Project & Tenders
Wintershall eyes first half of 2018 for Maria start-up
Wintershall is working to enable the start of oil production from the Maria field offshore Norway in the first half of next year. Wintershall said on Tuesday that the Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Søviknes, and Wintershall CEO, Mario Mehren, visited the Deepsea Stavanger rig in t
Eni to deliver 180 LNG cargoes to Pakistan
The Italian energy company Eni won a 15-year contract to supply one cargo of liquefied natural gas per month to the state-owned Pakistan LNG.
Ophir spuds exploration well off Ivory Coast
Ophir Energy started drilling the Ayamé-1X exploration well, offshore Ivory Coast, on Saturday, April 29, 2017, using the Seadrill-owned West Saturn drillship. The well, operated by Ophir Energy, is located on the CI-513 license. African Petroleum holds a 45% interest in the license, with Ophir Ener
Total fires up Badamyar gas project
French oil company Total has started up production from the Badamyar project, located offshore 220 kilometers south of Yangon in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The project will enable an extension of the Yadana gas field’s 8 billion cubic meters per year production plateau beyond 2020, Total
Willoughby Spit Nourishment Project Enters Final Phase
The Willoughby Spit and Vicinity beach nourishment project in Norfolk, Virginia, is entering the final phase of construction with 81% of the project completed by the contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company. According to USACE Norfolk District, since the beginning of the works, GLDD has place
Magseis Continues Red Sea Campaign
Norwegian seabed seismic services player Magseis said it has completed the initial part of Saudi Aramco’s seabed seismic survey together with its partner BGP. Following a short yard stay and mobilisation the company said that the crew has now begun acquisition on the extension that was previously an
Bristow opens new base in Norway
Offshore helicopter operator Bristow Norway started helicopter operations on three new five-year contracts out of Florø, Norway, on May 1, 2017, supporting Statoil, Engie E&P and A/S Norske Shell. On the same day, Bristow Norway also started a new five-year contract at its well-established base in B
Elia Seeks Offshore SwitchYard Platform Fabricator
Belgian transmission system operator Elia has invited tenders for the fabrication of the Offshore SwitchYard (OSY) platform for the Modular Offshore Grid (MOG) project in the Belgian North Sea.
Cherry Grove Dredging Project Wrapped Up
The City of North Myrtle Beach reported yesterday that dredging of 24 canals and the minor channel from 42nd Avenue North to 62nd Avenue North in the Cherry Grove section of the city concluded on April 30, 2017. The dredging project, which was scheduled to begin in early October 2016, was delayed by
Fortuna FLNG umbrella agreement signed
Fortuna FLNG project partners signed an umbrella agreement that establishes the full legal and fiscal framework for what is claimed to be Africa’s first deepwater FLNG project.
Assateague Bypass Dredging Operations Underway
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredge MURDEN arrived in Ocean City Friday and began carrying out Assateague Bypass dredging operations Saturday. According to the Corps, the MURDEN is scheduled to work in the area for about a month, and will be removing material from in and around the channel, wit
Deepsea Metro I drillship completes Galoc sidetrack, goes off-hire
ASX-listed oil and gas company Nido Petroleum has completed drilling operations on the Galoc-7 sidetrack well in the Palawan Basin offshore The Philippines after which the rig has been demobilized. Nido informed on Monday that the Deepsea Metro I drillship reached a total depth of 2,569 meters measu
4Subsea Wins Shell Integrity Monitoring Contract
4Subsea has been awarded a new contract for integrity management with Shell, using the digitalised web solution FlexTrack for integrity monitoring on Draugen, Knarr and Ormen Lange fields. The contract is a continuation and further development of cooperation between Shell Norway and 4Subsea, enablin
OLT Offshore issues second tender for FSRU capacity
OLT Offshore LNG Toscana issued a tender for the allocation regasification and storage capacity at the FSRU terminal for June and July.