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  • Gallery: ‘Flying colors’ for world’s largest crane vessel’s maiden test

    28 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    World’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel, delivered recently to Heerema Marine Contractors, has completed its sea trials, and with “flying colors” at that according to the Dutch owner.

  • Wintershall submits $1.2B Nova field development plan

    16 May 2018

    Wintershall has filed a plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea. The development is expected to cost around NOK 9.9 billion ($1.2 billion).

  • Archer to let go 1.000 workers

    23 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Archer Limited, a supplier of drilling and well services, will lay off around 1.000 workers, pressured by the drop in activity and the demand for its services, due the sharp decline in the oil price. Seeing the oil price go down, many of Archer’s customers have decided to significantly reduce their investments and expenditures. The company has said that the reduction […]

  • 10th German Wind Energy Conference DEWEK 2010

    9 November 2010

    More and more multi‐national companies have discovered wind energy as a growth market and are getting involved in the production of wind turbines as well as the development and operation of onand offshore wind farms. By the end of 2010, wind farms all over the world with a total installed power of 200,000 MW will […]

  • Oil and gas operators brace for impact as storm Zeta gains strength in Gulf of Mexico

    27 October 2020
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Oil and gas operators are evacuating their offshore personnel from facilities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as Zeta nears hurricane strength.

  • Statoil: Stjerne Comes on Stream (Norway)

    25 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil and its partners have started up production on the Stjerne field, 13 kilometres southwest of the Oseberg South platform in the North Sea. Stjerne is the fifth of Statoil’s fast-track projects in production. “This is a good example of how to make smaller discoveries profitable. The project has run according to plan, despite the […]

  • World’s biggest jack-up nearing Norway (Gallery)

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    XLE 2, one of the world’s largest jack-up drilling rigs, is only a couple of days away from its final destination, Norway. Maersk Drilling, Danish offshore drilling contractor, has shared an image of the rig fixed on board the ‘Hawk’ heavy lift and transportation vessel. The XLE 2 jack-up rig was recently delivered by Singapore’s Keppel […]

  • DEME Begins Work on Tuas Terminal

    23 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Maritime and Port Authority Singapore (MPA) and the Joint Venture comprising of Dredging International Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. – Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. today officially signed a $1.8 billion worth Tuas Terminal Phase 1 contract.  The Joint Venture will be responsible for the construction of 8.6 kilometers of quay wall, the reclamation of about 300 hectares […]

  • ROVQUIP Expands Rental Fleet Portfolio

    12 March 2020
    Equipment

    ROV tooling manufacturer ROVQUIP has recently made a significant investment in its ROV tooling and manipulator rental fleet. The investment is part of the Aleron group’s company ongoing commitment to expanding its rental division and supporting its global customers. New equipment in the rental pool includes: • Webtool 38 and 75mm Cutters; • Tritech SuperZip, […]

  • Samsung C&T to build Vietnam’s first LNG terminal

    25 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    The consortium led by the South Korean Samsung C&T, a Samsung Group company, has won a deal to build Vietnam’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

  • Borr Drilling adds $35 million to backlog with potential for even more work

    11 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has added about $35 million to its backlog following new contract awards for its jack-up rig fleet.

  • Barrier deficiencies force Equinor to drill fresh Martin Linge wells

    8 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has decided to drill new wells on its operated Martin Linge field, located offshore Norway, due to barrier deficiencies discovered in previous wells.

