5136 results found for 'french guiana'

5136 results found for 'french guiana'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • BP evacuates workers from Thunder Horse platform amid power outage

    20 September 2017

    British oil giant BP has reportedly evacuated workers from its Thunder Horse platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, after a power outage According to Reuters, the oil company said on Monday 300 workers had been removed from the platform as a precaution. Production has been halted. Offshore Energy Today has reached out to BP, […]

  • Eni CEO, Egypt’s president talk offshore gas

    27 November 2015

    Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Italian oil company Eni, met Thursday with the Egypt president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to discuss Eni’s operations in Egpyt. According to a statement by Eni issued on Thursday, special attention was given to Eni’s progress on the plan for the development of the giant Zohr gas discovery Eni made in September. […]

  • South Stream still on, Saipem says. Shares drop

    2 December 2014
    Equipment

    Italian Saipem, a company which was supposed to carry out a giant part of the South Stream pipeline work in the Black Sea, has said that the work on the project will continue, despite Vladimir Putin saying it will not. The company said that, while noting the statements by the Russian president end Gazprom CEO, […]

  • Höegh LNG Partners see rise in Q4 profit

    28 February 2018

    Höegh LNG Partners, the Bermuda-based limited partnership formed by Norway’s floating giant Höegh LNG, reported a $25.4 million net income for the fourth quarter of 2017.

  • BP’s quarterly profit hits five-year high

    30 October 2018

    UK-based energy giant and LNG player BP reported a surge in profit during the third quarter, hitting the highest quarterly figure in over five years.

  • Hoegh LNG Partners posts revenue rise

    24 August 2017

    Höegh LNG Partners, the Bermuda-based limited partnership formed by Norway’s floating giant Höegh LNG, reported a 54 percent rise in its revenue for the second quarter of this year. The MLP’s time charter revenues rose to $35 million for the second quarter of this year compared to $22.8 million in the same period last year. Net […]

  • McConnell Dowell wins Tangguh LNG expansion contract

    12 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Australian construction company McConnell Dowell has been awarded a job on the BP-operated Tangguh LNG plant expansion project in Indonesia.

  • Chevron starts Gorgon LNG Train 2 production, profits decline

    28 October 2016

    Production at the second liquefaction train of Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project has started according to the company’s chairman and CEO John Watson.

  • Top news of the week October 17-23

    23 October 2016

    Italy: HIGAS wins governmental approval for Sardinia LNG project HIGAS, a joint venture between Gas and Heat and CPL Concordia, received the final governmental approval for the construction and operation of the small-scale LNG storage facility in Santa Giusta (Oristano), Italy. Nakilat takes over its LNG fleet management from Shell Qatari LNG shipping company, Nakilat, […]

  • Petronas commissions Train 9 at Bintulu LNG complex

    4 October 2016

    Malaysian energy giant Petronas said that it has produced the commissioning cargo at its newly completed Train 9 at the Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.

  • HHI Axes Quarter of Its Executive Personnel

    28 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has laid off 25 per cent of its executives as a first step within the framework of its massive job-cutting plan, expected to include up to 3,000 jobs. HHI embarked on an ambitious restructuring plan in 2014 which is expected to include slashing of 10 percent of its […]

  • Höegh LNG takes COVID-19 mitigation measures

    25 March 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Norway-based floating LNG giant Höegh LNG reached for mitigating measures to cope with the effects of COVID-19 outbreak and continue operations.

  • Energy transition needs to pick up the pace to counter uncertainty over net zero targets

    6 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Equinor has highlighted that the speed and scale of the energy transition have to increase to reach the 1.5-degree ambition by 2050.

