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  • Room for improvement found in MOL’s first drilling operation in Norway

    3 September 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety body has found improvement points during an audit of MOL Norge’s first drilling operation on the NCS.

  • Irregularities spotted during well plugging audit at Ekofisk

    2 November 2017

    Non-conformities have been found during an audit of ConocoPhillips’ permanent plugging and abandonment of wells at Ekofisk 2/4 A platform off Norway. 

  • Green light for OMV to use ‘Island Innovator’ for Wisting well

    6 July 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Austrian oil company OMV has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with the Island Innovator rig.  OMV (Norge) AS, OMV’s Norwegian subsidiary, has now been given the consent to drill the wildcat well 7324/8-3 in block 7324/8, in a prospect named […]

  • Quadrant takes two CHC helicopters for Australian ops

    23 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Helicopter services provider CHC Group has been awarded a two-year contract to support Australia’s oil and gas company, Quadrant Energy, starting July 1, 2017. In its statement on Thursday, CHC said it will provide passenger transfer services to Quadrant’s oil and gas installations on the North West Shelf using two AW139s flying out of CHC’s […]

  • Icon wins work on EnQuest’s Malaysian assets

    26 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    Malaysian offshore support vessel provider Icon Offshore has been awarded a contract to provide a vessel to EQ Petroleum Production Malaysia, a subsidiary of the UK-based oil and gas company EnQuest.  The Malaysian company will provide one straight supply vessel (SSV) to EnQuest on Seligi oil field and PM 8, which covers a group of oil fields. The Seligi […]

  • Report: OMV’s Wisting discovery might hold more than 1B barrels of oil

    17 November 2016

    Austrian OMV has reportedly upped initial size estimates of its Wisting discovery, sitting in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. According to Reuters, OMV’s Norway boss David Latin said at an energy conference on Thursday that the Wisting project might contain more than one billion barrels of oil. To remind, according to data from September, the […]

  • Aker BP hires IKM for Alvheim work

    10 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Aker BP has awarded a frame agreement to IKM Cleandrill, a specialist mud recovery subsidiary of the IKM Group, for the provision of a mud recovery services during drilling on the Alvheim development in the North Sea. IKM said that the deal is a three-year frame agreement for riserless closed loop mud recovery services. The initial […]

  • UK: Ithaca’s Stella field start-up expected in November

    6 October 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Ithaca Energy’s Stella field in the UK North Sea is still expected to start production in November 2016. Providing an operational update Ithaca on Thursday said that the hook-up and commissioning operations of the production facility FPF-1 were progressing to plan. To remind, the FPF-1 set sail from a yard in Poland in August, and […]

  • PHOTO: Jack-up Maersk Highlander ‘almost ready’ for Culzean field

    8 August 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Maersk Drilling’s newbuild jack-up drilling rig, the Maersk Highlander, has reached Scotland and it is ‘almost ready’ to start working for Maersk Oil on the Culzean field, in the UK North Sea.  Maersk Drilling informed on Friday, August 5, 2016, through its social media channels that the rig arrived to Scotland, following a journey from Singapore […]

  • Expro wraps up P&A for Apache in Gulf of Mexico

    3 May 2016
    Equipment

    UK oilfield services company Expro has completed a plug and abandonment (P&A) project in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) for Apache. The company said the Apache work comprised the pre-abandonment and plugging of wells in the ultra deepwater Atwater Valley and Mississippi Canyon areas. Starting in March 2016, Expro said it used its well intervention […]

  • Norway’s Eidesvik scores PSV hat trick

    11 December 2015

    Eidesvik Offshore, a Norwegian supplier of offshore vessels, has secured contracts for three of its platform suppliers, bringing some positive news from the sector plagued with lay-ups this year. The company has informed that the platform supply vessels Viking Lady and Viking Athene have been awarded a contract with Total E & P Norge AS […]

  • Seafox secures work on Dong Energy’s Hejre field in Denmark

    17 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Seafox Contractors B.V. has announced a contract win with DONG Energy E&P in a string of recent contracts awards for O&G and Renewable Energy clients.

