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  • BG Group Latest Campaign Raises Tanzania Resources

    10 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    BG Group announced an increase in total recoverable resources for the Mzia discovery and across Blocks 1, 3 and 4 offshore southern Tanzania, marking the conclusion of a successful drilling and testing campaign. The campaign confirmed Mzia as the second giant gas discovery, after Jodari, in BG Group’s acreage offshore Tanzania, with 4.7 trillion cubic […]

  • OIS Completes Rigless Suspended Well Abandonment Campaign in North Sea

    17 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has successfully completed its sixteenth rigless suspended well abandonment campaign involving multiple operators in the Southern North Sea. The multi-operator model for programmes of this kind can deliver significant customer benefits in terms of cost-effectiveness. A total of nine mudline wells in categories 1, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 […]

  • USA: NASA Announces Date and Crew of 15th Undersea Exploration Mission

    20 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

        An international crew of astronauts will venture into the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 17 to test innovative solutions to engineering challenges during a crewed mission to an asteroid. NASA astronaut and former International Space Station crew member Shannon Walker will lead the 15th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO), a13-day undersea […]

  • Shell to sell Egyptian onshore assets to focus on offshore

    21 October 2019

    Shell has revealed plans to market its current onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert to fully concentrate on growing its Egyptian offshore exploration and integrated gas business.

  • New CEO to take the helm at Magseis Fairfield

    13 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Magseis Fairfield has appointed Carel Hooijkaas as Chief Executive Officer effective October 1, 2019, succeeding Per Christian Grytnes who will retire from the company.

  • Noreco names new chief financial officer

    6 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO) of the company. 

  • Worldwide offshore rig count in March up by 69 units year-over-year

    5 April 2019
    Exploration & Production

    The worldwide offshore rig count for March 2019 decreased by two units sequentially but increased by 69 units year-over-year, according to Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE).

  • Rockhopper, Premier working on Sea Lion funding ahead of FID

    18 May 2018
    Project & Tenders

    London-listed Rockhopper Exploration has marked the year 2018 potentially transformational, as it works to secure funds and press ahead with the $1.5  billion Sea development in the Falkland Islands.

  • Repsol Sinopec picks Veolia for Buchan decom work

    2 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has awarded a contract for dismantling and recycling of the Buchan Alpha unit to Veolia to be carried out at its Dales Voe site in Lerwick, Shetland. After 36 years and almost 150mm barrels of oil, the Buchan Alpha facility in the UK North Sea ceased production, as planned, on May 12, […]

  • Report: BP removes two workers from North Sea platform after syringe found

    20 April 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Oil giant  BP has reportedly removed two workers from its ETAP project, in the UK sector of the North Sea, after finding a syringe on an accommodation rig.  According to Oil and Gas People, an oil industry’s job site, the incident happened on Prosafe’s 1982-built flotel Safe Caledonia that is under a contract with BP […]

  • Paragon Offshore stacks two more rigs

    11 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Paragon Offshore, a global provider of offshore drilling rigs, has stacked two jack-up drilling rigs and has been awarded several contract extensions with reduced dayrates. According to its latest fleet status report issued Tuesday, Paragon stacked the jack-up rig Paragon L1113 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The rig’s contract with Pemex, offshore Mexico, with a dayrate […]

  • BG Group Ups Tanzania Gas Reserves Estimates

    10 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    BG Group today announced an increase in total recoverable resources for the Mzia discovery and across Blocks 1, 3 and 4 offshore southern Tanzania, marking the conclusion of a successful drilling and testing campaign. The campaign confirmed Mzia as the second giant gas discovery, after Jodari, in BG Group’s acreage offshore Tanzania, with 4.7 trillion […]

  • UK: Ithaca Energy Reports Progress on BW Athena FPSO

    9 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Ithaca Energy Inc. announces progress on the BW Athena Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO conversion scope, which is the responsibility of BW Offshore, has proved to be more extensive than was envisaged at the start of the project. In spite of the increase in the amount of work required, BW Offshore […]

