Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors (Heerema) announce today that they have signed a worldwide alliance agreement where the two companies will combine their capabilities to help their clients best address the fast growing subsea ultra-deepwater market. Ultra-deepwater projects are expected to be
As the new General Manager, starting in November Maximillian Fellner will be in charge of the operations of RWE Dea Egypt in Cairo. Fellner, a petroleum engineer, has been responsible since 2008 as General Manager for the Suez Oil Company (SUCO), the joint venture of RWE Dea and the Egyptian General
His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saudi Aramco, on Oct. 16 led board members on a tour of some of the Company’s mega projects. HE Naimi and Saudi Aramco Board members including Khalid A. Al-Falih, president and
On October 15, 2012, Take-or-Pay agreement for the supply of natural gas over either 16 years or up until the contracted quantity has been utilized, was signed by the Tamar Partners with Dorad Energy Ltd. to supply up to a total approximate quantity of 11.2BCM. Dorad will have an option to extend th
Sky Petroleum, Inc., an oil and gas company with activities in Albania and Mubarek field, offshore United Arab Emirates, has appointed Jaloul Ayed to its Advisory Board. Jaloul Ayed was appointed Minister of Finance of Tunisia in January 2011 and served in the two interim governments that were forme
RigNet, Inc. has been chosen by an undisclosed drilling services provider active in Qatar to deliver managed network solutions for one additional offshore accommodation jack-up drilling rig and two additional land drilling rigs in the company’s fleet. These services have been added to an existing fi
Gulf Drilling International Limited (Q.S.C.) (“GDI”) has been awarded a two year contract by Occidental Petroleum of Qatar Ltd. (“Oxy Qatar”) for its Al-Wajba (Gulf-3) Drilling Rig. The rig has been working for Oxy Qatar since 2008. Under the new contract the Al-Wajba will be support of Oxy Qatar’s
An Iranian official has said that the country’s offshore oil and gas platforms in the Persian Gulf have been attacked by hackers. He explained that the facilities’ communication systems have been targeted for the past two weeks, but added that the cyber attacks have been repelled successfully. Moham
M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company, yesterday announced the release of the RHADIANT† ultra-high temperature non-aqueous drilling fluid system. This system eliminates drilling fluid product degradation, prevents wellbore control issues such as barite sag and provides a thin filter cake for enhanced lo
Schlumberger on Friday introduced the Saturn 3D radial probe as the newest module for the MDT modular formation dynamics tester. With the Saturn probe, customers can now obtain pressure measurements and fluid samples where they were not previously possible due to reservoir conditions. “Customers exp
Transas Offshore and Dynamic Positioning simulator has been installed at PanArab E-Navigation (PAEN) in Alexandria, Egypt. PanArab E-Nav is a key player in the marine and offshore training in the entire region. Transas Offshore and DP training solution is based on the navigational simulator platform
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, announces that Nigel McCue is standing down as Chief Executive and as a director of the Company. Peter Whitbread, former Chief Executive who was wit
Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast that between 2013 and 2017 $91bn will be spent on floating production systems (FPS) – an increase of 100% over the preceding five-year period. This growth is driven by factors such as a larger proportion of newbuilds and conversions compared to redeployments, a greater
Tamar production platform has left the Keiwit Shipyards in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, and is now on the way to its location offshore Israel, according to Globes, the Israeli financial newspaper. It took 18 months for the 280 m platform to be completed, and the project has been described as “the lar
