Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by BP for the provision of additional living quarters, as part of BP’s Life Extension Project on the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) in the Central North Sea. The company notes that the BP ETAP Life E
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website. The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. has remained the same when compared to the previous week. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -6 to 842 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 6 rigs from last week to 842, with oil r
Primeline Energy Holdings Inc. has announced that its drilling contractor China Oilfield Service Ltd. (COSL) has started the mobilization of the rig for the drilling operation of LS23-1-1 well in the East China Sea. Following the signing of the drilling contract by Primeline with COSL on August 17,
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Suncor Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 25/10-14 S, in the central North Sea. According to the NPD, the well 25/10-14 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling program for well 25/10-14 S co
VAALCO Energy on Wednesday announced that the North Tchibala 1-H well, the first development well drilled by VAALCO in the North Tchibala field, offshore Gabon, has been brought online at a rate slightly in excess of 3,000 gross barrels of oil per day. This is, according to its press release, approx
VNG Norge AS has found oil in the Boomerang exploration well, located in production licence 586, in the southern Norwegian Sea. VNG Norge AS, operator of the production licence, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 6406/12-4 S and 6406/12-4 A. According to the Norwegian Petr
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Limited has notified Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd. that it has exercised its right to cancel the contract for the construction of the West Mira, a sixth generation ultra-deepwater harsh environment semi-submersible drilling rig. The rig was ordered during the
Paragon Offshore, an offshore drilling contractor, said Monday in its latest fleet status report that Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is looking to break off contracts for two Paragon’s drillships. According to Paragon, Petrobras said it might contest approximately 380 days of the drilling contract ba
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of Statoil’s administration of emergency preparedness, materials handling and lifting equipment maintenance at Sleipner platform, in the Norwegian North Sea. According to the PSA, the objective of the audit carried out from August
Chinese COSCO Nantong Shipyard has delivered a semi-submersible accommodation vessel to Atlantis Offshore Pte Ltd. According to COSCO, the accommodation rig was named Atlantis. It will be chartered to Mexico oilfield services company Cotemar, S.A. de C.V., which will use it in connection with servic
Quadrant Energy will begin drilling the Roc-1 well located in licence WA-437-P, offshore Western Australia, and adjacent to the recent Phoenix South-1 oil discovery by Apache, in November. Australian Quadrant Energy, the operator of the licence, contracted the Noble Tom Prosser jack-up rig to drill
Lloyd’s Register Energy this week, during the Offshore Europe event in Aberdeen, carried out a survey asking participants what they thought were the offshore oil and gas industry’s top issues. More specifically, the question was “Aside from costs and profitability, what do you see as the most signif
Norway’s engineering and construction company Kvaerner has signed the final contract for delivery of the steel jacket for the drilling platform to be deployed at the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup field. On June 26, 2014 Kvaerner entered into a frame agreement for delivery of steel jacket substruct
Lundin Norway has received a permit to drill an appraisal well 7220/11-3 A in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin the permit to drill the well in production licence 609, north-west of Hammerfest. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with 40 perc
