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  • Wellesley hires Transocean rig for North Sea job

    26 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Wellesley Petroleum has made an agreement with Transocean for a three-firm slot contract with the Transocean Arctic semi-submersible rig. 

  • Faroe hires Transocean rig for Brasse East well

    23 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Faroe Petroleum has made a commitment to drill the Brasse East exploration well off Norway and awarded a rig contract to a Transocean semi-submersible. 

  • French oil firm boasts industry’s strongest supercomputer

    29 March 2016

    French oil and gas giant Total has boosted storage and computing power of its Pangea supercomputer in Pau, France, making it, Total says, the strongest unit of the kind withing the oil and gas industry. In a statement on Tuesday, the company said its Pangea supercomputer has increased its computing power from 2.3 to 6.7 petaflops. One […]

  • Bibby Offshore hires IMES for rigging inspection services

    24 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Bibby Offshore, a UK-based subsea services firm  has awarded a frame agreement for rigging equipment inspection and wire rope management to Aberdeen-based IMES. According to Bibby Offshore, the deal, potentially worth a seven-figure sum, has a duration of three years with a further two, one-year options. IMES executive chairman Rod Buchan said: “This agreement from a […]

  • Statoil hires Ocean Installer for Vigdis field work

    16 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has exercised an option with Ocean Installer for flexible jumper replacement at the Vigdis field. The option falls under an amendment to the previously awarded SLMP Marine Installation contract. The SLMP amendment was signed in December 2015 and covered riser replacement operations at the Troll C field. The option now exercised comprises the replacement […]

  • Petrobras: New well firms up Libra discovery

    18 February 2016

    Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has concluded the drilling of the well 3-BRSA-1305A-RJS (3-RJS-739A), located in the Libra block northwest area, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin off Brazil, confirming the discovery of good quality oil in reservoirs with excellent productivity. According to Petrobras, the well found an oil column of around 270 meters […]

  • Eight oil firms win offshore acreage in Ireland

    12 February 2016

    Eight oil companies have been awarded offshore acreage across fourteen blocks in Ireland’s latest licensing round. The companies have won two-year licensing options over the blocks offered. The round focuses on an area in the southern Porcupine Basin, where a number of applications included commitments to acquire new seismic surveys later this year Joe McHugh, Minister of […]

  • Six oil firms apply for Adriatic Sea acreage

    4 November 2014

    Croatia’s first public tender for the exploration and production of oil and gas in the Adriatic Sea closed yesterday at 2 p.m. local time. Six oil companies submitted bids for fifteen exploration blocks. Twenty nine exploration areas had been offered. “We are satisfied with the received offers. These are serious companies with extensive experience, using […]

  • Statoil hires ‘Island Frontier’ for well plugging gig

    4 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Island Frontier for preparatory well-plugging work at Statfjord Øst and Sleipner Øst in the North Sea.  Statoil has received consent to use Island Frontier, which is a well-intervention vessel, for work preparatory to subsequent permanent plugging of four wells, two at Statfjord […]

  • Wintershall hires VBMS for North Sea umbilical installation

    15 January 2015
    Equipment

    VBMS, a strategic joint venture of VolkerWessels and Boskalis, has been awarded another contract by Wintershall Noordzee B.V. The scope of work includes the installation, burial, survey and pull-ins of an 18.5km control umbilical which connects the Ravn platform to A6-A, located in the Danish and German sectors of the North Sea. The project will […]

  • PTTEP to spend $24 billion over five years

    23 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Thailand’s oil company PTTEP has allocated $24,3 billion for expenditure over the  five-year period from 2015 to 2019. PTTEP has said that the expenditures (chart below) have been revised to incorporate the latest business strategies and work programs. The estimated total expenditure for PTTEP in 2015 is around $4.8 billion. The following are highlights of the key […]

  • MHWirth firms up drilling equipment order with Keppel

    5 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production

    MHWirth has firmed up a $100 million worth drilling equipment order with Keppel FELS for a new semi-submersible rig which will be built for Awilco Drilling. 

