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  • Chevron in Australian domestic gas deal

    28 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Chevron’s Australian unit has signed another deal with aluminium producer Alcoa for the delivery of domestic natural gas from its LNG projects. Starting in January 2024, Chevron said it would supply Alcoa with an additional 37 petajoules of equity domestic gas over a “multi-year term.” The supply deal follows an existing agreement signed by Chevron […]

  • Hudson River Dredging Kicks Off (USA)

    10 May 2012

    The Hudson River cleanup project yesterday entered its third year of dredging. As during the 2011 season, three to four dredges will be working at any given time, 24 hours a day and six days a week, until early November, according to Mark Behan, a spokesman for General Electric Co. Behan said the weather has […]

  • TSHD Magdalen Starts Her First Project

    10 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Weeks Marine’s new hopper dredge Magdalen has arrived in Buxton (NC) to take part in one of the State’s most critical projects, the Buxton Beach Nourishment scheme. Last week, Weeks’ President Richard S. Weeks announced that the single largest investment in the company’s 99-year history, the Magdalen will start her first project in North Carolina. “We […]

  • Scituate Dredging VIDEO Update

    6 August 2019
    Business & Finance

     Tonry Insurance Group has just released this very interesting video about the dredging operations in the South River entrance channel area in Scituate, Massachusetts. This project, undertaken by Burnham Associates, started in July and will run until Labor day (September 2, 2019), the Town of Marshfield Police Department said in its release. The dredging […]

  • PGS in Campos Basin 3D Shoot

    4 March 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Seismic contractor Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has recently kicked off the first GeoStreamer X MultiClient 3D seismic survey offshore Brazil. The Campos Deepwater GeoStreamer X project will deliver seismic data over the deepwater portion of northern Campos Basin. Ramform Titan arrived in Brazil on schedule and started operations on 25 February, just north of the Tropic […]

  • Nexen Submits Ettrick and Blackbird Decom Plan

    6 January 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Oil company Nexen, a subsidiary of CNOOC, has submitted a plan for decommissioning of the Ettrick and Blackbird fields, located in the UK North Sea. Ettrick field, operated by Nexen, has been producing oil and gas through subsea wells tied back to the FPSO Aoka Mizu. Blackbird field was also tied back to the Aoka […]

  • Aquatic Supports Bibby Offshore in ETAP Project for BP

    26 May 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Aquatic Engineering & Construction, an Acteon company, will support Bibby Offshore in replacing subsea infrastructure in the North Sea as part of BP’s $1 billion Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) life extension project.  Aquatic will deploy its carousel system to install 35 kilometers of umbilical ensuring electrical control capability between ETAP’s central processing facility and the Machar […]

  • Benthic to Undertake Browse Field Seabed Geotechnical Investigation

    2 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by Woodside Energy Ltd to undertake an offshore geotechnical site investigation for the proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Development off the North West coast of Western Australia. The survey will assist with further understanding details of the seabed features of the Browse gas fields. […]

  • Hejre Jacket Ready for Sail Away at Heerema’s Vlissingen Yard

    23 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Heerema Fabrication Group loaded the 8,500 tons Hejre jacket onto a Heerema barge at Vlissingen. The jacket will be part of DONG Energy’s Hejre development, the largest oil and gas project in the Danish sector of the North Sea. Heerema secured the contract for the construction of Hejre jacket from Technip, which will, in cooperation […]

  • CNOOC Starts Production at Yacheng 13-4 Gas Field (China)

    3 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      CNOOC Limited announced today that Yacheng 13-4 gas field has recently commenced production successfully.  Yacheng 13-4 is located about 72 kilometers southwest of Sanya, Hainan Province, in the north part of the South China Sea with an average water depth of about 85 meters. This project was designed to share the existing facilities of […]

  • Reach Subsea lands five-year deal with Statoil

    11 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Reach Subsea has been awarded a frame agreement for the provision of inspection, maintenance and repair services to Statoil.

