Fossil Energy
Petrobras records biggest ever daily output in pre-salt areas
Brazil’s Petrobras has announced that its consolidated oil and gas production, in Brazil and abroad, rose 0.8% from August’s production of 2,759 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) to 2,781 thousand boed in September. Oil production in Brazil rose 0.6 percent from August Petrobras’s oi
Japex expands North Sea portfolio
Japan’s Japex is increasing its UK North Sea presence through another acquisition of interest in Apache’s offshore blocks. To remind, in March 2014, JAPEX UK E&P LIMITED, wholly owned by Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (“JAPEX”), executed a farm-out agreement with Apache North Sea Limited to a
Soco discovers oil offshore Congo
Soco International has made an oil discovery offshore the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). The discovery was made at the Lidongo X Marine-101 (“LXM-101”) well in the Congo basin. The LXM-101 well is located in the Marine XI Block, 23 kilometres north west of Pointe Noire in a water depth of approxim
Trelleborg’s offshore solutions at OTD 2014 (Norway)
Trelleborg will present an extended range of offshore solutions, including its recently re-branded portfolio of thermal insulation materials, subsea seals and LNG hoses, at the Offshore Technology Days (OTD) 2014 in Bergen, Norway. Trelleborg’s offshore operation, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions and Tr
Det norske acquires Marathon Oil Norge
Norway’s Det norske oljeselskap ASA has finalised the acquisition of Marathon Oil Norge AS. After the integration Det norske becomes a large and robust E&P company with activities within exploration, development and production. In 2013, combined production from the two companies amounted to approxim
EMAS completes work offshore Gabon
Ezra Holdings’ Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, recently completed a US$120 million project for VAALCO Gabon (Etame) Inc. offshore Gabon in West Africa. The company used the new build Lewek Constellation on her inaugural installation project. The work scope included the transportation and install
BP opts to use AGSL software on Quad 204
Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd (AGSL), which specialises in protecting companies’ process critical software assets, has announced that its software management platform Asset Guardian has been chosen by BP to manage the process control software used to operate Quad 204. Quad 204 is a field redevelopmen
WHL encouraged by Seychelles data
Australian energy company WHL Energy Limited has received the initial “fast-track” data volume from the Junon 3D seismic survey acquired offshore the Seychelles by the Ophir Energy/WHL Energy JV in July 2014. This poststack migration volume is an intermediate product in the Pre-Stack Time Migration
Innovations in Wind Farm Installations at OWIM Conference 2014
The Offshore WIND Installation and Maintenance Conference takes place on 29 October in Amsterdam. This educational day provides an overview of wind farm developments, innovations in wind farm installation and maintenance and discusses the challenges of grid integration. The conference addresses the
Statoil gets green light for Saturn well
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7227/10-1, in the production licence 230, in the Barents Sea. The 7227/10-1 wildcat well will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig. The name of the prospect is “Saturn”
Barge Master system on Wagenborg’s Walk-to-Work vessel
Barge Master is nearing the completion of the construction of the first BM-T40 system. On the 14th of October the Barge Master motion compensated knuckle boom crane pedestal was installed on the new Wagenborg Walk-to-Work vessel, designed and built by Royal Niestern Sander. The vessel and Barge Mast
Staying the same is not good enough, OPITO says
At the fifth annual OPITO Safety and Competence Conference (OSCC 2014), the chief executive of safety standards body, OPITO, will warn the industry that staying the same is simply not good enough and more effective leadership is required to drive a step-change in safety across the global oil and gas
ROVOP invests in new HQ
Subsea specialist ROVOP has revealed that it is investing more than £4 million in a new purpose-built headquarters (HQ) including training facilities, a full ROV underwater test facility and an internal 40-tonne overhead crane. The new facility at Aberdeenshire’s Westhill area – known as the subsea
Heerema to build Culzean jacket
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited, operator of the Culzean development in the North Sea, has awarded a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the project’s well head platform (WHP) jacket to Heerema Hartlepool Limited. Heerema will build the WHP jacket and piles, the well