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  • Norway green-lights Sigyn lifetime extension

    23 March 2017

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), a government agency that manages oil and gas resources, has granted consent for continued use of the subsea facilities on the Sigyn field in the North Sea from the end of 2017 until the end of 2022. The licensees in Sigyn are ExxonMobil, the operator, with 40 percent and Statoil […]

  • Polarcus in two seismic projects off South America

    8 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    Marine seismic company Polarcus has received two letters of intent from undisclosed clients for two additional marine seismic projects offshore South America. Polarcus said the projects, one 3D using Polarcus’ RightBand technique for broadband data acquisition and one 4D monitoring survey, will start in 1Q and 2Q 2017, respectively. The projects are expected to have […]

  • Offshore safety watchdog finds room for improvement on Johan Sverdrup

    5 August 2016

    Norwegian safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found improvement points during an audit of Statoil’s design engineering of the Johan Sverdrup riser platform. PSA said on Friday that the audit was conducted during meetings with Statoil and Kværner in Oslo on May 2 and 3, 2016. The purpose of the audit was to […]

  • Lundin enters farm out deals in Malaysia

    1 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum has signed farm-out agreements (FOA) with DYAS for part of its working interests across three Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in Malaysia. Ahead of the recently started exploration campaign in the Sabah region, offshore East Malaysia, Lundin Malaysia has entered into farm-out agreements with DYAS covering Blocks PM328, SB307/308 and gas holding areas in […]

  • PHOTO: Steel cutting for Johan Sverdrup jacket

    30 June 2015
    Equipment

    The image, shared by Kvaerner, shows steel cutting ceremony for Johan Sverdrup riser platform (RP) jacket that occurred yesterday, June 29, 2015, in Norway.  Kvaerner signed the contract for delivery of steel jacket substructure for the riser platform at the Johan Sverdrup field located in the North Sea, offshore Norway, in January 2015. As reported yesterday, […]

  • Rowan bags new jack-up deals at lower rates

    20 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Rowan Companies, a Houston-based provider of drilling services, has been awarded several contract extensions with lower day rates, and a new one-well contract. According to its latest fleet status report, Rowan’s jack-up drilling rig Rowan Gorilla V was awarded a two-well extension estimated for an additional year with Total in the UK sector of the North Sea. […]

  • Polarcus amid Capreolus shoot

    13 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Polarcus has reached the 50% completion milestone in the acquisition of the Capreolus 3D multi-client project, the “largest single 3D survey ever acquired” offshore Australia. Polarcus will acquire a minimum area of 22,130 sq. km of high resolution broadband 3D seismic data including coverage over the Phoenix South-1 oil discovery and surrounding blocks in an […]

  • McDermott wins subsea installation gig for Jack and St. Malo fields

    31 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a contract to transport and install subsea umbilicals, manifolds, jumpers and flying leads for Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to support the brownfield expansion of the Jack and St. Malo fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The value of the award is included in McDermott’s first quarter 2015 backlog. “This […]

  • Sen. Mikulski against offshore drilling, and ‘always will be’

    30 January 2015

    Senator Barbara A. Mikulski the senior United States Senator from Maryland is against offshore oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. The Department of Interior earlier this week released a draft proposal for offshore leasing program for 2017-2022, which would open the Atlantic coast to offshore drilling. The draft proposes areas offshore Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. […]

  • Sonde expects to drill Fisal-1 well in Q4

    23 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Sonde Resources has provided an update regarding the company’s operations in the Joint Oil Block. The Joint Oil Block is a 768,000 acre license, equally contributed by Tunisia and Libya, straddling the maritime boundary in the central Gulf of Gabes, about 100 km (62 mi) offshore in water depths averaging 95 m (312 ft). “The […]

  • Kashagan production restart depends on pipelines investigation results

    7 April 2014

    Production from the huge Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea, offshore Kazakhstan may not resume this year. Following the start of production from the Kashagan field on 11 September 2013, the operations had to be stopped on 24 September, due to a gas leak in the onshore section of the gas pipeline running from D […]

  • Island Innovator Tilts in Hanøytangen. Workers Evacuated

    31 May 2013

    Island Innovator semi-submersible rig, on a yard-stay in Hanøytangen, Norway, has been evacuated after it tilted 4 degrees, a local news site has reported. According to Bergens Tidende news portal, 63 people have been taken off the facility in a peaceful manner. Around 4 o’clock this morning, the rig , docked at Hanøytangen yard, took […]

