Aker Solutions has been awarded a letter of intent (LOI) by Statoil for the engineering, procurement and construction of a subsea production system for the Fossekall-Dompap project on the Norwegian continental shelf. Aker Solutions estimates the contract value to be approximately NOK 1 billion. Scop
The Board of Desire Petroleum plc announces the appointment of Mr Ken Black as Exploration Director. Aged 51, Ken is a petroleum geoscientist with 30 years experience in the oil industry. He began his career as a geophysicist with BNOC/Britoil before moving to Clyde Petroleum Plc where he became an
Statoil has been granted consent to use the mobile facility Scarabeo 5 for permanent plugging of well 6506/11-A-3H in the Norwegian Sea. The well is part of production licence 134B/C and is located on Morvin, about 20 kilometres north of the Kristin field and 15 kilometres west of the Åsgard field.
GC Rieber Shipping has entered into a three-year charter agreement with the UK Ministry of Defence (“MoD”) for the vessel “Polarbjørn”. The contract commences medio April 2011 and expires in March 2014. The contract with MoD will in combination with the recently announced charter agreement for the C
Siem Offshore Inc. (“the Company”) announces that it will enter into the business for submarine cable installation, repair and maintenance projects. The Company has identified the installation of submarine cables and associated services to be an emerging growing market, both with respect to field an
The Kaikoura Canyon will be the subject of an in-depth presentation by Niwa tomorrow evening when visiting specialists come to town… (stuff) [mappress] Source: stuff, March 30, 2011; Image: travel
Petrobras CEO, José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, spoke on Tuesday (03/29) about the global energy scene during the 2011 Conference of the ARPEL – Regional Association of Oil, Gas, and Biofuels Sector Companies in Latin America and the Caribbean -, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay. During his address,
Siem Offshore Inc. (“the Company”) announces that it will enter into the business for submarine cable installation, repair and maintenance… (siemoffshore) [mappress] Source: siemoffshore, March 30, 2011
Tap Oil Limited provides the following update on the Zola-1 exploration well, offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Location / Proposed Depth The Zola-1/Zola-1 ST1 well is located in permit WA-290-P, immediately south of the giant Gorgon gas field in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Th
Today both, AFS Transport (Rotterdam) BV & AFS Transport (Airfreight) BV, obtained the AEO status. The AEO certificate was handed over by Dutch customs AEO means Authorized Economic Operator and in order to obtain the status, the company needs to meet the following standards: – To be a solvent compa
The ministry has plans to invest about $90 billion in the upstream and downstream sector of the South Pars gas field in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21), Iranian Petroleum minister, Dr. Mirkazemi announced. He said that about $60 billion will be allocated to the upstream projects
OSX Brasil S.A. (“OSX”), a Brazilian corporation engaged in the equipment and services sector for the offshore oil and gas industry, by means of integrated operations in shipbuilding, chartering of exploration and production (E&P) units, and operation and maintenance (O&M) services, announces that O
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has entered into two long term contracts with Petrobras SA for the “Normand Mariner” and “Normand Master” (23.500 bhp AHTS build in -02 and -03). The two contracts have a duration of 4 years firm with an option to extend each contract for an additional 4 more years. The v
Converteam announces today the signing of an agreement with GE pursuant to which the financial Converteam shareholders commit to sell their shares to GE. Pierre Bastid and Florent Battistella will retain a significant shareholding in Converteam after the closing of the transaction. This agreement is
