Fossil Energy
BP Connects Risers to Skarv FPSO. Production Starts in Q4 2012 (Norway)
PGNiG Norway, a subsidiary of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA, was last week notified by BP, the operator of the Skarv project, of successful connection of all 13 risers to the FPSO vessel, enabling the launch of oil and gas production from the Skarv field. To date, the connection of rise
PSA Norway Inspects Statoil’s Heidrun Platform
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway conducted an audit of stability, ballasting and offloading of the Heidrun oil platform. The audit activity was conducted at Statoil’s offices in Stjørdal, with the objective of ensuring that the systems for stability, ballasting and offloading of the Heidrun fac
France to Host World Gas Conference in 2015
In a celebration at the Traders Hotel last night, Datuk (Dr) Abdul Rahim Hashim, President, International Gas Union (IGU), 2009-2012 Triennium, officially handed over the IGU Presidency for the 2012-2015 Triennium on behalf of Malaysia, to IGU Vice President and Senior Vice-President of TOTAL, Franc
Talisman Contracts EnerMech for Offshore Cranes Management (UK)
Mechanical engineering group EnerMech has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to manage the UK North Sea offshore crane assets of Talisman Energy (UK) Limited. The five-year contract, with two additional one year options, is the Aberdeen-based mechanical engineering group’s largest single co
Blue Ship Orders Four Platform Supply Vessels from Ulstein (Norway)
Market trends and very good feedback from the first ship in operation triggers Blue Ship Invest to contract another four platform supply vessels (PSVs) of the PX121 design from ULSTEIN. All four are scheduled for delivery in 2013. “The investment company Blue Ship Invest received its first vessel, ‘
UK: BP Hires Byford Dolphin Rig for USD 378 Million
Fred. Olsen Energy ASA’s subsidiary Dolphin Drilling Ltd. has entered into a 3-year contract with UKsBP for the use of the semi-submersible drilling rig Byford Dolphin for drilling operations in the UK North Sea. The new contract will start in direct continuation with the current contract. The estim
GSP Saturn Rig Spuds Its First North Sea Well (The Netherlands)
GSP Offshore, a company based in Romania, announced that its GSP Saturn jack-up rig on Tuesday began the drilling operations in the Dutch Sector of the North Sea under the contract with Wintershall Noordzee B.V. GSP Saturn will operate under the current contract, signed in March 2012, for an initial
Statoil to Deliver LNG to Petronas (Malaysia)
Statoil increases its efforts relating to supply of gas to the Asian market, and has for the first time entered into an agreement for long-term LNG deliveries in that region. This week Statoil signed an agreement to deliver LNG to Petronas at their LNG import terminal in Malaka. “We have had a very
UK: Ocean Scout Leaves Oil for Wind
Atlantic Offshore’s Aberdeen division has sold its oldest vessel, the Ocean Scout. Ocean Scout is a platform supply vessel of UT 706 design, built in 1976. The vessel, of 67.80 m length, has been delivered to its new owners. It will exit the offshore supply market and enter the offshore wind industr
CGGVeritas, Saudi Aramco Ink MOU for R&D Cooperation
CGGVeritas announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saudi Aramco for collaborative research and development of geophysical acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation technologies. The MOU creates a framework for Saudi Aramco and CGGVeritas to identify opp
Aker Solutions to Provide Well Intervention Services to Statoil (Norway)
Aker Solutions has been awarded two contracts from Island Offshore to provide well intervention services for Statoil in the North Sea. Scope of work is to deliver downhole well intervention services from Island Offshore’s two riserless well intervention vessels Island Frontier and Island Wellserver.
BP Gets Consent to Drill Well in Norwegian Sea
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted BP Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6507/3-9 S in Norwegian Sea. Well 6507/3-9 S will be drilled from the Polar Pioneer drilling facility at position 65°56` 44.28″ north and 7°41´ 32.83″ east. The drilling programme for wellbore 6507/3-9 S pertains
Dolphin Secures Cash for Bolette Dolphin Drillship (Norway)
Dolphin International AS, a subsidiary of Norway’s Fred. Olsen Energy ASA , has signed a new five year bank credit facility of up to $1.5 billion. The company will use the money to prepay existing bank loans, full-finance the newbuild Bolette Dolphin drillship and for general corporate purposes. The
Nexans to Supply Umbilicals for Gullfaks C Platform (Norway)
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has secured a 16 million Euro contract with Statoil to engineer and supply a 16.5km subsea power umbilical that will be used to connect the Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea to its subsea compression and processing equipment. The Gullfaks