The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has resolved to investigate an incident where a person fell overboard from Scarabeo 8 on the Goliat field in the Barents Sea on February 20, 2015. After being recovered by the Esvagt Aurora, the person involved was sent to Hammerfest Hospital with minor in
Songa Offshore has agreed upon final delivery dates for Cat D rigs with South Korea’s shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). To remind, Statoil awarded the contract for construction of two Cat D rigs to Songa in 2011 and they were scheduled for delivery in 2014. The second orde
BP’s attempt to reduce a maximum fine for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill under the Clean Water Act has fallen on deaf ears. In a ruling brought by the U.S. District Court Eastern Disctrict of Louisiana, Judge Barbier agreed with the U.S. government’s position that the maximum penalty should be $4,3
Rowan Companies, a Houston-based drilling contractor, will shut down another rig. This time it is the Rowan Louisiana jack-up drilling rig. In its fleet status report issued this week the company has said it is preparing the rig for cold stacking, meaning the rig will be idled, crew let go, and all
Maersk Oil has decided to plug and abandon exploration well 6406/6-4 in the PL 510 licence, in the Norwegian Sea. According to North Energy, a partner in the licence, the decision follows a period of difficulties in a liner setting covering the intermediate part of the well, named the Tvillingen Sou
Transocean Cepheus, Transocean Cassiopeia, Transocean Centaurus, Transocean Cetus and Transocean Circinus are five jack-up drilling rigs to be built by Singapore’s Keppel yard for Transocean, a drilling contractor. However, in its fleet status report dated February 17, the Swiss-based offshore drill
Canadian Natural Resources International (CNR) oil company has evacuated oil workers from its offshore platform in the UK North Sea. According to Evening Express, the company yesterday removed workers from the Ninian Central Platform, located around 249 nautical miles from Aberdeen. The newspaper ha
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has decided to initiate an investigation following a hydrocarbon leak on the Gudrun field in the North Sea on February 18, 2015. The hydrocarbon leak on the Statoil-operated Gudrun field occurred at 06:40 on Wednesday, February 18. Production was then shut
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well the 6706/12-2, cf. in the Norwegian Sea. The company will use the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig for the operation at the well, informally know as Snefrid Nord, located at the produc
There has been a gas leak at the Statoil-operated Gudrun platform in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. According to Offshore.no, a Norwegian website covering the country’s oil and gas sector, the leak occurred on the platform earlier this morning. No injuries have been reported to the crew. There
A worker on an offshore platform in the UK North Sea has been blasted with radiation
Saudi Aramco has informed that the heavy lift barge Lan Jing completed the installation of the Hasbah tie-in platform (TP) using its 7,500-ton crane, carrying weight that reached about 5,000 tons – which is, according to the company, its new record for heavy lift operation. The new tie-in platform w
A semi-submersible drilling rig reportedly caught fire in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Friday, February 13, 2015. According to gCaptain, which was first to report the news, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the incident had happened on an offshore rig when a fire broke out in the engine room. gCaptain cl
Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, has said that its President and Chief Executive Officer Steven Newman will step down, effective February 16, 2015. Additionally, Newman has elected to resign as a Director of Transocean Ltd. Until a permanent replacement is named,
