Irish Government Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has informed that subsea rock dumping operations will be carried out along the Corrib offshore field pipeline in mid October. Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel, Tertnes, will be used for the operations which should take 6-10 days to be co
Robert Kleiburg, Chief Operating Officer of the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) will give a key note speech on the importance of natural gas in energy transition on 23 October as part of the official opening of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference. In a recent article published by
BP today announced the successful start-up of the Devenick gas project in the central North Sea. The Devenick project is a subsea tie-back to Marathon Oil’s East Brae platform and provides an important new source of domestic gas for the UK. Trevor Garlick, Regional President for BP’s North Sea busin
Romania’s Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) has been awarded a new contract in the UK North Sea, to be performed by GSP Falcon, the DNV class pipelay vessel. The operations under the new contract with Perenco are scheduled to start in mid October 2012 and involve all engineering, procurement installati
Providence Resources an Irish based offshore oil and gas exploration and production company, has been awarded a Foreshore Licence (“Licence”) over an area in the Kish Bank Basin, offshore Dublin. The Licence was awarded by the Foreshore Unit of the Irish Department of Environment, Community and Loca
Oil & Gas UK’s economics director, Mike Tholen, yesterday (3 October) told a London audience of over 150 that recent changes to the UK oil and gas tax regime will promote investment to the benefit of British jobs, oil and gas production and tax revenues. He was speaking at an Oil & Gas UK breakfast
Deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is experiencing a strong resurgence of Exploration and Production (E&P) activity and is well on its way towards reaching a “new equilibrium” in 2013 according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest upstream outlook. Huge exploration success in the deepwater GoM over the 10 years p
Production from Statoil-operated Snorre A tension leg platform was shut last night after a gas alarm on board the facility went off, Reuters reports. A Norwegian oil giant’s spokesperson informed Reuters that the platform, located in the Norwegian part of the North Sea was undergoing a partial resta
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has agreed to invest $10 million in PT Wintermar Offshore Marine Tbk, to help expand the company’s fleet of support vessels serving the exploration and development of Indonesia’s offshore oil and gas fields and thereby helping the country meet its energy needs.
Coastal Energy Company has signed a contract with Atwood Oceanics, Inc. for the Manta jackup rig for its operations in the Gulf of Thailand and offshore Malaysia. Under the contract, Coastal will pay a $145,000 day rate over the 12 month firm period. The rig is expected to be delivered to Coastal by
Chevron Corporation announced that Dr. Alice P. Gast has been elected to Chevron’s board of directors and will serve on the company’s Audit Committee. John Watson, chairman, Chevron Corporation said, “Dr. Gast has tremendous technical and industry expertise that will be a valuable addition to our bo
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
Engineering and project services company Clough Limited today announced that Rick Robinson has commenced as Executive Vice President, Projects. Robinson brings in more than 35 years of international engineering, procurement and project execution experience for large energy and resource projects to t
Apache Corporation reported that its Gulf of Mexico production facilities are back online following suspended operations due to Hurricane Isaac. Also, production from North Sea assets has recovered following maintenance activities completed during the third quarter. As the company enters its fourth
