A fire broke out on an offshore platform in Egypt today, spurring a crew evacuation, Aswat Masriya, an Egyptian news website has reported. The news website, citing sources in the country’s petroleum ministry, has said that the fire has been localized and isolated from the rest of the rig. The fire r
The most popular article during the week of March 16 – 22, 2015 was about Transocean sending more rigs to the scrapyard. The rig decommissioning story was followed by a piece on an incident in the UK North sea, where a supply vessel crashed into a platform. You also read about Chevron’s giant Big Fo
Drydocks in February berthed 9 rigs in its Dubai yard. The number has risen now
Delek Group has informed that further to the Letter of Intent signed in October 2014, Tamar Project partners (Noble Energy and Delek Group) have signed a contract for the export of natural gas from the Tamar gas field, off Israel, to Dolphinus Holdings Limited. The volume of natural gas that will be
The biggest phase of the South Pars field, Phase 12, officially launched operation before the end of the current Iranian year (March 20) in a ceremony in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani and his delegation. Inaugurating the phase 12 of South Pars gas field, Oil Minister argued: “This phase i
KBR, Inc. has been awarded a project management contract by Saudi Aramco to provide project management services for Saudi Aramco’s offshore program. Under the terms of this six-year contract, KBR will provide project management and engineering services for existing and new offshore facilities to mai
Maersk Training, part of the Denmark-based Maersk Group and a provider of specialist training and learning courses in the energy and maritime sectors, has announced its decision to set up its first training facility in the Middle East at Dubai World Central (‘DWC’). According to the press release, t
The global offshore accommodation market has seen significant growth over the past five years, with PoB requirements increasing by 27% between 2009 and 2014, Douglas Westwood, an energy industry intelligence group, writes in its “DW Monday” report. Although the recent oil price decline has negativel
The article that you have read the most during this past week was about a jack-up drilling rig, but not just any old jack-up rig, this one was the first ever to drill an offshore well in the UK North Sea. You have also read about a worker that died in an accident on Saturday morning […]
Two new jack-up barges ordered by the National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), based in the United Arab Emirates, will feature fully integrated Wärtsilä power generation and electrical and automation (E&A) solutions. The SEP 650 and SEP 750 vessels are being built at the Shanghai Zhenhua Heav
Delek Group and the partners in the Leviathan project, off Israel, announced that on March 10, 2015, Palestine Power Generation Company PLC (PPGC) gave a conditioned cancellation notice to the Leviathan partners on the supply agreement. The agreement was for the supply of natural gas from the Leviat
Malaysian offshore support vessels builder Nam Cheong has received orders for two vessels worth approximately US$58 million to two repeat customers. A 200-men Accommodation Work Vessel (“AWV”) has been ordered by a subsidiary of a repeat customer, SGX Mainboard listed Marco Polo Marine Ltd (“MPML”)
Drydocks World has been awarded the contract from Kvaerner to carry out the fabrication of components on the Johan Sverdrup Riser Platform Jacket for end-user Statoil, to be located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Kvaerner won contract from Statoil in January and Drydocks World will carry
The most read article at Offshore Energy Today this past week was the one on BW Offshore recovering bodies of three Brazilian workers who went missing after an explosion on an FPSO in Brazil, on February 11, 2014. The final death toll from this incident stands at nine. The second most popular articl
