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  • Norway: union, employers reach wage deal, strike avoided

    7 October 2016

    A wages deal between the trade union for personnel working in the Norwegian energy sector, SAFE, and the employers, has been reached in the early hours on Friday, avoiding a strike of some 338 workers.

  • Woodside CEO sees first Browse LNG in mid-2020s

    5 May 2017

    Woodside Chief Executive Peter Coleman said Friday that the company expects first liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from its Browse field offshore Western Australia in the mid-2020s. Speaking at the company’s annual general meeting, Coleman confirmed that is more likely the natural gas from the Browse field would be processed onshore instead of a floating LNG […]

  • Chalk Fields Still Have a Lot to Offer, NPD Says

    17 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the Danish Energy Agency and ten oil companies will cooperate on research and development and share experience to improve recovery from chalk fields on the Norwegian and Danish shelves. The NPD and the Danish Energy Agency have taken the initiative for the Joint Chalk Research programme phase 7. Since 1982, […]

  • Western Gas partners with Pluto LNG and North West Shelf for Equus gas processing

    20 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Project & Tenders

    Australia’s Western Gas has signed separate nonbinding agreements with Pluto LNG and the North West Shelf Project participants for the processing of 2-3 Mtpa of Equus gas from 2027 utilising Woodside-operated infrastructure. The agreements outline the key terms and process for undertaking the participants’ joint technical studies and negotiating, as well as finalising fully termed […]

  • Namibian oil prospect gets ‘well-known’ players’ attention, extending farm-out timeline

    24 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Global Petroleum, an AIM-listed oil and gas upstream exploration company presently focused on Africa and the Mediterranean, has decided to prolong its previous timeline to secure a farm-in agreement with a potential operating partner for its petroleum exploration license (PEL) 94 in Block 2011A in the Walvis Basin, off the coast of Namibia.

  • Report: UK North Sea operator up for sale

    10 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ping Petroleum, a private company with assets in the UK North Sea, has reportedly been put up for sale. According to the Malaysian business website The Edge Markets, Jefferies International has been tasked with finding a buyer for the company that owns a 50 percent share in the Anasuria Cluster of oil fields in the […]

  • Shearwater adds tenth vessel to active fleet as ‘seismic market gains traction’

    22 May 2019

    Shearwater GeoServices has decided to bring the tenth vessel into active operation for the 2019 northern hemisphere summer season on the back of strong backlog.

  • First Borssele III & IV wind turbine installed

    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 […]

  • Equinor renews Wood’s contract for UK oilfield support services

    2 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    UK engineering and consulting company Wood has secured a contract extension to provide operations, maintenance, modifications, and support services (OMMS) on the assets located on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) operated by the Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor.

  • IKM Group to employ up to 70 persons as part of contract for Norway’s PRSI Pool

    31 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian state-owned energy firm Equinor has awarded Sola-based IKM Group with a contract for the provision of services for the Pipeline Repair and Subsea Intervention (PRSI) Pool, with about 50-70 people expected to be employed for the work. The PRSI Pool includes 23 companies covering their offshore pipeline and power cable repair contingency via the […]

  • Maersk Oil, Copenhagen University Deepening Knowledge on Chalk Reservoirs

    8 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Oil has embarked on a 5-year joint research project with the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Geography and Geology (DGG) entailing an unprecedented level of collaboration and data sharing to deepen its understanding of chalk reservoirs in the Danish North Sea. Maersk Oil will mentor several PhD students for up to half a year […]

  • Woodside brings Persephone online

    14 August 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Australian energy company Woodside has brought online its Persephone project offshore Western Australia.  The Persephone gas field is located in production license WA-1-L, some 135 km north west of Karratha, in a water depth of around 126 meters. The project was completed six months ahead of schedule. Woodside is the operator of the project with BP, BHP, Chevron, […]

  • McDermott inks JIP for offshore engineering standardization

    18 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    McDermott International has joined with 14 other offshore companies in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish engineering industry standards. Known as the Standardization Unified Joint Industry Project (JIP), the one-year agreement sets out the terms and conditions upon which the signing parties shall establish industry standards for offshore engineering, McDermott explained on Wednesday. According […]

