KBR Inc, an American engineering, procurement, and construction company, has appointed Jay Ibrahim to serve as President of Engineering and Construction, Middle East and North Africa (MENA). According to KBR, Ibrahim has 21 years of experience in the Middle East Region, having served in a variety of
Dubai’s Drydocks World has won a contract Orwell Offshore to fabricate an external Turret for FPSO Layang. The project is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2016. According to Drydocks World, the external turret for Orwell Offshore will deliver significant improvements in operation
Lamprell, UAE based provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services to the oil and gas industry, has announced that Peter Whitbread will be retiring. The company said that Whitbread, who is an ex-CEO and a non-executive director, will be retiring with immediate effect and that he will
Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco has awarded Australian company WorleyParsons a contract to provide project management services for its offshore program. According to the press release issued by WorleyParsons, under the new six-year contract, the company will provide project management and eng
Dear readers, as every week, we’re bringing you a list of the most popular stories on Offshore Energy Today. Unsurprisingly, the most popular story was the one on a fatal accident offshore Mexico, in which two workers died after a jack-up rig tilted due to a fault in one of its legs. The second most
Qatar Petroleum (QP), Qatar’s state-run oil and gas company, has issued invitations to a international oil & gas companies to compete for the future operation and development the country’s largest offshore oil field Al-Shaheen, starting in mid-2017. The date marks the expiration of QP’s existing Al-
Baker Hughes has said today that the worldwide rig count for April 2015 was 2,268, down 289 from the 2,557 counted in March 2015, and down 1,120 from the 3,388 counted in April 2014. This includes both onshore and offshore rigs in the U.S. and internationally. The international rig count for April 2
Dutch company Ampelmann, focused on the development, construction and lease of offshore access solutions, has opened office in Houston. Delft headquartered company dealing with motion compensated access solutions, said that opening a new office represents the next step in the expansion of the compan
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) has approved a CEO succession plan and promoted Vicki A. Hollub to Senior Executive Vice President of Occidental and President – Oxy Oil and Gas, responsible for operations in the United States, Middle East region and Latin America. Hollub has served as Executi
Iranian Petroleum Ministry’s spokesman Akbar Nematollahi has revealed that more than 1800 Iranian and foreign companies will participate in the 20th International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition (Iranian Oil Show 2015), which opens in Tehran today. According to information shared thr
Ensco plc has entered into a three-year contract with NDC for a new premium jackup, ENSCO 110. This newbuild rig is scheduled to begin operations later this month offshore United Arab Emirates at a rate of approximately $114,000 per day. NDC has also contracted ENSCO 104 for a three-year term at a d
The oil & gas industry currently suffers a shortage of mid-career professionals primed for leadership & supervisory roles, the legacy of the last oil price downturn in the 1980s to mid-90s, Douglas Westwood, an energy industry intellignce group, writes in its DW Monday report. At that time the ind
McDermott International, Inc. has received a large contract amendment from Al-Khafji Joint Operations (KJO) for a platform in the Hout field, located 26 miles east of Al-Khafji in the divided zone between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. According to the press release, the work on the brownfi
Saudi Aramco has appointed Amin H. Nasser as the acting President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Amin H. Nasser is a member of the Board of Directors of Saudi Aramco and he held the position of Senior Vice President, Upstream since 2008. Nasser joined Saudi Aramco after graduating with
