Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website according to which offshore rig count has dropped. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -29 to 1811 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 29 rigs from last week to 1811, with oil rigs down 17 to 1482, gas rigs down 12 to 328, [&hel
McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a contract to install the offshore jacket, deck and piles for the Ayatsil-A drilling platform for PEMEX Exploracion y Produccion (PEMEX) in the Bay of Campeche Ayatsil field. McDermott says that the value of the award is included in its fourth quarter b
Norway’s Statoil has informed that the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea was brought on stream on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 08.36 a.m. According to Statoil, recoverable reserves from the field are estimated at 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of several new p
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website. Offshore rig count is unchanged from last week. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -35 to 1840 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 35 rigs from last week to 1840, with oil rigs down 37 to 1499, gas rigs up 2 […]
CAMAC Energy Inc. announced today that the semi-submersible drilling unit, Sedco Express, has arrived to the Oyo Field located in OML 120 offshore Nigeria. CAMAC has contracted the Transocean Sedco Express to expedite the timing of production tie-in from the Oyo-7 and Oyo-8 development wells. The Se
A plot twist is a radical change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a novel, film, television series, comic, video game, or other work of narrative. That’s exactly what happened with one drilling contractor in Norway. At the times when oil companies are cutting costs and scrapping
Twenty five years ago, on December 26th 1989, the first field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf developed using a floating production unit produced its first oil.
Rowan Companies, a U.S.-based drilling contractor, has provided its monthly fleet status report according to which three of its rigs were awarded new contracts and one rig received contract extension. According to Rowan’s December fleet status report, the company’s high-specification jack-up rig Joe
Today, we are bringing you videos our readers watched the most on Offshore Energy Today during the course of 2014. Enjoy! 1. VIDEO: World’s largest semi-submersible taking shape With topside dimensions of 150 metres by 110 metres, the Ichthys offshore processing facility will be the world’s larges
Brazil’s Petrobras has reached, on December 21st, “a new historical record” of daily oil and NGL production, producing 2 million 286 thousand barrels. Produced volume does not take into account the share of partners, and broke the previous record of 2 million 257 thousand barrels from December 27th,
HOIDI International and its production division, Tianjin HOIDI Group Co. Ltd, have won work for the rig leg fabrication & construction of two additional Bestford Offshore Pte Ltd Gusto MSC CJ46-X100-D from China Merchant Heavy Industries (CMHI). CMHI will be constructing the rigs in Mazhou Island, S
Two North Sea oil rigs were evacuated due to power outage. According to Evening Express, a daily newspaper in Aberdeen, all non-essential personnel were evacuated yesterday from the Brae Alpha and Brae Bravo platforms located in the Brae field in the North Sea. The field is located about 155 miles n
China’s rig builder CIMC Raffles has said it won the bidding for the construction of a jack-up drilling rig for Sinopec. The 300ft rig will be managed by Sinopec Shengli Petroleum Engineering Co., Ltd after the delivery. The rigs working depth will be 91.4m, design temperature of -15℃, drilling dept
POSH Xanadu, a flotel owned by Singapore’s PACC Offshore Services Holdings Ltd (POSH), has left a Chinese yard and is now on its way to Brazil. The semi-submersible accommodation vessel of the Eide Flex design, will work for Petrobras, supporting the oil company’s oil and gas production activities i
