EXMAR NV of Belgium (“EXMAR”) and LLOG Deepwater Development Company LLC of the United States (“LLOG”) have reached an agreement in principle whereby LLOG will acquire the semi-submersible production platform OPTI-EX™ from EXMAR. The OPTI-EX™ is currently located quay side in Ingleside, Texas. LLOG
UP to 300 wind turbines the height of the London Eye could be sited off the Dorset coast and generating energy by 2018.The offshore wind… Melanie Vass (bournemouthecho) – [mappress] Source:bournemouthecho , June 17, 2010;
Valiant Petroleum plc (“Valiant”) announced the second Tybalt exploration well (211/8c-4Z) has been successfully tested, delivering a post clean-up peak rate of 5,400 barrels of oil per day (“bopd”) and 4 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (“mmscfd”) on a 56/64″ choke representing a combined
Massachusetts utility regulators are holding the first of three public hearings on National Grid’s deal to buy power from the Cape Wind… [mappress] Source: boston, June 17, 2010;
Deep Down, Inc. is an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services. In response to recent investor inquires, the company commented that the recently announced 180-day moratorium on exploration drilling in water de
Istanbul/Bonn (WWEA) – On the occasion of the 9th World Wind Energy Conference 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey, the Board of the World Wind Energy Association has decided to give the World Wind Energy Award 2010 to the Founding Member States of the International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and hand it ov
In line with the recently approved sand berm plans by the President of the US, the State of Louisiana has contracted Royal Boskalis… [mappress] Source: Boskalis, June 16, 2010;
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from the public on the research,… [mappress] Source: allvoices, June 16, 2010;
Water Works — Terra Nova This summer, from 12 June to 5 September 2010, Kunsthal Rotterdam presents over eighty works by painter and lithographer Jeroen Hermkens (1960). From January 2009 onwards Hermkens travelled around the world for one and a half years in order to register the activities of dred
The Dredging Networking Group – a consortium of internationally active companies from the dredging industry, dredge operators and scientific experts – will inform European dredging operators over directly applicable possibilities concerning the reduction of the operating costs for dredging vessels.
The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has today launched its Coastal Resources Atlas and Vulnerability Index (‘Coastal Atlas’), a… [mappress] Source: ameinfo, June 16, 2010;
Serica Energy PLC has reached an agreement with BG International Ltd., as operator of the Lomond field, and Dana Petroleum Ltd., as operator of the Arran field (formerly the Barbara and Phyllis fields), whereby BG will carry out front end engineering and design work (FEED) for a bridge-linked platfo
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia (ConocoPhillips) has received consent to use the jack-up drilling facility Mærsk Innovator for well work on Ekofisk 2/4-E Tor. The consent relates to plugging and abandoning four wells, and also re-completing a well. According to the application, the work is expected to st
The Spanish government has lowered its installed capacity targets for solar and offshore wind power, although it is maintaining plans to… Juan Montes (nasdaq) [mappress] Source: nasdaq, June 15, 2010;
