Saipem has won four new Engineering & Construction contracts, onshore in Saudi Arabia and offshore in Brazil, for a total amount of approximately $4 billion. Saipem has been awarded by Saudi Aramco three contracts in Saudi Arabia for onshore engineering and construction activities. Two EPC contracts
EOC Limited, one of Asia’s leading providers of offshore oil and gas development and production solutions, has secured an award worth in excess of $40 million including options for the Lewek Chancellor. Under this award with an oil major, the accommodation and construction barge will provide full su
Reef Subsea has successfully secured its first pipeline trenching project for the industry-leading Q1000 jet trencher on the Sierra L5 pipeline for client GDF SUEZ. This month, Reef Subsea will mobilise its state-of-the-art Q1000 jet trencher on-board the Reef Despina Construction Support Vessel to
Songa Offshore, an international offshore drilling company, has announced its rig fleet update for April 2014. Songa Venus achieved an operational efficiency of 100% and an earnings efficiency of 96% during the month working for Mubadala Petroleum in Malaysia. The rig went off contract on May 6, and
Statoil executive vice president for its North American operations Bill Maloney said that the company has set a goal of recovering an average of 70% of the oil in its Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian continental shelf. “We’ve set a very large goal for oil recovery for Johan Sverdrup,” says Malo
TGS announces the expansion of multi-client 2D surveys offshore Eastern Canada with plans to acquire more than 30,000 km of seismic data, in partnership with PGS, utilizing two vessels during the 2014 acquisition season. The M/V Sanco Spirit, utilizing the PGS GeoStreamer® technology, will acquire s
Statoil has received consent to use pipelines and subsea production facilities and implement changes at Grane in production licence 169 Svalin. Svalin is eight kilometres south-west of the Grane field. Water depth is around 120 metres. Svalin has been developed using a multi-branch well from the Gra
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces the successful production of the 100 millionth barrel of crude oil from the Jubilee field, Ghana. To mark this significant milestone Tullow has produced a new country film to provide an update on the company’s operations in Ghana. Ghana’s Jubilee field, which stradd
Department of Energy & Climate Change has reported that the latest offshore oil and gas licensing round, which closed for applications on Friday 25 April, has received a strong response with 173 applications from industry for around 370 blocks. Energy Minister, Michael Fallon, said: “It’s 50 years s
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received an order from C-Innovation to supply a fleet of six UHD-III Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) systems for its subsea operations business. The ROV systems will be supplied by FMC Technologies’ Schilling Robotics business unit and are expected to be
WeSubsea and Frontier Subsea have reached an agreement that will allow WeSubsea to deliver their equipment and services to the Canadian subsea market through Frontier Subsea. Atlantic Canada is characterized by iceberg prone waters, challenging sea states, long winters and increasingly deep drilling
Atlantis Resources Limited, the AIM-listed vertically integrated turbine supplier and project owner in the tidal power industry, and JSC Lenhydroproject (a 100%-owned subsidiary of RusHydro) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding about cooperation on prospective tidal power projects in Australia.
Transocean Ltd. has announced that it intends to pursue the creation of an entity comprising eight of its UK North Sea midwater drilling rigs. The company expects to establish the new entity, Caledonia Offshore Drilling Company, during the second half of 2014 and, at an appropriate stage, separate C
Senergy’s Survey & GeoEngineering (Senergy S&G) group has been awarded a major contract to support GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd (GDF SUEZ) in the forthcoming offshore construction phases of its major Cygnus gas project. Senergy S&G has provided survey project management and geosciences engineering consultanc