  • UK: A&P Tyne Completes Repairs on Acergy Eagle Vessel

    29 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    A&P GROUP’S Tyne shipyard has completed its second order this year for Subsea 7 – one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies. The Hebburn yard has just finished repairs to the construction and cable-laying vessel Acergy Eagle, similar to the work it carried out in the summer to the Seven Oceans, another […]

  • Norway: Noreco Sells Shares in Oselvar and Enoch to Marubeni Corporation for $43 million

    29 September 2010
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Energy Company ASA has signed an agreement to sell its shares in the Norwegian oil fields Oselvar and Enoch to Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni). Noreco’s main focus is finding oil and gas, and over the last years we have built a strong track record of exploration success. The final proof of success is however the […]

  • Moore Stephens: Shippers Facing High Environmental Compliance Bill

    28 April 2014
    Business & Finance

     Finding enough money to remain compliant with environmental regulation is going to be a challenge for shipowners and operators over the next few years, according to international accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens. Moore Stephens shipping partner Michael Simms says, “The Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, for example, has not yet entered into force, although […]

  • WSS Exhibits at Cruise Shipping Miami (USA)

    11 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    As major US maritime trade shows Cruise Shipping Miami and CMA kick off this week, Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s new VP for the Americas, Simon Hutt, said that it is time for WSS to put its’ ‘house in order’ and make good on its plans for growth across the Americas region. Hutt, who was formerly Area […]

  • Keppel Corporation Announces Another Record Year (Singapore)

    26 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Keppel Corporation announces another record year. Their net profit grew by 14% to a new high of nearly $1.5 billion. This is the fifth year running that their net profit has surpassed the $1 billion mark. Also for the fifth consecutive year, their Return on Equity has remained above 20%. Economic Value Added has also […]

  • Keppel Corporation Announces Another Record Year (Singapore)

    26 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Keppel Corporation announces another record year. Their net profit grew by 14% to a new high of nearly $1.5 billion. This is the fifth year running that their net profit has surpassed the $1 billion mark. Also for the fifth consecutive year, their Return on Equity has remained above 20%. Economic Value Added has also […]

  • Ørsted to Open United States Innovation Hub in Rhode Island

    16 January 2020
    Research & Development, Technology

    Ørsted is opening a United States Innovation Hub in Providence, Rhode Island in early spring as part of its commitment to building an offshore wind industry supply chain in the US. The Innovation Hub will be located in the CIC Providence workspace. To facilitate its mission, the Hub team will leverage Ørsted’s expertise across the […]

  • Dp Gezina – New Flagship for Chevalier Floatels Hits the Trail

    11 June 2013

    On 17 May in Hardinxveld-Giessendam on the Merwede River, the naming ceremony of the DP Gezina took place. Despite the terrible weather, nothing could be done to dampen the spirits or the mood of the day, as the association of Chevalier Floatels and Holland Shipyards took another big step forward with the unveiling of what […]

  • Equinor hands over development plan for multi-million gas tie-back in North Sea

    15 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has submitted a plan for the development and operation (PDO) for a gas discovery in the North Sea.

  • First oil flows from Apache’s Garten development

    5 December 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Apache Corporation has initiated production from its Garten development on Block 9/18a Area-W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea.

  • Dutch Government Selects TenneT as Offshore Grid Operator

    18 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Electricity transmission operator TenneT welcomed the Dutch government’s decision to appoint TenneT as the operator of the offshore power grid in the Netherlands. TenneT CEO Mel Kroon commented: “TenneT is keen to contribute to the energy transition in the Netherlands by realizing a future-proof offshore grid. A co-ordinated effort to connect offshore wind farms will lead […]

  • Statoil Announces Exciting Exploration Plans for NCS in 2014

    7 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil announces an exciting exploration programme in Norway also in 2014, building on the exploration successes of recent years. Statoil plans to drill 20-25 exploration wells on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in 2014, of which around two-thirds will be Statoil-operated. “Statoil’s exploration success rate on the Norwegian continental shelf has been over 70% the […]