The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of emergency preparedness, cranes and lifting at Valemon field, located in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator of the Valemon field, which is in the northern North Sea, west of the Kvitebjørn field. The field has been developed
Expro, an international oilfield services company, has secured a significant Europe CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) contract, providing fully integrated well testing and fluid sampling services for Statoil Petroleum AS in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Starting on January 1, 2015, t
Lamprell, a builder of offshore drilling rigs, with construction facilities in the U.A.E, expects 2015 to be a challenging year. The company has said that while 2014 was an exceptionally strong year for Lamprell, that level of performance will not be replicated in 2015 due to Lamprell’s projects bei
Northern Offshore, Ltd. has announced today that on January 2, 2015 it issued a Notice of Contract Termination to Oceanic Consultants Nigeria Ltd. (Oceanic), an affiliate of Houston, Texas based CAMAC Energy Inc. for the Energy Searcher drillship drilling contract. The drillship, Energy Searcher, wa
Dear readers, in today’s list of the most read articles of this past week is an article of the arrival of the Pieter Schelte vessel to Rotterdam. To call it just a ‘vessel’ is an understatement. A platform installation / decommissioning and pipelaying vessel in one, it has been described as a twin-h
China’s COSCO Nantong shipyard has scrapped the construction of the unconventional Octabuoy offshore production platform as it was unable to find a buyer. In 2008, the company secured a contract to build the platform’s hull and the topside for ATP Oil & Gas’ UK subsidiary. The U.S.-based ATP Oil & G
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has processed the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the 34/10-53 S (Rutil) discovery in the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen area in the North Sea. Statoil submitted the plan for development and operation to the authorities in December 2014. Production start
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted today an international rig count report for December 2014 on its Investor Relations website according to which the international offshore rig count is down by three rigs from last month’s count. The international rig count for December 2014 was 1,313, down 11 fro
Keppel FELS Limited, a Singapore-based company recently named “Largest manufacturer of offshore rigs – current” by Guinness World Records, has delivered a KFELS B Class jack-up rig to Mexican national oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). The rig was named Yunuen by Lady Sponsor Valerie Pahl-Her
McDermott International, Inc. has completed the installation of a 3,086-ton central processing platform (CPP) topside using the tight-slot float-over method in the Kepodang gas field, Muriah Working Area, offshore Indonesia for PC Muriah Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS. According to McDer
EFC Group, a designer and manufacturer of controls, instrumentation, monitoring and handling systems for the global oil and gas drilling industry, has been awarded contracts with major oil and gas drilling contractor companies to the value of £3.65 million ($5.5 million). The company has completed t
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. a provider of offshore deepwater drilling rigs, has secured a contract extension for one of its drillships. In detail, the company said that Italy’s Eni has extended the contract for the drillship Ocean Rig Poseidon in Angola for a further one year until the second quarter of 2017
Trapoil has announced that a contract has been signed for a jack-up rig for the drilling of a well to test the Niobe prospect, in the North Sea. The Niobe prospect, formerly named Kratos, is located in the Licence P.1889, Blocks 12/26b and 12/27, within the Moray Firth. Suncor Energy UK is the opera
Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has informed that the restricted output from the Huntington field, located in the UK North Sea, continues. Noreco says that currently, no further clarification has been received about when normal operations at the CATS riser platform, which indirectly restricts Hunt
