Songa Offshore, Cyprus-based offshore drilling company, provides fleet update for February 2011. Songa Venus achieved operating efficiency of 97% during the month. The rig continues to operate for Total E&P in Australia. Songa Mercur(photo) is currently in transit to Singapore after obtaining Chines
Apache Corporation reported that interim repair work on the Forties Bravo to Charlie pipeline was completed on March 6, 2011, and production from Forties Bravo is ramping up to approximately 50 percent of the pre-outage rate of 11,600 barrels of oil per day. The replacement pipeline is scheduled for
GE is pleased to announce that another significant milestone has been reached in its strategic acquisition of Wellstream Holdings PLC. This morning, Wellstream announced that the listing of its ordinary shares on the Official List had been cancelled and Wellstream’s shares ceased to be admitted to t
Talisman Energy Inc. has announced it is deepening its strategic relationship with Sasol Limited (Sasol) in the Montney shale play, to include the sale of a 50% net working interest in its Cypress A assets, for a total consideration of C$1,050 million. Talisman will operate and manage the Cypress A
Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. announced that it has won the bidding for the BDM (Batam-Dumai-Melaka) submarine cable project and will provide the end-to-end turnkey submarine system solution. The BDM project will complete a cable system between Melaka, Malaysia and Dumai & Batam, Indonesia by Q4 o
Enerflex has been contracted by BG subsidiary QGC to supply the upstream triethylene glycol (TEG) dehydration packages for the Queensland Curtis LNG Project in Queensland, representing a significant milestone in the region for Enerflex. The Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Project is being constructed
Technip was awarded by GDF SUEZ an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract, worth approximately €45 million, for the Gjøa field development located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. This contract covers: * engineering and fabrication of two smoothbore gas export rise
The Atlas Copco Gas and Process Division has finalized the purchase agreement of the pump business from JC Carter Company LLC, located in Costa Mesa, California, USA. JC Carter is a leading producer of cryogenic submerged motor pumps, which have many applications in the growing natural gas market. T
Dredging International (Australia) Pty Ltd and Van Oord Australia Pty Ltd have been awarded the Western Basin Main Works Dredging – Parcel 5 contract in the Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. The client of this AUD 260 million (€ 190 million) contract is the Queensland Gladstone Ports Corpora
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. announced today that it has agreed to acquire an additional 22-percent interest in Southern Natural Gas Company (SNG) from El Paso Corporation for $587 million. The acquisition will increase El Paso Pipeline Partners’ interest in SNG to 82-percent. El Paso Corporation
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Norse Cutting & Abandonment AS (NCA), for approximately $60 million. The purchase is expected to close by March 31, 2011. NCA is an oilfield technology company that specializes in providing subse
EnerMech Qatar LLC has been awarded a multi-million dollar three year call-off contract with Dolphin Energy Limited. Mechanical engineering company EnerMech, which has bases across the eastern hemisphere, will provide nitrogen purging and leak testing on Dolphin Energy’s onshore and offshore facilit
DOF ASA’ subsidiary, the Aberdeen-based specialist subsea service company DOF Subsea UK has secured a contract for Inspection, Repair and Maintenance Services in the Baobab field, West Africa which is worth approximately £1 million. The project is scheduled to start in Q2 2011, using DOF Subsea’s ve
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces today that the Sedco 704 semi submersible drilling unit has commenced the drilling of the final production well for the development of the Athena field (“Athena”). Well 14/18b-A2 (“the well”) is being drilled from the Athena drill centre and is the final well to be drill
