The largest jacket ever designed and fabricated at Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) ready for installation at Statoil operated gas field offshore Norway
Statoil is initiating an internal investigation following a gas leak on the Heimdal platform in the North Sea on Saturday 26 May. The incident will also be investigated by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. The gas leak occurred during the testing of emergency shutdown valves. Due to shutdown fo
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd (JAPEX) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have announced that Kangean Energy Indonesia Ltd. (Operator), has started commercial production on 26th May 2012 in the Terang gas field. Terang gas field (located offshore, East Java, Republic of Indonesia) is the core proj
Augean plc, one of the UK’s market leaders in the management of hazardous waste, has signed a joint venture agreement with Scomi Oiltools (Europe) Limited (“Scomi”) to take a controlling stake in a new company formed from the existing operational assets of Scomi in the UK. Highlights A new company,
Bayfield Energy Holdings plc, an upstream oil and gas exploration and production company announces that the well EG7, located in the offshore Galeota Licence Area in Trinidad and Tobago, has been sidetracked to a total depth of 7,090 (6,678ft TVD). Some thin hydrocarbon bearing sandstones were logge
In the 1st Indonesian International Bid Round 2012, Eni has been awarded the East Sepinggan block with a 100% participating interest. The block, located in the offshore East Kalimantan, about 170 kilometers south east of the Bontang LNG processing facility, covers an area of 2,913 square kilometers
Nord Stream started today the first of two all-important underwater tie-ins of its second gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. In this complex two-week-long offshore operation, two of the pipeline’s three sections will be joined together 80 metres underwater inside a hyperbaric welding habitat on th
BP Exploration Operating Company Limited (‘BP’) has extended the contract duration for the use of Safe Caledonia accommodation rig at the Andrew Area Development Project in the UK sector of the North Sea. The revised contract period incorporates operations at the Magnus platform and extends the cont
Bergen Group Dreggen has been awarded a new contract with the EPC contractor Techint Engenharia e Construção SA in Brazil. The contract has an estimated value of NOK 60-70 million, and comprises delivery of a total of 4 offshore lattice boom cranes for two fixed wellhead platforms being constructed
Norway’s Havyard Group group has once again signed a contract for delivery of a PSV vessel to Global Offshore with option for one further delivery. Since 2005 contracts to the value of NOK 2 billion have been signed with the Indian shipping company. This will become offshore vessel number 7 and 8 fr
Statoil has received consent from PSA Norway to remove the Troll Oseberg Gas Injection (TOGI) template from the seabed and transport it onshore for scrapping and recycling. The TOGI facility is part of production licence 085 and is located south of Troll Øst in block 31/6. The consent relates to rem
Xcite Energy has announced that the 9/3b-7 well at its Bentley field, offshore UK, has reached target depth of 9,377 feet (measured depth). A reservoir section in excess of 2,200 feet has been penetrated, with 100% net pay, and sand screens have been run successfully. The remainder of the planned op
Origin Energy Limited (Origin), on behalf of the VIC/L23 Joint Venture, announces that drilling of the Geographe 2 development well in Victoria’s Otway Basin, offshore Australia, started at 00.30hrs on Tuesday 29 May 2012. Geographe 2 is one of two wells being drilled by Origin on behalf of the join
Subsea mooring connector specialist, First Subsea, has successfully completed the mooring of the PSVM (Plutao, Saturno, Venus and Marte) FPSO in 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) of water, in the BP Block 31 ultra deepwater development, offshore Angola. The external turret-moored FPSO has 12 mooring lines,
