Prosafe will try to reinstate the tow for its flotel Safe Bristolia today after the towline snapped on Sunday leaving the flotel adrift in the UK North Sea. The vessel was on its way from England to Poland when it broke loose due to the heavy weather. The flotel currently has 33 people on board. Acc
Statoil, a Norwegian oil and gas company, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for exploration drilling in the North Sea offshore Norway using the Songa Delta rig. Statoil is the operator for production licences 272 and 035 and has received consent to drill explorati
The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority has found safety non-conformities on the Wintershall-operated Brage field situated east of Oseberg field in the northern part of the North Sea. The goal of the audit was to determine whether the operator, drilling contractor and well service companies are mee
Offshore Energy Today reported last week that an offshore worker had died after a heavy wave hit the COSL Innovator drilling rig offshore Norway. The worker has now been identified by his union, Industri Energi. Rune Morten Narvåg, aged 53, was killed by a giant wave that hit the rig operating for S
The article has been updated to include a statement by Prosafe One of Prosafe’s semi-submersible accommodation vessels is running loose in the UK North Sea and Prosafe is trying to regain control of it after a towline connecting it to a tugboat snapped on Sunday. According to the Norwegian news webs
Opus Offshore-owned drillship, the Opus Tiger-1, has completed its second sea trial in China. The drillship will be managed by a joint venture company between Songa Offshore and Opus Offshore, named Songa Opus Offshore Drilling Pte Ltd. The Opus Tiger-1 drillship was built by Shanghai Shipyard and t
The weekly U.S. offshore rig count is up from last week, Baker Hughes has informed through its Weekly Rig Count reports. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -2 to 698 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 2 rigs from last week to 698, with oil rigs down 2 to 536, and gas rigs are unchanged from […]
Dear readers, as you are probably aware by now 2015 has been one of the toughest years ever for the oil and gas industry, with oil prices reaching eleven year lows, thousands of workers laid off, hundreds of vessels stacked, and dozens of rigs scrapped. However, thanks to you, our readers, the year
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has decided to investigate a fatal incident that occurred on the COSL Pioneer drilling rig at the Troll field on Wednesday, December 30, 2015, when one person was killed and two others injured. As previously reported, a big wave hit the living quarters of the CO
Songa Endurance semi-submersible drilling rig has started drilling operations under its contract with Statoil in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The rig’s owner Songa Offshore broke the news on Thursday, saying that the rig “is now on operating rate”. The Songa Endurance is on an eight-year d
Gulf Marine Services (GMS), a provider of liftboats for the international oil and gas industry, has signed a contract with Abu Dhabi Ports to create a facility at Zayed Port where GMS will construct and maintain its offshore support vessels. Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi city will lease the new facility t
Oil giant Shell has terminated a rig contract with Transocean, for the Polar Pioneer semi-submersible drilling unit. The oil company had used the rig for its drilling campaign offshore Alaska, but in September it said it would stop its Alaskan operations for the forseeable future, citing bad drillin
This year, the offshore oil and gas industry has had to come to terms with the worst downturn for more than a decade. With commodity prices plummeting to an eleven-year low in December, it is time to reflect on the year gone by and consider the outlook for the year to come, Douglas-Westwood, an ener
Norwegian oil company Statoil has won a court case initiated by Diamond Offshore Drilling for a termination of a drilling contract in 2014. Namely, the Norwegian oil giant in June 2014 terminated the contract for the Ocean Vanguard semi-submersible drilling rig “due to technical aspects of the rig.”
