Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that its wholly owned Norwegian subsidiary, Oceaneering AS, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AGR Field Operations (AGR FO) from AGR Group ASA and FieldCo Invest AS. AGR FO, headquartered in Bergen, Norway, is a provider of inspection, maint
Chevron Corporation has issued an estimate of total oil volume from ocean floor seep lines near its Frade Field, offshore Brazil Chevron said it believed that approximately 2,400 barrels of oil have been emitted to date since seeps were first detected on November 9. The company noted that this estim
Cougar Helicopter was, on Monday afternoon, grounded on the heli deck of Transocean owned, Henry Goodrich semi submersible rig due to potential hydraulic liquid leak, C-NLOPB said in its incident bulletin. The issue was discovered during routine checks by the crew of the helicopter, offshore Canada.
The giant Pazflor development, located some 150 kilometres offshore Luanda,Angola, was inaugurated today at a ceremony attended by José Botelho de Vasconcelos, Angola’s Minister of Petroleum, Manuel Vicente, Chairman and CEO of Sonangol, Christophe de Margerie, Chairman and CEO of Total, Yves-Louis
Expro, an international oilfield services provider, has achieved the Shell Goal Zero award for 1,980 days with no recordable incidents as of July 31, 2011 for its Malaysian operations. The award is given to the service provider at every 180-day period when the period is achieved without having any r
Asia still needs international oil companies to continue to play a large and essential role in the oil and gas industry’s research and development activity, despite the rise of national oil companies, a group of the region’s oil and gas industry leaders has stated during the round table discussion e
Chinese National Petroleum Cooperation (CNPC) subsidiary, BGP, has chosen Marlink as its provider of VSAT satellite communications for its fleet of state-of-the-art seismic vessels. BGP Prospector, the most recent vessel to join the fleet is equipped with Marlink’s Sealink™ C-Band, SCPC VSAT. The BG
Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Myklebusthaug Offshore, Norway, on the building of a new multipurpose offshore service vessel. The vessel is to be built at Kleven Yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway. This will be the first vessel to include ABB’s Onboard DC Grid system which leads to significantly
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said today that Turkey has reached agreement with Dutch oil giant Shell, for the exploration in Gulf of Antalya. Turkey also plans to announce a tender for hydrocarbon exploration in Gulf of Mersin and Iskenderun, and many major oil companies such as Statoil, Pet
Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, has completed coring operations at sidetrack well 14/10-9z. The sidetrack was drilled to a total depth of 2600m md. A total 60m of core was cut through Casper and Sea Lion bringing the total amount of core cut dur
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd announced today that it has entered into agreement with Noble Energy Inc, Delek Group Ltd and Isramco Inc to develop Israel’s Tamar offshore natural gas field. Daewoo will immediately begin with an LNG-FPSO feasibility study, and a final
Iran plans to invest up to $35 million to build its very first oil spill recovery vessel, Zawya reported. The vessel, which will be one of the biggest of its kind in the Middle East is expected to bear the responsibility of dealing with any oil spillage and pollution in the Persian Gulf. Iran Shipbu
Cyprus President Demetris Christofias yesterday paid a visit to an offshore drilling rig searching for gas south of the Mediterranean island, Reuters reports. Noble Corporation started with exploration drilling in September and this was Christofias’ first visit to the drilling site. “My presence her
ConocoPhillips yesterday announced announced several future appointments to the management teams of the two energy companies that will be created when ConocoPhillips completes its strategic repositioning, expected in the second quarter of 2012. The new ConocoPhillips will be an independent, pure-pla
