Teekay’s first offshore accommodation unit, the Arendal Spirit, has left for sea trials. The company has made the announcement through its twitter account. The Arendal Spirit is a flotel based on the Sevan Marine cylindrical hull design. The unit was built at the COSCO shipyard in China. The accommo
Prosafe has said that its Safe Bristolia flotel will return to work in April this year.
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has initiated drilling at its Ivar Aasen field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The company is using the recently delivered Maersk Interceptor, dubbed the world’s largest jack-up rig, to drill three pilot wells in order to further map the subsurface. The drilling of
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has completed the first phase of the four-year-long plan for localizing offshore facilities equipment and components that the company has mostly secured from overseas suppliers. Since September last year, HHI and its local offshore equipment supply partners have been w
ABS, a provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, has awarded approval in principle (AIP) for Hyundai Heavy Industries’ next-generation HD12000 heavy duty, wide beam drillship design. The drillship, which can accommodate a 20,000-psi blowout preventer system, has been desig
Schlumberger, the world’s largest provider of oilfield services, will buy interest in a Russian drilling contractor Eurasia Drilling Company Limited (“EDC”). Under the agreement, the principal shareholders of EDC will take the company private. Upon delisting of the company from the London Stock Exch
Noble Energy, Inc. today announced that the Madison exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico reached the targeted Upper and Middle Miocene objectives and did not encounter commercial hydrocarbons. Drilled to a total depth of 16,859 feet on Mississippi Canyon 479, the well has been plugged and abandone
Energy services firm Bilfinger Salamis UK, has won new contracts with a combined total value of over £100million. Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded the contracts from clients including Apache and Taqa Bratani in the last three months. The company, part of Bilfinger’s Oil and Gas division, will b
A trial is set to begin in New Orleans, Lousiana today, to determine how much BP will pay in Clean Water Act penalties for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana last week said that for purposes o
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use West Epsilon rig for production drilling on the Gudrun field located in the North Sea. Gudrun is 50 kilometres north of the Sleipner Øst and Sleipner Vest fields. Water depth is around 110 metres. Gudrun has been de
Petrolia’s subsidiary, Petrolia Norway AS, has announced that drilling of exploration well 26/10-1 in PL674BS, offshore Norway, has started. The well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Zulu prospect in PL674BS, located 100 km west of Stavanger on the Norwegian west coast and approxima
British Transport Police has issued an appeal to trace offshore worker with links to Great Yarmouth after woman sexually assaulted in Grantham. British Transport Police (BTP) officers yesterday released images of a man they wish to speak with after a woman was sexually assaulted on a train travellin
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of maintenance, process safety and occupational health and safety at Ula platforms, located in the North Sea. BP Norge AS (BP) is the operator on the Ula field, an oil field in block 7/12 in the southern part of the North Sea. The
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of groups at particular risk and emergency preparedness on Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. From 10 to 13 November 2014, the PSA carried out an audit of the efforts of Ocean Rig and RWE Dea to identify and follow up gr
