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  • 25 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Wind-driven expansion of marsh ponds on the Mississippi River Delta is a significant factor in the loss of crucial land in the Delta region, according to research published by scientists at Indiana University and North Carolina State University. The study found that 17 percent of land loss in the area resulted from pond expansion, much […]

  • 3 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    Norway’s Ocean Installer has established a new business segment for the offshore wind sector. The Stavanger-based company has appointed Even Larsen as the Director of Offshore Wind, starting from 1 August. “I am very excited about this new chapter for our company, which makes Ocean Installer relevant in the ongoing global transition from oil and gas […]

  • 28 May 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    The first of 77 MHI Vestas 9.5 MW wind turbines is now standing tall at its designated location at the Borssele III & IV offshore wind site in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The load-out of the first batch of wind turbine components onto Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus started on 24 May. The […]

  • 9 April 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Aberdeen-based Well-Safe Solutions has agreed to acquire the Ocean Guardian semi-submersible drilling unit, sparking another jobs boost for the company. The asset, currently owned by Diamond Offshore, has drilled hundreds of wells since entering service in 1985. Upon delivery, Well-Safe will start work immediately on an upgrade of the semi-sub, which will be renamed the […]

  • 22 February 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Norwest Energy has received the State Government regulatory approvals to proceed with its planned Xanadu 3D seismic survey, offshore Western Australia. Now that the approvals have been granted it is anticipated that mobilization to site will begin in mid-April, with the survey acquisition starting in the first week of May. The results of the processing and interpretation of the data […]

  • 3 July 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has started production on the Gina Krog oil and gas field in the North Sea on Friday. Statoil and the partners invest a total of around NOK 31 billion in the development of the Gina Krog field. “We are proud to have delivered Gina Krog with a good HSE record and in line with […]

  • 22 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Next Geosolutions has been awarded two survey contracts for the North Sea Link (NSL) project, the first electricity link between UK and Norway. The first contract, due to start in April, will see Next Geosolutions provide cable protection survey work for Statnett, the Norwegian transmission system operator. The two week work scope will involve cable […]

  • 6 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    PT.OSI (Offshore Services Indonesia) has started phase 1 of the 3-year technical services contract, awarded by oil & gas company Pertamina ONWJ, for the provision of DP II saturation diving DSV and all associated services. The diving support vessel (DSV) Crest Odyssey 1 has departed Jakarta after completion of mobilization and has proceeded to ONWJ (Offshore […]

  • 15 December 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    CAMAC Energy Inc. awarded a contract for the acquisition of a 3D seismic survey to Polarcus Limited. The survey will cover approximately 1,504 km2 in the Company’s A2 and A5 blocks offshore Gambia. The objectives of the seismic survey are to enhance the definition and maturation of potential prospects in the blocks and provide high-quality sub-surface images […]

  • 24 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norway’s DOF Subsea has won contracts for two of its offshore vessels, the Skandi Seven and the Skandi Skansen.

  • 9 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a seismic acquisition and depth processing contract by Turkish national oil and gas company TPAO.

  • 4 March 2019

    BW Offshore is contemplating to enter into agreements to acquire 100% of the Maromba field offshore Brazil from the present owners Petrobras and Chevron.

  • 21 January 2019

    UAE-based offshore vessel provider Topaz Energy and Marine has taken delivery of the Topaz Tiamat newbuild subsea vessel.

  • 20 December 2018
    Exploration & Production

    BigLift Shipping, a heavy lift shipping company, has recently transported a jack-up drilling rig from the Netherlands to West Africa.

  • 5 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Solstad Offshore has scheduled a bondholders’ meeting to ask their consent for temporary suspension and deferral of interest and amortizations on financial debt. 

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]