  • Aker BP gains nod for North Sea appraisal well

    18 October 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP, a new oil exploration and production company formed by BP Norge and Det norske merger, a drilling permit for well 25/2-18 B, offshore Norway.  According to the agency, the well 25/2-18 B will be drilled from the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig, in production license […]

  • VIDEO: Kvaerner welcomes Johan Sverdrup jacket components

    6 October 2016
    Equipment

    The first of two shipments of pile clusters and flotation tanks for the Johan Sverdrup field jackets have reached Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal October 4, 2016. The structures will be installed on the first and largest steel jacket for the Johan Sverdrup project, currently under construction at Verdal, Kvaerner, a Norway-based engineering and construction firm […]

  • Safety probe finds improvement points on Heimdal

    22 July 2016

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has identified several improvement points during an audit of Statoil and Gassco. No non-conformities were found. PSA said on Thursday that the audit was conducted on June 9 and 10 and that the revealed improvement points were related to the condition of the main support structures […]

  • Awilco’s semi-sub resumes North Sea ops for Apache

    27 June 2016
    Exploration & Production

    UK-based offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling has confirmed that the semi-sub WilPhoenix has moored at Apache’s drilling location in the UK North Sea.  The drilling contractor reported on Monday that its 1982-built drilling rig WilPhoenix resumed operations at Apache’s drilling location on the Storr field on Sunday, June 26. To remind, the rig completed the yard stay in Hartlepool in […]

  • BP gets go-ahead to remove top deck from Ekofisk 2/4-G platform

    2 June 2016
    Project & Tenders

    BP’s Norwegian subsidiary, BP Norge, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to remove the top deck of the Ekofisk 2/4-G platform, offshore Norway. PSA stated on Thursday that it gave BP consent to remove the platform with activities scheduled to start in June 2016. ConocoPhillips-operated Ekofisk is an oil field lying in […]

  • Wintershall gets nod for Orion drilling

    11 May 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Wintershall its approval to drill an exploratory well with the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig offshore Florø, Norway. Wintershall is the operator for production licence 248 in the North Sea where the well will be drilled. The exploration prospect is named Orion and bears the designation 35/11-19S. It is located around […]

  • ConocoPhillips gains nod for jack-up Maersk Gallant use

    16 June 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has granted ConocoPhillips consent to use the Maersk Gallant drilling rig for plugging and abandoning a production well at Eldfisk 2/7 A in southern North Sea. Mærsk Gallant is a jack-up drilling rig, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The rig is operated by Maersk […]

  • Zamakona Yards: FSV Hull Launched

    3 February 2014

    The Zamakona Yards on Friday launched the “Ocean Marilin” vessel hull in its yard in Pasajes in Northern Spain. The vessel is the second which Zamakona Yards has launched of the three vessels contracted with the Norwegian shipping company, Atlantic Offshore A.S. The principal mission of the vessel will be to provide immediate attention in […]

  • Dana Starts Drilling Ops on Western Isles Ahead of Schedule (UK)

    3 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Dana Petroleum has started drilling operations on its Western Isles Development Project two months ahead of schedule. The work is being undertaken by the drilling rig Ocean Nomad, leased from Diamond Offshore, in the Northern North Sea. Western Isles is a $1.6 billion development project which is exploiting two discovered oil fields, called Harris and Barra, […]

  • Statoil Gets Nod to Use Scarabeo 5 at Visund Sør

    2 May 2013

    Statoil has received consent to use the Scarabeo 5 mobile drilling facility for drilling and completion in connection with production drilling on Visund Sør field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The consent relates to drilling and completion of wells 34/8-V-1 H and 34/8-V-2 which are part of production licence 120. The drilling is scheduled […]

  • Lundin Norway to Drill in PL 359 with Bredford Dolphin (Norway)

    22 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Norway AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling with the Bredford Dolphin mobile drilling facility in block 16/4. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted Lundin Norway AS consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 16/4-6S. The drilling activity is scheduled to start in February 2013, with a duration of […]

  • Statoil Gets Approval to Use West Elara at Valemon (Norway)

    18 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has received consent to use the West Elara mobile drilling facility for drilling and well operations on the Valemon field. The consent covers drilling and completion of 11 production wells and two injection wells on the Valemon field. The drilling activity is scheduled to last through 2017. Valemon is located in […]

  • Garantiana Drilling Begins Offshore Norway

    8 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Bridge Energy ASA has announced that drilling of exploration well 34/6-2S has started. The well will target the Garantiana prospect which is located 30 km northeast of Visund A platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The well is being drilled by using the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig. The well targets are stacked Jurassic/Triassic reservoirs. […]

  • Norway: Premier Oil Gets Green Light for Exploration Drilling in North Sea

    12 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      Premier Oil Norge AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 9/1-1S in the North Sea with the Bredford Dolphin mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 406, with Premier Norge AS as the operator (40%). The other licensees are Skeie Energy AS (40%) and Spring Energy AS […]