McDermott International, Inc. was recently awarded a significant subsea contract for executing a deepwater engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation and commissioning project offshore Malaysia. The value of this contract is included in McDermott’s first quarter 2012 backlo
Transocean Barents anchored up at the Jette field Friday May 4th, and has begun the first phase of drilling. The first operation will be a observation well at Jette north. Drilling of the two planned production wells will be next. Transocean Barents will remain at the Jette Field until August. The J
AGR has acquired an 80% shareholding in Steinsvik & Co AS. Headquartered in Stavanger, Steinsvik & Co supplies safety professionals, including safety coaches and internal control officers (ICO), to drilling rigs in the Norwegian market. The firm also provides HSE training for oil companies and perfo
Dana Ourso has joined InterMoor Inc., an Acteon company, as human resources manager in the company’s Morgan City, La., office. His responsibilities include planning, directing and coordinating InterMoor’s human resource management to maximize the strategic use of human resources and maintain employe
China’s CNOOC has begun deepwater drilling operation in South China Sea using the CNOOC 981 deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig. The rig, owned by CNOOC, is the first and only deepwater drilling rig designed and built in China. It has a maximum operating water depth of 3,000 meters and is capabl
Within the frame of its work at the Draugen field, Ocean Installer has awards an EPC manifold contract to EAB Engineering (EAB).
Rialto, an oil and gas exploration and production company, has appointed Simon Zoller as Corporate Drilling Manager for the Company to manage its current exploration programme offshore Côte d’Ivoire. Zoller will be responsible for the 3 well drilling programme in Block CI 202, Côte d’Ivoire – which
Faroe Petroleum has announced that Centrica has begun drilling on the Cooper prospect in PL477 in the Norwegian Sea. The exploration well will target the Cooper prospect located in PL477 in block 6506/11 on the Halten Terrace between the Smørbukk oil field, immediately to the east, and the Morvin oi
Cairn, an Edinburgh-based private exploration and production company, has today completed the acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS (“Agora”) for a total consideration of approximately USD 453 million. Agora which is now a part of Cairn Group companies, is a Norwegian firm with non-operated exploration,
GE Energy announces that it is investing $10 million in the development of a new Oil & Gas Training Facility to support and advance training and development for its customers and employees. Training at the facility will focus on customer, technical and leadership skills aimed to meet the changing ne
Swedish operator, Lundin Petroleum, has started drilling operations at exploration well 6201/11-3 in PL519 in Norway’s part of the North Sea. The well will target the Albert prospect, which is situated 65 km northwest of the Snorre Field in the northern North Sea. The main objective of well 6201/11-
Mediterranean Oil & Gas Plc announces that the Italian Ministry for Economic Development has granted a three year extension until 5 May 2015 to the exploration permit BR269 GC The Ombrina Mare oil and gas field is located in permit BR269 GC, which is offshore Central Adriatic. Bill Higgs, Chief Exec
Spring Energy will operate PL 550 & PL 551 with 80 % interest, and the PL 551 license is targeting to drill a well in 2013.
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) has been awarded a contract by Saipem S.p.A. to provide float-over and installation services to Saipem for the 8,000 tonnes CMMP Platform in the Persian Gulf, off-shore Iraq. Saipem has contracted the new 50,000DWT semi-submersible vessel FINESSE for the transpor
