South Korea’s shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) has secured a new order for two Cat-D semi-submersible rigs from Norway based Songa Offshore. The contract signing ceremony was held during the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held in Houston, U.S.A on 3rd May. The val
Vietnam’s PTSC M&C yesterday (May 14), at its yard in Vung Tau City, hosted a load-out and sail-away ceremony for the Su Tu Trang (White Lion) jacket and topside, built for Cuu Long JOC. Su Tu Trang is a turn-key project awarded to PTSC M&C in March 2010. The scope of work includes Engineering, [&he
Wärtsilä Hamworthy, the global leader in environmental and liquid cargo handling solutions for the marine and oil & gas markets, has won a contract to supply its Flare Gas Recovery packages to four floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units under construction for Petrobras. The units,
PSA Norway, the government’s body responsible for safety, emergency preparedness and the working environment in the petroleum activities in Norway, has granted Saipem an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the Scarabeo offshore drilling rig. Scarabeo 8 is a semi-submersible drilling rig with a M
Rialto Energy Limited an oil and gas exploration and production company, has discovered hydrocabons at its Gazelle-P3 ST well offshore Côte d’Ivoire. The well has been drilled to a depth of 3161m MDRT (2584m TVDSS). The well has encountered encouraging oil and gas shows, which will be evaluated by w
Origin Energy, an Australian integrated energy company focused on gas and oil exploration and production, advises that the Thistle 1 exploration well, which spudded on 03:30 hours EDT on Thursday 19 April 2012, has reached a total depth of 2,265mRT. The well is being drilled using the semi-submersib
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation today announced the Golfinho exploration well discovered a new, major natural gas accumulation nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of its Prosperidade complex within the Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin. The Golfinho discovery well encountered more than 193 ne
BP has signed two production sharing contracts with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The two deep water exploration blocks are located approximately 300 kilometres from the North East coast of Trinidad. BP was awarded blocks 23(a) and TTDAA 14 in the 2010/2011 deepwater competi
Brazil’s OGX has presented to the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) a Declaration of Commerciality of a portion of the Waimea Complex, for which the proposed new designation is Tubarão Azul Field, in block BM-C-41, in the shallow waters of the Campos Basin. OGX, the Brazilian
FMC Technologies, Inc., a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry announced today that it has signed an agreement with Technip France, on behalf of the Technip Samsung Consortium (TSC), to supply offshore loading arm systems as part of the Shell Prelude Floating Liquefied Nat
Chevron Corporation has signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Tohoku Electric Power Company Incorporated (Tohoku) for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone natural gas project in Australia. Under the agreement, Chevron, together with Apache Ene
Thanks to monitoring systems from KONGSBERG, underwater operations can be more environment-friendly. The need for environment-friendly maritime operations is highlighted at Expo 2012. More stringent environmental standards Owing to increasing pressures on ocean territories, ever more stringent envir
International oil and gas exploration and production giant Statoil has reached an agreement to use Seadrill’s West Aquarius deepwater drilling rig for its 2012-2013 exploration activities offshore Newfoundland, Canada. “We have ambitious exploration targets offshore Newfoundland, and securing rig ca
The Australian Government has today announced the 2012 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release comprising 27 areas across nine basins in Commonwealth waters off Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Announcing the release at the annual APPEA confer
