Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade Ltda announced it has been ordered by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to shut in one of its 11 production wells and four produced water injection wells at its off-shore Frade joint-venture Floating Production-Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility. The move by
Technip announced that it has completed the acquisition of Global Industries, Ltd . The shareholders of Global Industries approved the merger at a special shareholders meeting held on November 30, 2011 and will receive US$8.00 per share in cash. Global Industries has become an indirect, wholly-owned
In Q1 2013 Fugro will take delivery of a new-built vessel, M/V Fugro Pioneer, the first of Fugro’s dedicated Offshore Survey Costal Vessel series. Featured on Stand 11121 at EWEA Offshore Amsterdam, the new vessel will operate in North-West European waters. Designed to Fugro specifications and fitte
Eni announces the purchase of a 32.5% stake in the Evans Shoal gas field in the Timor Sea, Australia. The field is located offshore in the NT/P48 exploration permit in the north Bonaparte Basin, around 300km northwest of Darwin, where there is an existing LNG plant precinct. The undeveloped Evans Sh
Global Industries, Ltd. announced that, at a special meeting held in Houston, Texas, its shareholders voted to approve the proposed merger of an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Technip S.A. with and into Global Industries, as well as other proposals related to the merger. Global Industries and
Cook Island’s approach to deep sea mining should be adopted by other Pacific nations, says a Cook Islands environmental lawyer and … (radioaustralia) [mappress] Source: Radio Australia , December 01, 2011;
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that Marvin J. Migura, Executive Vice President, will deliver a presentation at the Wells Fargo Securities 10th Annual Pipeline, MLP and E&P, Services & Utility Symposium in New York, NY on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. The presentation slides will be accessi
The importance of the west of Shetland province as a significant new gas frontier is the theme for Oil & Gas UK’s forthcoming breakfast briefing which features guest speakers from an international oil and gas operator, a European integrated oil and gas company and a major bank. Sponsored by The Roya
Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, announces that it has been awarded the MAAPS 2011 Geospatial Excellence Award for Technology Innovation. The award was given to the ALTM Aquarius, an innovative compact solution for mapping coastal
Located on mid-ocean ridges, hot vent ecosystems are characterized by extreme environments and unique organisms, which don’t depend on sunlight – a rare feat! Photosynthesis is the way plants convert energy to food, but deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities are sustained by microorganisms, which ca
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation announces two new research fellows for 2012. Joao Monteiro from Portugal and Badi Samaniego from the Philippines are the latest recipients of the ‘Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Research Fellow’ grant. They join eleven previous grantees from
ShawCor Ltd. announced that its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a contract with a value in excess of US$45 million from Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide corrosion protection and concrete weight coating for the Barzan pipeline project in the Qatari sector of the Arabian Gulf. The
MMT has been contracted by Nexans Norway AS to carry out a pre-engineering marine survey of an 80 m wide corridor between Qalet Marku in Malta and Marina di Ragusa in Sicily. The survey operation will be conducted by MMT survey vessel Franklin, (length 56 meters). M/V Franklin is fully equipped to p
Nido Petroleum Philippines Pty Limited, as Operator of Service Contract 54A , on behalf of partners Yilgarn Petroleum Philippines Pty Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Kairiki Energy Ltd), Trafigura Ventures III B.V. and TG World Corporation, announces the acquisition of new 2D seismic in SC 54A . K