  • Niko’s Drilling Program in Indonesia Kicks Off

    3 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Niko Resources Ltd. has announced start of its exploration drilling program in Indonesia and participation in the company’s twenty-first block in the country. Niko will partner with Zaratex N.V. in the 5908km2 Lhokseumawe PSC in western Indonesia. The block is located directly adjacent to the giant Arun field (>3.1BBOE) and associated LNG plant. A 3865km2 […]

  • Eni Announces Gas Production Restart Offshore Libya

    3 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Eni announces that Mellitah Oil & Gas, the Joint Venture operating company (NOC 50%, Eni 50%) in Libya, has restarted today gas production from the offshore platform of Sabratha. Production will start at 4-5 Million cubic metres per day and will gradually increase to reach 11-13 Mcmd during the month of November, during which time […]

  • Norway: Fire at Huldra Platform Extinguished, Statoil Says

    13 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    At 14.30 today a fire was reported in an air compressor compartment on the Huldra platform in the North Sea, which is situated west of Mongstad. The fire was extinguished at 14.50., Statil announced on its website. None of the 19 persons on board the platform were injured in the incident. Huldra has been developed […]

  • Gazprom Neft, Sovcomflot to Cooperate on LNG Bunkering

    10 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Sovcomflot reached an LNG bunkering cooperation deal with Gazpromneft Marine Bunker.

  • Containerships’ Unit Conducts Its 1st LNG Bunkering in Rotterdam

    28 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Containerships’ first LNG-fueled boxship undertook its initial LNG bunkering in Rotterdam.

  • Japan: Silent Naming and Delivering Ceremony of Second Ecoship

    11 April 2011

      On March 29, 2011, 2,000 unit type pure car carrier S495 was named and delivered. She is the second and the last of 2-ship series of Kyokuyo’s self-developed eco-friendly ship with a semi-spherically shaped bow that reduces the wind resistance. Featured in TV and newspapers, the sisters are perhaps the most famous of the […]

  • Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean Adds New RoRo Ship

    8 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean added the Neo-Panamax vessel MV Titus, capable of carrying 8,000 cars, to its fleet.

  • Iran Launches New Direct Shipping Line to Oman

    8 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Iran has launched yet another shipping line, this time with its neighboring Oman. The country has been very busy with renewing transportation links following the lifting of economic sanctions earlier this year with countries now standing in line to renew economic and energy ties with Tehran. According to Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPO), the direct […]

  • Gardline Chairman Appointed as Co-Chair of Marine Industry Leadership Council

    14 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Gregory Darling, group chairman of Gardline has been appointed Industry Co-chair of the Marine Industries Leadership Council. Sharing this role with him is Rt Hon. Michael Fallon MP Minister of State for Business. The appointment is for two years and Gregory is replacing the outgoing Richard Sadler, CEO of Lloyds Register. Upon his appointment, Gregory […]

  • USA: KBR to Perform Engineering Design Support for BP Quad 204 FPSO Project

    26 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      KBR today announced that it has received a letter of award from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Limited to perform engineering design and procurement support services for the BP Quad 204 Floating Production Storage and Offload (FPSO) Project to be located west of Shetland Isles in UK waters. The Quad 204 FPSO will be designed […]

  • Bayerngas UK to Buy Stake in Babbage Field

    9 September 2013

    Bayerngas UK announced it has agreed to purchase from Centrica Resources Ltd their 13% interest in UKCS License P456 containing the Babbage Gas Field. The Field is located in UKCS Block 42/2a in the Southern North Sea and came on-stream in 2010. Current production is from three wells. A second phase of drilling is nearing […]

  • ITOCHU to Participate in LPG Export Project in USA

    6 March 2013

    ITOCHU Corporation said that it has entered into Joint Development Agreement with Coastal Caverns, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vitol Inc., the North American subsidiary of the Vitol Group, for the joint development of LPG Export Project in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. This project will include storage capacity for Propane and Butane […]

  • Shell Awards EFA to Wood Group Kenny (UK)

    15 March 2012

    Wood Group Kenny has been awarded an Enterprise Frame Agreement (EFA) by Shell Global Solutions International BV to provide subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) engineering and construction management services to Shell worldwide, with primary focus on the Asia Pacific region, along with other project-specific awards in Europe. The EFA was awarded for a term […]