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  • Norway: Statoil Makes Oil Discovery at Krafla Prospect

    10 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Oil has been proven by Statoil and its partners Det norske oljeselskap ASA and Svenska Petroleum Exploration AS on the North Sea Krafla prospect. The well is located in block 30/11 around 26 kilometres south of the Oseberg South field. Based on preliminary calculations the size of the discovery is between 12.5 and 56.5 […]

  • Europe’s Largest Oil Producer Backs Sanctions against Russia

    12 August 2014

    The Norwegian Government has decided to back the restrictive measures against Russia, according to the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry. “Norway has since the start of the crisis in Ukraine stood together with the EU and neighboring countries in our reactions to Russia’s violation of the international law. We will do the same this time,” says […]

  • ‘Skandi Santos’ gets $387M contract extension with Petrobras

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    AKOFS Offshore, a part of Akastor ASA, has secured a five-year contract extension from Petrobras to use the Skandi Santos, a Subsea Equipment Support Vessel in Brazil. The extension, worth about NOK 2.5 billion ($386.7 million), will start March 1, 2015 in direct continuation of the current contract. The vessel is currently operating under a five-year […]

  • ICBC Reveals Builders of Its Valemax Series

    12 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    ICBC Financial Leasing Co has disclosed the names of builders of its ten 400,000 dwt VLOCs intended to transport iron ore from Brazil to China under a recently sealed deal with Brazilian mining conglomerate Vale. Six Valemaxes are to be built by China’s privately-owned Yangzijiang Shipbuilding whereas the remaining four VLOCs are to be constructed by China Shipbuilding Industry […]

  • Petrobras Contracts Aker Wayfarer

    15 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services (AKOFS) has won a contract worth USD 465 million over five years from Petrobras to provide subsea intervention services offshore Brazil from the Aker Wayfarer vessel. The contract will start within the fourth quarter of 2016 and has a five-year option extension. AKOFS will at the end of September […]

  • Beach Energy still on track for first gas from one of its major growth projects

    31 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Beach Energy is one approval shy of completing all connection activities for four wells, which are part of the Otway Basin development off Australia.

  • Van Oord to Supply Foundations for Taiwanese Yunlin OWF

    30 May 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Van Oord has secured a 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind contract in Taiwan, worth approximately EUR 500 million. Van Oord is responsible for the design, manufacturing and installation of the eighty foundations for the Yunlin offshore wind project being developed by wpd. Preparations for the wind farm, which will be constructed eight kilometers off the coast […]

  • Petrobras to lease LNG operations in Bahia

    10 December 2019

    Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas company Petrobras has started a process to lease its Bahia regasification LNG terminal and its integrated pipeline in northeast Brazil.

  • Exmar completes commissioning of Tango FLNG

    10 June 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Belgium’s Exmar, the Nicolas Saverys-led shipowner, has completed the commissioning of the Tango FLNG.

  • Step forward for Swansea Bay tidal lagoon

    2 December 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    UK Government will start discussions with Tidal Lagoon Power in order to determine if the building of the tidal lagoon power plant in Swansea Bay is affordable. Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb today welcomed the progress towards the world’s first power generating tidal lagoon potentially being built in Wales. It follows the announcement in the National […]

  • STATS Expanding to Asia Pacific Region. Opens Singapore Office

    11 March 2011
    Business & Finance

      Pipeline engineering specialist, STATS Group, is expanding in to the Asia Pacific region with the appointment of Chris Lilley as business development manager in Singapore. The Aberdeen isolation and intervention technology company has recently secured a number of key contracts in Asia and believes clients in the region will account for around 30% of […]

  • Aker BP brings online North Sea project less than two years after first steel

    11 April 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian operator Aker BP and its partner Pandion Energy have started production from the Hod B in the southern North Sea offshore Norway.

  • Danish offshore wind project goes into overdrive

    2 October 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet is starting offshore surveys at the Hesselø wind project offshore Denmark. Fugro is deploying two vessels to carry out a geophysical survey of the 248-square-kilometre area located in Kattegatt, 20-30 kilometres north of Sjælland. The campaign is expected to be conducted over the next four to five months, Energinet said. […]

  • Borr Drilling gets early terminations but also new drilling contracts

    14 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Borr Drilling has received notices of early termination for several of its drilling rig contracts, but it has also been awarded new contracts for its rigs.

  • Oil Flows from Shell’s Gumusut-Kakap Project

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Shell has started oil production from the Gumusut-Kakap floating platform off the coast of Malaysia, the latest in a series of Shell deep-water projects. The Gumusut-Kakap field is located in waters up to 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) deep. The platform is expected to reach an annual peak oil production of around 135,000 barrels a day, […]

  • Aibel to build second phase of Johan Sverdrup onshore power plant

    28 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has awarded oil services company Aibel a contract to build the second phase of the onshore power plant for the Johan Sverdrup development.

  • Keppel, Seafox Eye Construction of First Jackup with P&A Features

    28 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has signed an engineering services agreement with Workfox B.V, a subsidiary of the Seafox Group (Seafox), to embark on an engineering study of a purpose-built accommodation jackup rig with well intervention and P&A features. The project, which is named […]

  • Grangemouth Workers to Strike against Pay and Roster Changes

    14 March 2016

    The workers at Grangemouth, one of Scotland’s largest ports, have decided to take industrial action over pay and roster changes proposed by port operator Forth Ports, according to GAC. The strike, scheduled to start on March 15, would halt all maritime activities within the port’s container terminal, initially for a period of up to two weeks. The changes to the rotas […]

  • Valaris drillship starts new chapter in Brazil

    25 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Valaris has revealed that one of its drillships has started working on its new assignment offshore Brazil with Petrobras.

  • UK firm collects $128 million in new deals with headcount increase on the horizon

    15 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    EnerMech has secured new contract awards worth over $126 million in Africa, Caspian and the Middle East, spurring further headcount increase.

  • RINA, 5M Renewables to develop floating green hydrogen production vessel

    7 March 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Italian classification society RINA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with marine systems provider 5M Renewables for the collaboration on the concept development for the floating green hydrogen production vessel.

  • U.S. House Passes Legislation to Help Carolina Beach Renourishment Project

    8 June 2012

      The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed legislation authored by Congressman McIntyre to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Corps from terminating the Carolina Beach renourishment project. The legislation was attached to the Corps budget bill and passed with unanimous support. Specifically, the language of the amendment would prohibit the use of […]

  • Information Session on Sea Level Rise Mapping Set for June (Australia)

    27 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Port Macquarie-Hastings Council will host a public information session early next month to present the results of a project to map sea level rise (SLR) across the local government area. The session will be held on June 10, between 5 pm and 7 pm in the function room at Council’s administration centre in Port Macquarie. […]

  • Scientists Study Oil Spill Effects on Deep Sea Ecosystems

    5 May 2016
    Research & Development

    Scientists from the University of Aberdeen are due to sail to the North Atlantic to test research equipment that will help improve the understanding of how deep ocean ecosystems function and respond to an oil spill. The multi-autoclave-coring and experimentation unit (MAC-EXP), which has been developed at the University’s Oceanlab facility and funded through a £500,000 […]

  • GDF SUEZ: Production Starts at Amstel Field

    10 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    GDF SUEZ announces that the Amstel field oil production has started from its newly installed Q13a-A production platform off the Dutch coast. After the acquisition of 50% into the Q13a offshore production licence in 2010, GDF SUEZ Dutch Exploration and Production affiliate – GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V., the first offshore gas producer in the […]