Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor, has agreed with Shell and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) to delay the operating and delivery contracts of two newbuild drillships. The Deepwater Pontus and the Deepwater Poseidon ultra-deepwater drillships will be delayed by 12 months
Indian offshore drilling company Aban Offshore has secured a contract for one of its jack-up rigs. The 34 years old rig, Aban II, will work for ONGC, the national oil company of India, for a period of three years. The rig, formerly known as the Griffin Alexander III, was built in 1981 in Bethlehem S
Lundin Petroleum, independent oil and gas exploration and production company, has made a small gas discovery with the Mengkuang-1 exploration well in license PM307, offshore Malaysia. Lundin started drilling the well at the start of October. The well targeted hydrocarbons in Miocene aged sands 75 km
Baker Hughes has again posted its Weekly Rig Count reports for the U.S. and Canada. U.S. Offshore rigs recorded a slight rise in numbers.
Alabama, a southeastern U.S. state, has agreed to a settlement with Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc., which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig destroyed in the catastrophic explosion and fire which occurred in April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. In the explosion, 11 men aboard were
China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co., Ltd has awarded the Netherlands-headquartered AEG Power Solutions (AEG PS), a contract to secure its BT-4000 semi-submersible platform power supply with a customized solution based on AEG PS Protect 8 industrial UPS. According to AEG PS’ press relea
Fred. Olsen Energy has received a notice of arbitration from South Korea’s rig builder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI). Namely, the Oslo-listed company said Thursday that its subsidiary Bollsta Dolphin Pte. Ltd (Bollsta), had received a notice in which HHI alleges that it is entitled to an a
Shell’s $1 billion exploration program in the Shelburne Basin, about 250 kilometers off southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, is being criticized by the environmentalists. The Canadian branch of international conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has raised concerns about Shell Canada Ltd
Vidar Helgesen (Conservative Party of Norway), minister of European Economic Area (EEA) and EU affairs, has paid a visit to the Statoil-operated ‘Troll A’ platform, in the Troll field, located in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The reason behind the visit was the start-up of the two new giant c
An offshore worker died aboard a Chevron-operated drillship in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. According to Reuters, the incident happened aboard the Pacific Santa Ana drillship. The news agency has quoted Chevron as saying that an investigation has been initiated into the cause behind the acc
Stena IceMAX Drillship, owned by the UK company Stena Drilling, arrived in the Nova Scotia’s waters on Tuesday. The vessel will work on Shell Canada’s $1 billion exploration program in the Shelburne Basin, about 250 kilometres off southwestern Nova Scotia. Shell submitted a successful bid for the ar
INPEX Corporation on Tuesday published a video that shows a launch of its Ichthys Project central processing facility (CPF) from the offshore floating dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project launched the CPF on September 19, 2015,
Det norske oljeselskap AS, the operator of the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea, has shared images of a helideck being lifted on top of the Living Quarters (LQ) for the Ivar Aasen platform, being built by Apply Leirvik in its construction site in Stord, Norway. According to Det norske, it took thre
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has shared a photo of the topsides for Marathon Oil’s new Alba B3 platform, loaded on a seagoing barge in Zwijndrecht yard in the Netherlands. Preparations are now under way for a sail away to the Heerema Vlissingen yard, where the lower part of the platform, the jack