  • BP hires Fluor for offshore compression job in Trinidad

    24 April 2017

    Oil major BP has hired Fluor for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Cassia compression project off the east coast of Trinidad and Tobago. Fluor said its scope included the design of a new offshore gas compression platform, new connecting bridge and modifications to the existing Cassia hub. The platform will compress gas […]

  • ConocoPhillips hires two rigs for ten-year terms

    11 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    North Atlantic Drilling Limited (NADL), a subsidiary of Seadrill, has secured ten-year contract awards for the jack-ups West Elara and West Linus with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia for work in the Greater Ekofisk Area offshore Norway.  NADL said on Tuesday that the total additional backlog for the new contract awards is estimated at $1.4 billion excluding performance […]

  • Petronas hands out fresh deals to five contractors

    16 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Petronas Carigali has awarded a contract for the provision of maintenance, construction and modification services (MCM) at its offshore facilities in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak to five local contractors.

  • Gulf Marine firms up two contract extensions

    10 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has been awarded contract extensions for two of its vessels. 

  • ExxonMobil hires Handal for offshore crane services in Malaysia

    4 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Malaysian offshore crane services company Handal Offshore Services has been awarded a three-year contract with ExxonMobil in Malaysia.  According to a Bursa Malaysia filing on Thursday by Handal’s parent company, Handal Resources, the contract for the provision of onshore overhaul, major repair and refurbishment services for offshore cranes to ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia was entered into on […]

  • CHC to lease five helicopters for energy transport missions

    1 August 2017

    Offshore helicopter specialist CHC Helicopter will expand its fleet with five new aircraft to be leased from GECAS’ Milestone Aviation Group Limited. This transaction will add three new Leonardo AW189s and two Airbus H175s from Milestone’s order book with the manufacturers to CHC’s global fleet. According to CHC, the new helicopters will be configured for […]

  • BW Offshore gets overdue dayrates for FPSO hire

    2 June 2017
    Infrastructure

    BW Offshore’s subsidiary, Sendje Berge Limited, has informed that all outstanding dayrates in respect of the hire of the FPSO Sendje Berge have now been paid by Sinopec’s subsidiary, Addax.  The payment was made in accordance with the arbitration award from February 2017, where the tribunal declared Addax to pay all outstanding dayrates and to […]

  • Hong Kong investment firm buying 53% of Hyperdynamics

    3 November 2017

    The stock purchase agreement provides that Ray Leonard will remain President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the company

  • Freeport-McMoRan hires Subsea 7 for GoM development

    16 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 S.A. has been awarded a contract in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas in support of its  development of the KOQV and Holstein Deep fields. The contract value is in excess of $50 million. The scope of work covers the installation of flexible pipelines and umbilicals for both fields, […]

  • Three firms enter rig services pact in Norway

    3 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    The three oil service providers Bergen Group ASA, Semco Maritime and Apply Rig & Modules have entered into agreement to establish the partnership Hanøytangen Rig Services. The rig services market is growing and with a unique, integrated offering, the partnership sees potential to become a leading provider of comprehensive rig service projects. The strategically located, well-established yard facilities at […]

  • Reach Subsea’s vessel hired by ExxonMobil for construction work

    15 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Reach Subsea has entered into a contract with EXXON Mobil for the vessel Stril Explorer for light construction work in the North Sea. Total contract value is approximately NOK 15 million. Furthermore, Reach Subsea has entered into new cooperation contracts with MMT for cooperation on Offshore Survey and delivery of ROV-services. The collaboration has already resulted in multiple operations for […]

  • Technip hires Seamec Princess for work offshore Dubai

    7 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Seamec Ltd has informed that vessel Seamec Princess will complete its charter with Kreuz Subsea in South East Asia in the second week of April, 2014. The company has entered into a charter with the French oilfield services provider Technip for the deployment of the DP2 Saturation Diving Support vessel offshore Dubai. The contract is for […]

  • Origin Energy hires rig for Yolla field drilling

    1 April 2014

    Origin Energy Limited (Origin), as operator of the BassGas Joint Venture, today announced that Seadrill Australia Pte Ltd (Seadrill) has been contracted to provide the drilling rig for the project’s upcoming work program in Bass Strait’s Yolla gas field. The West Telesto drilling rig is expected to be mobilised during the 2014/15 Australian summer to drill the Yolla-5 and […]