Fossil Energy
OEG Offshore names CFO
OEG Offshore, a provider of offshore cargo carrying units, has appointed Adrian Bannister as chief financial officer (CFO) of the OEG Offshore group of companies. Bannister will assume responsibility for the group’s global finance team activity, including accounting, taxation, regulatory and reporti
Claxton boosts riser stock for heavy-duty jack-ups
Claxton, an Acteon company, is extending its large surface riser inventory to meet operators’ needs as more heavy-duty jack-up rigs enter the North Sea. The company, which already has more than 560 feet of rapid call-off surface riser stock, is adding new joints in the size and pressure required to
PSA probes Statoil’s design engineering of Cat J rigs
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil’s design engineering of Cat J drilling rigs. The basis of the audit was Barriers and At-risk groups. The PSA said that the audit’s themes concerned occupational health and safety, drilling and well activities, materials
DeepOcean hires ‘Rem Forza’
Rem Offshore ASA has entered into a charter agreement with DeepOcean AS with the Construction Support Vessel “Rem Forza”. The charter agreement is for a duration of three years with another three yearly options. The vessel is of MT 6022 design. In addition Micoperi SRL has exercised one option with
Popular news, January 12 – 18, 2015
The articles you have read the most in the past week include Offshore Energy Today’s coverage of two videos; the first video shows Borgholm Dolphin offshore facility being rocked by waves and strong winds in the North Sea and the second one shows the Alvheim FPSO being battered by the winter storm N
RMT: Workforce reductions will impair offshore safety
As unions in the UK enter into crisis talks with oil and gas chiefs in Aberdeen today, offshore union RMT has released an improvement notice served on BP by the HSE UK. RMT says that the notice exposes the inherent dangers of axing staff when a backlog of essential works is being allowed to stack [&
Det norske to develop Viper-Kobra discoveries using Alvheim FPSO
Norwegian oil company Det norske has decided to develop Viper-Kobra discoveries in the North Sea. The project comprises two small discoveries in the Alvheim area, offshore Norway. According to plan, approximately 7 500 barrels will be flowing into the Alvheim FPSO every day around Christmas time 201
Schlumberger axes 9,000 jobs
Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services provider, has announced that the company will cut 9,000 jobs. Schlumberger says that, in response to lower commodity pricing and anticipated lower exploration and production spending in 2015, the company decided to reduce its overall headcount in o
Gallery: Rem Arctic PSV launched in Norway
Kleven Verft has launched Rem Offshore’s newbuild Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) in Norway. The launching took place at Kleven Verft yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway on Thursday, January 15, 2015. Kleven notes that the vessel is specially designed for operations in Arctic. According to Rem Offshore, it was
BP facing $13.7B fine for Deepwater Horizon
Ruling on the issues raised in the Phase 2 trial of the Deepwater Horizon case: the quantification of oil spilled and BP’s source control efforts following the accident, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana found BP was not grossly negligent, reckless, wilful, or wanton
December oil production below prediction (Norway)
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has informed that preliminary production figures for December 2014 indicate an average daily production of about 1 916 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 45 000 barrels per day (about 2 percent) less than in November 2014. Total gas sales were a
Repsol’s Canary Islands stint comes to an end
Spanish oil company Repsol has completed the exploration well, located offshore the Canary Islands. The well, spudded in November, in the Atlantic Ocean about 60 kilometres from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura was drilled to analyse the possible existence of hydrocarbons. According to the company, the a
DECC calls for urgent review of North Sea industry
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the UK, Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, visited Aberdeen yesterday afternoon for talks with oil and gas industry leaders against a backdrop of the recent dramatic slide in world oil prices. The Secretary of State announced that he is asking Andy Samuel, CE
Olympic scores double
Norwegian shipping company, Olympic Ship AS, has informed that two of its vessels have been awarded new contracts. M/V Olympic Triton was awarded a new contract, firm for one-year plus an additional optional year, up to two years total. The contract was awarded by Demar in Mexico. The vessel will pe