EFC Group, a designer and manufacturer of instrumentation, monitoring, control and handling systems for the global oil and gas industry, has completed a £1.3 million ($2.2 million) contract to design and build a BOP and diverter control system for China based Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co
Norwegian oil giant Statoil has reportedly found a buyer for its Huldra platform, which has been on sale since 2011.
The first new-build semi-submersible drilling rig incorporating Wood Group Mustang Norway’s (WGMN’s) GG5000 floating hull design has been delivered to COSL Drilling Europe (CDE). The rig, built by CIMC Raffles, was recently on sea trials in China. The COSLProspector was designed to operate in water
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to carry out exploration drilling of well 16/7-11, in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator for exploration licences PL 072 B and PL 072 D in block 16/7 in the central North Sea. Statoil has applied for consent to drill e
The video shows the Borgholm Dolphin offshore facility in the North Sea being rocked by waves and strong gusts of wind. The Borgholm Dolphin is a semi-submersible offshore accommodation unit hired by BG Group in support of its Lomond field operation. Located around 260 kilometers east of Aberdeen, t
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of emergency preparedness, cranes and lifting at Valemon field, located in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator of the Valemon field, which is in the northern North Sea, west of the Kvitebjørn field. The field has been developed
Expro, an international oilfield services company, has secured a significant Europe CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) contract, providing fully integrated well testing and fluid sampling services for Statoil Petroleum AS in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Starting on January 1, 2015, t
Dear readers, in today’s list of the most read articles of this past week is an article of the arrival of the Pieter Schelte vessel to Rotterdam. To call it just a ‘vessel’ is an understatement. A platform installation / decommissioning and pipelaying vessel in one, it has been described as a twin-h
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has processed the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the 34/10-53 S (Rutil) discovery in the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen area in the North Sea. Statoil submitted the plan for development and operation to the authorities in December 2014. Production start
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted today an international rig count report for December 2014 on its Investor Relations website according to which the international offshore rig count is down by three rigs from last month’s count. The international rig count for December 2014 was 1,313, down 11 fro
EFC Group, a designer and manufacturer of controls, instrumentation, monitoring and handling systems for the global oil and gas drilling industry, has been awarded contracts with major oil and gas drilling contractor companies to the value of £3.65 million ($5.5 million). The company has completed t
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. a provider of offshore deepwater drilling rigs, has secured a contract extension for one of its drillships. In detail, the company said that Italy’s Eni has extended the contract for the drillship Ocean Rig Poseidon in Angola for a further one year until the second quarter of 2017
Trapoil has announced that a contract has been signed for a jack-up rig for the drilling of a well to test the Niobe prospect, in the North Sea. The Niobe prospect, formerly named Kratos, is located in the Licence P.1889, Blocks 12/26b and 12/27, within the Moray Firth. Suncor Energy UK is the opera
Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has informed that the restricted output from the Huntington field, located in the UK North Sea, continues. Noreco says that currently, no further clarification has been received about when normal operations at the CATS riser platform, which indirectly restricts Hunt