  • Technip to Build Malaysia’s First Tension Leg Platform

    8 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Technip, in a joint venture with Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd (MMHE), was awarded by Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Ltd (SSPC) a substantial contract(2) for the engineering, procurement and construction of a tension leg platform (TLP) for the TLP Malikai Deepwater Project. This TLP will be designed as a fully-manned platform to be […]

  • Oman LNG inks supply deals with TotalEnergies and Thailand’s PTT

    18 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Oman LNG has signed two binding term-sheet agreements, one with French energy major TotalEnergies and one with Thailand’s PTT Global LNG Company, to supply 1.6 million metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG starting from 2025, according to Omani state news agency. The agreement with TotalEnergies will see Oman LNG supplying a total volume of […]

  • Plexus’ Russian Licensee Installs First POS-GRIP for Gazprom

    24 September 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Plexus Holdings’ Russian licensee, LLC Gusar, has installed the first wellhead for Gazprom as part of the previously announced contract to supply POS-GRIP rental wellhead gas exploration equipment to OAO Gazprom, the global energy giant. The wellhead installation marks the beginning of Gusar’s contracted work with Gazprom for the first year of an up to […]

  • Chevron, Woodside acquire blocks offshore Australia

    5 October 2017

    Australian entity of oil major Chevron has acquired exploration interests in three offshore blocks located in the Northern Carnarvon Basin off Western Australia. Chevron Australia said on Thursday that it acquired an interest in blocks WA-528-P, WA-529-P, and WA-530-P which cover 23,170 square kilometers. The three blocks are located some 220 km northwest of Dampier […]

  • UK: OGA awards contracts for petroleum system studies

    6 February 2017

    UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), in collaboration with the 21CXRM Technical Advisory Committee, has awarded two contracts for petroleum system studies for the East Shetland Platform and South West Approaches area offshore the UK. The provision of the studies has been supported by the MER UK Exploration Task Force and will complement the acquisition […]

  • Apache to Use AGR’s RMR on Its Coniston Development, Western Australia

    25 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Apache Energy Ltd has signed up to use AGR’s Riserless Mud Recovery (RMR®) system. Apache will use the RMR® solution for the first time during batch drilling of six top holes on its Coniston Development, offshore Western Australia, pending receipt of all necessary Government and other approvals for the project, which are anticipated later this […]

  • Chevron sells Gorgon gas to China

    19 January 2016

    Chevron has signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HoA) with ENN LNG Trading Company Limited (ENN) for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China from the Chevron-operated Gorgon natural gas project, offshore W. Australia. When the deal is finalized, ENN is expected to receive up to 0.5 million metric tons per annum (MTPA) of […]

  • ‘Ensco 122’ jack-up getting ready for NAM contract

    17 September 2014
    Exploration & Production

    Ensco, a UK-based offshore drilling contractor, has informed that, following a long journey from Singapore, its new ENSCO 122 jack-up rig has arrived in the Netherlands where the rig will start its initial contract with NAM later this year.

  • Oman forms national hydrogen alliance to push energy transition

    13 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition

    Oman has has brought together 13 public and private-sector institutions to set up a national alliance in order to develop a hydrogen supply chain for the clean fuel industry.

  • Gassco takes over Polarled pipeline operatorship

    4 May 2017

    Norway’s Statoil has transferred the operatorship for the Polarled subsea pipeline linking the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea and Nyhamna to Gassco. According to Statoil, the 482-kilometer pipeline between the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea and Nyhamna in Møre og Romsdal was delivered NOK 4.5 billion below budget. Polarled is the first […]

  • GEA: Federal Government Should Not Abandon Commitment to LNG as Transport Fuel (Australia)

    28 February 2014

    Shell’s recent decision to halt plans to build eight LNG refuelling stations on the Hume Highway doesn’t mean the Federal Government should abandon its commitment to LNG as a transport fuel. In fact, it reinforces the need for Australia to develop its natural resources to meet our future energy needs, Gas Energy Australia’s CEO and Director, Mike Carmody […]

  • Nearly 94 pct of Gulf of Mexico oil output still offline after Hurricane Ida

    1 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Safety

    While some of the oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has been brought online after Hurricane Ida, nearly 94 per cent remains offline.