ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, an international offshore oil and gas development and production company with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea, 0n June 1, 2012, announced that Matt McCarroll replaced T. Paul Bulmahn as Chief Executive Officer of the company. However,
Brazil’s state controlled oil company, Petrobras, has announced the discovery of good quality oil in the third well drilled in the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster’s Sul de Guará region. According to the Rights Transfer contract, Petrobras is entitled to produce up to 319 million barrels of oil equival
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway conducted an audit of stability, ballasting and offloading of the Heidrun oil platform. The audit activity was conducted at Statoil’s offices in Stjørdal, with the objective of ensuring that the systems for stability, ballasting and offloading of the Heidrun fac
In a celebration at the Traders Hotel last night, Datuk (Dr) Abdul Rahim Hashim, President, International Gas Union (IGU), 2009-2012 Triennium, officially handed over the IGU Presidency for the 2012-2015 Triennium on behalf of Malaysia, to IGU Vice President and Senior Vice-President of TOTAL, Franc
Renaissance Services has announced the appointment of René Kofod-Olsen as CEO for Topaz Energy & Marine (Topaz). Mr. Kofod-Olsen’s career spans 18 years in the marine industry with the A.P. Møller-Maersk Group (APMM), including a period as Chief People Officer of SVITZER, responsible for the global
Malaysia’s Petronas announced today the appointment of Datuk Mohd Anuar as the VP and CEO of development and production. In this position, he will head the upstream development and production division of Petronas in Malaysia as well as in 23 countries worldwide. Datuk Mohd Anuar is a well engineer b
Mechanical engineering group EnerMech has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to manage the UK North Sea offshore crane assets of Talisman Energy (UK) Limited. The five-year contract, with two additional one year options, is the Aberdeen-based mechanical engineering group’s largest single co
Qatar’s Halul Offshore has ordered four offshore vessels from India’s L&T Shipbuilding. The order for two platform supply vessels and two Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels is valued at approximately USD 87 million. The Indian shipyard said that the orders were secured against stiff internati
Market trends and very good feedback from the first ship in operation triggers Blue Ship Invest to contract another four platform supply vessels (PSVs) of the PX121 design from ULSTEIN. All four are scheduled for delivery in 2013. “The investment company Blue Ship Invest received its first vessel, ‘
Fred. Olsen Energy ASA’s subsidiary Dolphin Drilling Ltd. has entered into a 3-year contract with UKsBP for the use of the semi-submersible drilling rig Byford Dolphin for drilling operations in the UK North Sea. The new contract will start in direct continuation with the current contract. The estim
GSP Offshore, a company based in Romania, announced that its GSP Saturn jack-up rig on Tuesday began the drilling operations in the Dutch Sector of the North Sea under the contract with Wintershall Noordzee B.V. GSP Saturn will operate under the current contract, signed in March 2012, for an initial
International oil major Shell will invest approximately $20 billion in Masela offshore block, located the Arafura Sea, Indonesia. According to Reuters, Indonesia’s Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said yesterday that Shell would gradually invest $20 billion between 2013 and 2019. In December, 20
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd advises that at 06:00 hours (WST) today, ConocoPhillips was completing pressure testing and pre-deployment checks of the blowout preventers on surface, at Boreas-1 well, offshore Australia. Since the last report, the BOPs and marine riser were run to the sea floor, and after
Statoil increases its efforts relating to supply of gas to the Asian market, and has for the first time entered into an agreement for long-term LNG deliveries in that region. This week Statoil signed an agreement to deliver LNG to Petronas at their LNG import terminal in Malaka. “We have had a very