  • Statoil Hires Teekay’s FSO for Gina Krog Field

    22 May 2013
    Business & Finance

      Teekay Offshore Partners L.P.  today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil), on behalf of the field license partners, to provide a floating storage and offtake (FSO) unit for the Gina Krog oil and gas field located in North Sea. The contract will be serviced by a new […]

  • Lundin Petroleum Starts Jorvik Drilling (Norway)

    11 February 2013

    Lundin Petroleum AB has started drilling of exploration well 16/1-17 in PL338. The well will target the Jorvik prospect, which is located east of the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 16/1-17 is to prove the presence of oil-bearing sandstones and conglomerates in a separate basin directly […]

  • Australia: ConocoPhillips’ Browse Basin Drilling Scheduled for February 2012

    23 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    The “Transocean Legend” drilling rig is nearing completion of maintenance prior to the commencement of a firm drilling programme comprising five wells with an option for three additional wells in Karoon/ConocoPhillips Browse Basin permits, Karoon Gas Australia said in its Global Drilling Update. The drilling campaign is now expected to stard in early-February 2012 when […]

  • Samsung Heavy Launches First of Four Teekay E-Shuttle Tankers

    26 March 2019

    Aurora Spirit is the first of four shuttle tankers to be built in South Korea.

  • Gallery: Freighter Burning off Germany, Authorities Say Might Explode

    27 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    A general cargo ship Purple Beach has been burning in the North Sea off Germany’s coast since Monday, and it is feared that the fire that started in one of its cargo holds might lead to an explosion, the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) reports. CCME Cuxhaven established a 5-mile security zone around the vessel […]

  • Cargo Handling Ops at NWSA Terminals Affected by Hanjin’s Move

    12 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The decision of the South Korean shipping company, Hanjin Shipping, to file for receivership has impacted cargo handling operations at three Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) terminals. NWSA Olympic Container Terminal (OCT) in Tacoma said it is not accepting or dispatching any empty Hanjin containers until further notice. Additionally, Husky Terminal in Tacoma is neither receiving […]

  • Gallery: Saloos Wreck Removed from Angolan Waters

    19 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    The wreck of a RORO cargo vessel Saloos, which sank at Cabinda anchorage in Angola in May 2014, has been removed from the area by Koole Mammoet Salvage, a wreck removal and salvage company. As the Panama-flagged vessel grounded, its cargo of 155 containers was scattered in an area of 60 km² while several containers were stranded on […]

  • Update 3: Oil Being Removed from Sunken Flinterstar

    12 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Dutch salvage and towage companies Multraship and Smit Salvage on Sunday started removing heavy fuel oil and diesel oil from the general cargo ship Flinterstar which sank after colliding with the LNG tanker Al-Oraiq off Belgium’s Zeebruggee on October 6. The 2002-built Flinterstar had around 427 tons of heavy fuel oil and 125 tons of […]

  • LNG Tanker Coral Energy Named in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    10 December 2012

    Princess Maxima of the Netherlands played, on Dec. 7th, the part of godmother at the naming ceremony for the LNG tanker “Coral Energy” in Rotterdam.  The Coral Energy, built at the Neptun Werft in Rostock, Germany, is the world’s first direct driven dual-fuel ice class 1A LNG carrier. The development of the Coral Energy started […]

  • New Zealand: RCCNZ Continues to Monitor Fishing Boat that Caught Fire

    13 September 2012

      All 43 crew of the 64m New Zealand fishing boat Amaltal Columbia, owned by Talley’s, have abandoned ship and been transferred to two other fishing vessels following a fire on board, approximately 70km north-east of Lyttelton Heads. A total of 39 members of the crew are now safely on board the Russian fishing vessel, […]

  • Iran: USD 30 Billion to Be Invested in South Pars, Says Official

    13 May 2013

    During the current Iranian calendar year, which started on March 21, 2013, an investment of about $30 billion is planned for Iran’s South Pars gas field, the National Iranian Oil Company managing director (NIOC) stated. “The daily gas production capacity will increase by 100 million cubic meters (mcm) by the end of the year“, SHANA […]

  • FERC rejects calls for Texas, Annova LNG orders rehearing

    24 February 2020

    The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected calls for rehearing of its Texas LNG and Annova LNG authorizations requested by Sierra Club. 

  • Top news of the week July 1-6

    7 July 2019

    First Prelude FLNG cargo lands in South Korea The first liquefied natural gas cargo shipped from Shell’s Prelude FLNG unit located 475 km North East of Broome in Western Australia has landed in South Korea. McDermott-Chiyoda ink Cameron LNG incentives deal McDermott International and its joint venture member Chiyoda have reached an agreement with Cameron […]