Drilling contractor Noble Corporation has informed that the company will retire three of its semi-submersible drilling rigs Noble Paul Wolff, Noble Driller and Noble Jim Thompson. Noble Corporation also reported a fourth quarter 2014 loss from continuing operations of $595 million, or $2.38 per dilu
Development drilling has started at the Ichthys gas-condensate field
From 8 to 10 December 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Lundin Norway AS and the Edvard Grieg development project, in the Norwegian North Sea. The Edvard Grieg field is being developed using a manned fixed facility comprising a processing facility, living quar
Maritime union RMT has slammed Shell UK’s decision to award to Swiss-based Allseas Group SA the contract for the decommissioning of three of its Brent platforms that are situated on the UK Continental Shelf using its newest vessel, the Pieter Schelte, for the task. Shell has today said it has begun
Lamprell has announced the completion of construction on the jack-up rig “Jindal Pioneer” and its delivery to Dev Drilling Pte Ltd of Singapore, a D. P. Jindal Group Company, on time and within budget. The contract for the “Jindal Pioneer” rig was signed in January 2013 and this is the second rig wi
Royal Dutch Shell has started preparing plans for the decommissioning of the Brent Delta Platform in the UK North sea. The platform is one of four platforms located in the Brent oil and gas field. According to Shell, the Brent field has produced roughly 10 percent of all UK North Sea oil and gas and
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) UK has informed that an offshore services company, Bilfinger Salamis UK, has been fined for serious safety failings following an incident in which a worker died after plunging 23 metres from a platform into the sea. Lee Bertram, then 37, from Newcastle, Tyne and
CNOOC Limited has announced that its Jinzhou 9-3 comprehensive adjustment project, in the Bohai Sea, off China, has started production. The Jinzhou 9-3 oilfield is located in the North Liaodong Bay in Bohai with the water depth in the range of 6.5~10.5 meters. The main production facilities of this
Eirik Raude semi-submersible drilling rig has begun its mobilization to the North Falkland Basin from West Africa. The rig is currently anticipated to be on hire in the North Falkland Basin in the first week of March when it will start the 6 well 2015 Falklands drilling campaign. The drilling campai
Singapore’s Keppel FELS is on its way to deliver the fourth semi-submersible accommodation rig to Floatel International Ltd (Floatel) At a ceremony in Singapore, held on Saturday, January 31, the rig was named Floatel Endurance at the Keppel FELS yard. It will be deployed to work for Chevron in West
Drydocks World, the international service provider to the shipping, offshore, oil, gas and energy sectors currently has nine rigs in the Drydocks World-Dubai yard which is a new record for the shipyard. “Drydocks World is proud of our ability to provide solutions to any technical challenges and offe
Europe’s “first and only oil and gas event focusing solely on topsides installations” is set to take place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) on 16th and 17th March 2016. According to the press release, Topsides UK will tackle some of the challenges facing the industry by shinin
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website according to which the U.S. offshore rig count is down by five. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -90 to 1543 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 90 rigs from last week to 1543, with oil rigs down 94 to 1223, gas […]
Wood Mackenzie’s Caspian upstream research team have assessed the most significant events of 2014 impacting the region’s oil and gas sector, including the Ukraine crisis and the collapse of global oil prices and significant progress with the region’s high profile megaprojects, identifying the key ar
