1444 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • Oceanteam Shipping Gets New Captain

    25 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Oceanteam Shipping has appointed Holger Reurslag, an experienced offshore energy player with a 25-year career in the offshore construction, drilling and production sector, to the role of the Company Captain. As the Company Captain, Reurslag will be responsible for a wide range of managerial tasks, including the management of the vessel’s crew and the execution of quality, health, safety […]

  • Malaysia’s SapuraKencana enters $5B refinancing deal

    20 March 2014

    Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad has successfully concluded and signed a RM16.5 billion (US$5 billion) refinancing club deal with 13 local, regional and international banks. The refinancing program was put in place to replace and streamline facilities that were inherited following the merger of SapuraCrest Petroleum and Kencana Petroleum in 2012. It was also undertaken for […]

  • With drilling plans on track, BPC to enable local investment

    28 November 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has decided to develop and implement a Bahamas-based mutual investment fund with the aim of owning BPC shares.

  • China: TSC Provides Equipment for Dalian-Built Jack-Up Rigs

    3 July 2013

    TSC recently signed a contract with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (“DSIC”) to provide equipment (BOP Cranes, Conductor Tensioning Units and Rack Cutting) for four units of JU2000E Jack-up drilling rigs to be built by DSIC. The total contract value is approximately US$17.59 million and will be completed by the first quarter of 2014. The rigs […]

  • Norsafe lifeboats for Culzean FSO

    30 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Norsafe has signed a contract with Singapore-based drilling rig builder Sembcorp Marine to deliver freefall lifeboats and davit systems for and ‘FSO to be installed in the UK sector of the North Sea.’ While Norsafe does not reveal the name of the North Sea project, it is safe to say that the FSO is destined for […]

  • Equinor bites dust in North Sea well

    18 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Fram field in the North Sea offshore Norway.

  • ExxonMobil to Use West Alpha for Balder Subsea Installation

    8 December 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    ExxonMobil has received consent to use West Alpha for production drilling, completion and installation of subsea equipment on the Balder field. Balder was the first oil field to be discovered on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, with Esso as the sole licensee in production licence 001. This happened as far back as 1967, more than two […]

  • Well-Safe Protector rig arrives home to prepare for decom work

    11 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment

    Well-Safe Solutions has welcomed home its new rig the Well-Safe Protector for preparations ahead of deployment in early 2021.

  • Archer names chairman and adds new board member

    24 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Oilfield services company Archer has elected a new chairman of the company as well as a new board member.

  • BP restarts drilling offshore Canada after June leak

    24 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    BP has resumed drilling operations offshore Nova Scotia, Canada, after it had stopped it following an offshore leak in June.

  • Popular news, Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2015

    4 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    A story about a fire outbreak on an offshore oil platform in Mexico was by far the most read article this past week on Offshore Energy Today.

  • CPOC, Hess Extend T-6 Contract (Malaysia)

    17 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Malaysia’s SapuraKencana today announced that it has, through its subsidiary, Tioman Drilling Company, secured a contract extension for the deployment to and utilisation for the self-erecting tender rig, the T-6. Carigali-PTTEPI (CPOC) and Carigali Hess have decided to extend the T-6 Contract for a further duration of three months commencing from 21 April 2013 until 20 […]

  • Update: Fredriksen CEO Put on Leave Following Arrest in Norway

    6 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Chief Executive Officer of the Fredriksen Group, Jo Lunder, who was apprehended by Norwegian police in Oslo on Wednesday, has been put on leave by the Group until further notice, according to Norwegian news agency NTB. Lunder is suspected of being involved in an alleged bribery case in Uzbekistan while working as head of VimpelCom, a Russian mobile operator. As […]

  • Lundin Begins Exploration Campaign Offshore Malaysia

    10 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum, a Sweden based oil and gas exploration and production company has kicked off its 2012 Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of the Tiga Papan 5 well in the SB307 & SB308 Block offshore Sabah, East Malaysia. The well will target mid-Miocene aged sands of the Tiga Papan Unit previously tested in 1982 […]

  • Norway: PSA Inspects West Elara for Emergency Preparedness

    11 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian governmental supervisory body, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) conducted an audit of how emergency preparedness aspects are reviewed on board the West Elara jack-up rig. The objective of the audit activity was to verify the organisation and management system on the facility as regards the preparedness discipline, as well as in relation to […]

  • Statoil gets green light to plug Huldra wells with ‘West Epsilon’

    14 March 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas company Statoil to use North Atlantic Drilling’s (NADL) jack-up rig West Epsilon to permanently plug wells at Huldra 30/2-A, in the North Sea. The field is located north of Oseberg in production licence 051, offshore Norway. According to the PSA, Statoil will be […]

  • Popular news, February 23 – March 1, 2015

    1 March 2015
    Exploration & Production

    What sparked your interest the most in the previous week was an article containing an infographic that details how oil prices affect everything. A research was carried out to investigate how the price of oil has had a huge effect on the global economy and how it impacts our lives in general. You will find that the […]

  • Oceanteam Shipping Gets New Captain

    25 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Oceanteam Shipping has appointed Holger Reurslag, an experienced offshore energy player with a 25-year career in the offshore construction, drilling and production sector, to the role of the Company Captain. As the Company Captain, Reurslag will be responsible for a wide range of managerial tasks, including the management of the vessel’s crew and the execution of quality, health, safety […]

  • Qatar Petroleum takes eight jack-up rigs for North Field Expansion project

    2 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Qatar Petroleum has awarded contracts for a total of eight offshore jack-up drilling rigs required for the North Field Expansion Project offshore Qatar. 

  • Seven drilling contractors unite for well control equipment failure tool

    14 January 2016
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Seven drilling contractors, including major players like Transocean and Seadrill, have joined forces to create a reporting tool for capturing well control equipment failures. According to one of these offshore drillers, Maersk Drilling, the tool captures all failures in a third party system and gives the equipment owners more leverage to instigate equipment improvements with […]

  • ExxonMobil hires rig for work in Canada

    18 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    ExxonMobil has awarded a deal for operations in Canada to a rig owned by SFL Corporation and managed by Odfjell Drilling. 

  • SapuraKencana PLSV starts Petrobras job

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Malaysia’s upstream oil and gas services provider SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad, has reached a key milestone in its international operations by starting ahead of schedule its first pipe-laying support vessel (PLSV) work for state-run Petrobras in the pre-salt waters off Brazil. This maiden foray for the SapuraKencana in Brazilian waters was undertaken by its brand new PLSV “Sapura […]

  • Canada: BP done with Aspy well plugging. Moves rig away

    13 December 2018
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    BP has completed the plugging and abandonment of the Aspy-1 well offshore Nova Scotia, Canada, and the drilling rig has moved away.

  • Noreq to Supply Lifesaving Packages for Multiple Newbuild Rigs in Singapore

    20 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    During recent weeks, noreq has been awarded several major contracts with Asian yards. Both Korea and Singapore is growing to be very important markets for Noreq. Some weeks back it was made official that Noreq was awarded the contract for Lifeboat packages for Maersk drillships being built with Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. This week, […]

  • IHC Merwede Splashes SAPURA DIAMANTE Pipelayer

    27 September 2013

    IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA DIAMANTE in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming of the innovative offshore vessel was carried out by Mrs Christina Lucia Duarte Pinho, the Executive Manager of Petrobras E&P Service. The 550t pipelaying vessel – ordered […]