employing its Z700 seismic data acquisition system, designed specifically for ecologically sensitive environments and shallow waters crowded with infrastructure. The initial 4D survey will cover approximately 325 square kilometers on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), giving […]

  • Goliath Installs Jacket Pin Piles at Baltic 2 Offshore Wind Farm

    15 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    EnBW (Energie Baden-Württemberg AG), a German-based company, completed the installation of all jacket pin piles at Baltic 2 offshore wind farm. In an email statement the Company confirmed that the installation has been completed on the wind farm located about 32 km north of Ruegen Island in the western part of the Baltic Sea. As […]

  • Norway: Statoil to Use Island Constructor for North Sea Well Intervention

    21 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has received consent to use Island Constructor for light well intervention activities on Tordis and Vigdis. Light well intervention is cable-based well maintenance where a cable is run directly through sea and down in the well without using a riser, as opposed to when such work is carried out from a […]

  • Inpex: Drilling starts offshore Japan

    7 June 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Japan’s Inpex has started drilling an exploration well offshore Japan. The well was spudded on Sunday, June 5. The drilling operations are part of a project commissioned by the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan for the agency’s “Heisei 26~28 Domestic Offshore Drilling Program in Japan” […]

  • Faroe Petroleum gets green light to drill Brasse prospect (Norway)

    11 May 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore exploration company Faroe Petroleum will drill for hydrocarbons in the North Sea, offshore Norway, by using Transocean’s 1987-built semi-sub rig.  The oil industry safety body Petroleum Safety Authority Norway on Wednesday said it had granted Faroe Petroleum consent for exploration drilling over the companies production licence 740. PSA said the drilling of the the […]

  • CNOOC kicks off production in Bohai

    3 February 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    CNOOC Limited has announced that its Jinzhou 9-3 comprehensive adjustment project, in the Bohai Sea, off China, has started production. The Jinzhou 9-3 oilfield is located in the North Liaodong Bay in Bohai with the water depth in the range of 6.5~10.5 meters. The main production facilities of this adjustment project include one central processing […]

  • Total Hires ‘Prospector 5’ Rig for North Sea Drilling

    29 July 2013

    Prospector Offshore Drilling S.A. has executed a contract with Total E&P UK Limited and Elf Exploration UK Limited for offshore drilling services in the North Sea with its jack-up rig, “PROSPECTOR 5”. The Contract has an initial firm duration of 1095 days and Total will have the option to extend the initial firm duration by two periods of 12 […]

  • STX Finland to Construct Two Large Offshore Modules for North Sea

    13 October 2011
    Business & Finance

      STX Finland Oy has signed a contract for the construction of two large offshore modules for the North Sea. The modules will be delivered from STX Finland´s Turku Shipyard at the end of year 2012. The project will bring some 250 man-years of labour to Turku Shipyard. The construction of these two large modules […]

  • The Philippine Navy’s New Warship Starts Sea Trials

    21 May 2013

    The Philippine Navy’s new warship, the BRP Ramon Alcaraz, began sea trials on Monday, according to GMA News. The ship set sail from North Charleston, South Carolina at 8:30 a.m. Monday (US time). BRP Ramon Alcaraz was subjected to  refurbishment and refitting which cost $15.15 million. The maintenance started last year. The Philippine Navy’s Capt. […]

  • The Philippine Navy’s New Warship Begins Sea Trials

    21 May 2013

    The Philippine Navy’s new warship, the BRP Ramon Alcaraz, began sea trials on Monday, according to GMA News. The ship set sail from North Charleston, South Carolina at 8:30 a.m. Monday (US time). BRP Ramon Alcaraz was subjected to refurbishment and refitting which cost $15.15 million. The maintenance started last year. The Philippine Navy’s Capt. […]

  • Engie pens LNG deal with Kepco

    21 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Engie, former GDF Suez, and Kansai Electric, a Japanese power production company, have agreed to enter into a partnership agreement on liquefied natural gas.