DOF has been awarded two six-year charter contracts with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS for two supply vessels of STX PSV 09 design. DOF has been awarded two six-year charter contracts with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS for two supply vessels of STX PSV 09 design. Both contracts include additional op
The Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Riis-Johansen, officially opened the Gjøa oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea yesterday in presence of Gerard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ. Gjøa has been the largest recent industrial project in Norway. It has been developed
If electricity generated by offshore wind turbines is going to be competitive with electricity generated by other means, the projected price… By Bill Trotter (bangordailynews) [mappress] Source: bangordailynews, January 26, 2011
Maine has plenty of energy in its offshore winds, but building the turbines and their platforms for offshore electricity generation presents… By John Hale (villagesoup) [mappress] Source: villagesoup, January 26, 2011
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Dimitar Gogov, Executive Director of Bulgargaz EAD. The parties discussed the current status and the prospects for cooperation in the gas sector, and focused on the trans
An excavator formed an unusual yet highly effective partnership with a dredging vessel on the Lincolnshire coast in England last summer. Working on the Lincshore project, the Hitachi ZX470LCH-3 crawler excavator and trailing suction hopper dredger, Vlaanderen XX, have helped to ensure that future ge
Mustang, a Wood Group Company, and Sime Darby’s Energy & Utilities Division have entered into a joint-venture to form a new company called Mustang Sime Darby. The new company will provide project management, design and procurement support services for the Southeast Asian oil & gas industry from its
CAMAC Energy Inc. , a U.S.-based energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas, announced that the well intervention operation on the Oyo #5 well, located in the Oyo Field located offshore Nigeria, which commenced in December 2010 to reduce the gas production f
The national oil company Sonangol has publicly announced that the Angolan jury of the bid rounds has elected Statoil for operatorship and participation in several pre-salt blocks offshore Angola. Statoil has submitted its proposal as part of the pre-salt restricted public bid round organised by Sona
A Petrobras announces a new discovery of good quality oil in the pre-salt reservoirs of block BM-S-9, in ultra deep waters of Santos Basin. The discovery was a result of the drilling of well 3-BRSA-861-SPS (3-SPS-74), informally known as Carioca Nordeste, located in a water depth of 2,151m and 275 k
SeaBird Exploration PLC announces through its wholly owned subsidiary SeaBird Exploration FZLLC the execution of a second contract with Chevron North Sea Limited (on behalf of itself and the other Rosebank partners: Statoil (U.K.) Ltd., OMV (U.K.) Ltd., and DONG E&P (U.K.) Ltd) for the next stage of
Cape Industrial Services Ltd has awarded EnerMech a three year contract for the provision of plant and equipment support. The contract, worth an estimated £4.5 million (approximatelyUSD $7.1 million) , covers the rental and supply of power generation and blasting, tooling, lifting and rigging equipm
Total announces discoveries from the Bilondo Marine 2 and 3 wells (BILDM-2 and BILDM-3), drilled in a water depth of 800 metres in the central area of the Moho-Bilondo license, approximately 70 kilometres offshore the Republic of the Congo. They follow the successful exploration wells Moho Nord Mari
Hercules Offshore, Inc. announces an investment of $10 million in Discovery Offshore S.A. (“Discovery Offshore”), a newly formed Luxembourg-based company, focused on ownership of ultra high-specification jackup rigs. Discovery Offshore will construct two ultra high-specification jackup rigs, with op