  • World’s Largest Pipelay Vessel Starts Laying Pipe for Nord Stream in the Gulf of Finland

    4 September 2010
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Allseas’ Solitaire, the world’s largest pipelay vessel, has started to lay the Gulf of Finland section of the 1,224 kilometre Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream’s Deputy Director Construction Ruurd Hoekstra and Leo D. Varkevisser, Allseas’ Vice President Projects and Operations, arrived on board the Solitaire to confirm that everything […]

  • Kongsberg DP Systems on Pioneering Spirit

    23 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Following its inauguration ceremony in Rotterdam on February 27 2015, Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit will start its first job offshore Norway this summer with an integrated Dynamic Positioning (DP) and manoeuvring system based on Kongsberg Maritime technology. The Kongsberg Maritime delivery includes forward and aft bridge systems in addition to an extensive automation network and the […]

  • OIS Launches Wellintel Service for Well Decommissioning Program

    30 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Offshore Installation Services Ltd (OIS), an Acteon company, has launched a new service designed to help operators fulfill their suspended well decommissioning plans. Wellintel is a well data collection and review service that gathers and prepares the information operators require before they start a decommissioning program. OIS engineers with extensive well abandonment knowledge and detailed […]

  • Seadrill taps Semco Maritime to prepare rig for Lundin gig

    24 January 2020
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Semco Maritime has been awarded a contract by Seadrill for preparation and modification of the West Bollsta prior to starting its ten-well contract with Lundin on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in 2Q 2020.

  • Kongsberg DP technology onboard ‘Pioneering Spirit’

    23 March 2015
    Equipment

    Following its inauguration ceremony in Rotterdam on 27th February 2015, Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit will start its first job offshore Norway this summer with an integrated Dynamic Positioning (DP) and manoeuvring system based on state-of-the art Kongsberg Maritime technology. The Kongsberg Maritime delivery includes forward and aft bridge systems in addition to an extensive automation network […]

  • Cavotec, COSCO sign maintenance deal for more than 60 vessels

    26 October 2023
    Equipment

    Swiss company Cavotec has signed a service partner agreement with COSCO Group to provide preventive maintenance for more than 60 ocean-going vessels equipped with Cavotec shore power systems.

  • Fresh gas discovery in Norwegian Sea puts tie-back potential on the table

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

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has made a new commercial gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea using an Odfjell Drilling-owned rig.

  • USA: Schlumberger Posts 1Q 2011 Revenue of USD 8.72 Billion

    21 April 2011
    Business & Finance

      Schlumberger Limited today reported first-quarter 2011 revenue of $8.72 billion versus $9.07 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010 and $5.60 billion in the first quarter of 2010. Net income attributable to Schlumberger, excluding charges, was $972 million—a decrease of 16% sequentially but an increase of 30% year-on-year. Diluted earnings-per-share, excluding charges, was $0.71 […]

  • Eni strikes oil offshore Angola. Eyeing fast-track development

    26 June 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Italian oil major Eni has made an oil discovery in Angola’s offshore block 15/06, in the Kalimba exploration prospect. Eni on Monday said the new oil find contained between 230 and 300 million barrels of light oil in place.

  • Petrobras Begins Production in Baúna Field Off Brazil

    20 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    On Saturday, February 16, Petrobras started up oil production on the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí in the Baúna field (block BMS-40), in the Southern Santos Basin post-salt cluster. The FPSO is connected to well 9-SPS-88, with production capacity of up to 12,000 barrels per day. Another ten wells (5 production, 4 water injection, and 1 […]

  • Offshore Wind of Change for China

    30 December 2011

    The two figures of “100 million” and “10 million” are extremely meaningful to each Chinese people. By the end of October, the total installed capacity of China Guodian Corporation surpassed 100 million kilowatts, among which wind power 10 million kilowatts, the symbolic WTG is located at Jiangsu Rudong Offshore (Intertidal) 150,000 kilowatts Large-Scale Demonstration Wind […]

  • Norwegian oil firm to invest over $15 billion in development projects

    29 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP will invest NOK 150 billion or over $15 billion in development projects on the Norwegian continental shelf over the next five to six years.

  • Statoil Falls Short at Korpfjell

    29 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil and partners have proven a small, non-commercial gas volume in the Korpfjell well in the Barents Sea southeast. Korpfjell is the first exploration well drilled in the Norwegian section of a formerly disputed area between Norway and Russia. “Korpfjell is a structure of a size seldom seen on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and has […]