  • Tap Oil Starts Acquisition of a Large 3D Seismic Survey Offshore Accra, Ghana

    10 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Tap Oil Limited (“Tap”) commenced acquisition of a large 3D seismic survey in the Offshore Accra Contract Area, Ghana, on 9 January 2011. The survey has been brought forward in the exploration program because recent studies have highlighted additional potential in the deep water portion of the block which requires 3D data for maturation. Since […]

  • Sterling to Soon Start Drilling at Cladhan & Grian, UK North Sea

    17 February 2011
    Business & Finance

     Sterling Resources Ltd. announces that drilling is expected to commence within the next few days at both Cladhan (Blocks 210/29a & 210/30a) and Grian (Block 48/28b) in the UK North Sea, as drill rigs are currently being towed to the respective sites. At the Cladhan discovery, at least one well and a sidetrack will be […]

  • UK oil & gas firm gleans more insight into Namibian asset’s hydrocarbon prospectivity

    16 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Tower Resources has undertaken a basin and thermal maturity study within its operated license PEL 96 in Namibia.

  • Jack-up duo reborn: Petrodec unveils fused platform at Damen’s shipyard

    22 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Damen Shiprepair, part of the Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen Shipyards Group, has hosted a naming ceremony for a self-elevating heavy lift jack-up, being repurposed from two former units by decommissioning services specialist Petrodec, at its yard in Rotterdam. 

  • MAIB: Domingue’s Fatal Sinking Partly Due to Inexperienced Crew

    19 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    The inexperience of the crew of the Domingue tug that sank while assisting the container ship CMA CGM Simba in the port of Tulear, Madagascar in September 2016 was one of the reasons behind the tug’s sinking that resulted in two deaths. A report from the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) of the incident found that aside to Domingue’s […]

  • Höegh LNG’s profit jumps on FSRU momentum

    27 February 2019

    Norway’s floating LNG giant Höegh LNG reported a $45 million net profit for the fourth quarter of the year 2018, as momentum in the FSRU market gained pace. 

  • SBM Offshore in talks to collect Yme insurance cash

    17 July 2017

    Dutch offshore facilities provider SBM Offshore has agreed heads of terms with some of it insurers for the settlement of SBM’s claims related to the troubled Yme platform SBM had delivered to Talisman (now Repsol) in 2011. SBM Offshore said that the head of terms was reached with a 73.6% majority group of the US$500 […]

  • Repsol’s 1H profit slumps by 20 percent

    30 July 2015

    Spanish oil company Repsol has posted during the first half of 2015 net income of 1.053 billion euros ($1.15 billion), which is 20.6% less than the 1.327 billion euros ($1.45 billion) in the corresponding period last year.  The company’s adjusted net income was 1.24 billion euros ($1.36 billion), 35% more than the 922 million euros (around […]

  • Delays ahead for Allseas’ giant vessel

    8 September 2015

    The Pioneering Spirit, one of the largest vessels in the world, owned by the Swiss-based Allseas Group, will wait some more before embarking on its first contract. The 382-meter long giant is still in Rotterdam, undergoing the final outfitting, following the delivery from South Korea’s Daewoo Heavy Industries yard. The vessel reached the Netherlands in January […]

  • Repsol, Eni start up Perla offshore Venezuela

    6 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Repsol has started up the first producing well at the giant Perla field, the largest gas discovery in the company’s history and the largest offshore gas field in Latin America, holding 17 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas in place. Perla is located in the Cardón IV block, in shallow waters in the Gulf of […]

  • KBR takes on more work at Shell’s giant gas project in Trinidad and Tobago

    14 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    U.S. science, technology, and engineering player KBR has won an engineering and procurement services contract for upgrade work related to a gas development project, which is envisioned to boost the liquified natural gas (LNG) arsenal in Trinidad and Tobago. KBR will work on the Beachfield Manatee upgrade, which represents the onshore portion of the Manatee gas […]

  • World’s first green methanol-powered boxship visits Gothenburg

    12 October 2023
    Ports & Logistics, Transition, Vessels

    Laura Maersk, the world’s first green methanol-powered containership owned by Danish Shipping giant A.P.Moller Maersk, has visted the Port of Gothenburg.