Environmental waste management contractor TWMA has been awarded a £4million contract extension by TOTAL E&P UK Limited for continued drilling-waste management services in the UK North Sea. The Aberdeen-headquartered firm has been contracted for a further two years to process and handle drill cutting
Dolphin Drilling AS, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA , has entered into a Letter of Award for the provision of the semi-submersible drilling rig Bredford Dolphin with Lundin Norway AS for operation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract is for a six well drilling program with an est
Farstad Shipping achieved an operating income of NOK 801.0 million (USD 144.65 million) for the 1st quarter. The operating profit (EBIT) was NOK 142.8 million (USD 25.78 million). The profit after taxes was NOK 90.4 million (USD 16.32 million). Contract coverage The contract coverage of the Farstad
Korean Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Grenland Group for delivery of detailed engineering and fabrication services for the topside on Statoil’s wellhead platform Valemon. The project will start up immediately and will be completed in February 2014.The contract value
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces that the J03 well on the Jacky field (“the well”) has been suspended having encountered a smaller than anticipated oil column in the Beatrice ‘A’ Sand reservoir. Given the result of the well, technical work is ongoing to determine whether to re-enter the well and complet
Following his notice to the Group Board, Rob Strijland (1949) will retire as Chief Operating Officer effective June 1, 2011, Dockwise announced. Apart from the fact that Mr. Strijland wishes to develop other interests in the maritime industry, he will continue to assist Dockwise in a consulting capa
Lundin Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), operator of PL338, has completed the sidetrack well 16/1-15A on the Tellus prospect. The objective of well 16/1-15A was to further appraise the Tellus discovery located in Block PL338. The well proved a 50 meter o
Sterling Resources Ltd. (“Sterling” or the “Company”) announces the completion of drilling of the 210/30a-4Y well on Block 210/30a in the United Kingdom North Sea. This is the third well (second side-track) drilled in the current four well campaign to further appraise the extent of the Cladhan reser
SeaBird Exploration PLC (‘SeaBird” or “SBX”), the market leader in deepwater node seismic and high end 2D acquisition,announces the signing of a Frame Agreement with Spectrum ASA (“SPU”) for the acquisition of 2D seismic data to a minimum value of USD 23 million over a period of 36 months, and a Re-
AGR Petroleum Services, Aberdeen, U.K., has reported it will undertake a multi-well, multiclient drilling campaign valued at £3 million on behalf of three international operators, utilizing the semisubmersible drilling rig WilPhoenix. The largest independent well management firm will drill four well
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Bui Dinh Dinh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Russia. The meeting participants shared the opinion that relationship
Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, confirms that its Training Services business has acquired the trade, assets and people of SkillsXP, from Dutch company Tritanium, for an initial cash consideration of €1 million. A further cash consideration of up to €0.5 million is
Pipeline engineering specialist, STATS Group, has completed a six-figure valued pipework maintenance contract on behalf of Dolphin Energy in Qatar. STATS carried out the planned maintenance on a 36” gas pipeline onboard the DOL-2 platform in the North Field, the world’s largest single gas field, loc
At the Norshipping exhibition (24-27 May, Oslo) Imtech Marine will launch its modular and flexible concept “Multiflex”. On the basis of this concept, Imtech Marine works closely with ship owners and builders and offers them a system independent expert advice and selection from a wide range of techno
