SBM Offshore, a provider of detailed engineering, procurement and construction services (“EPC”) to the offshore oil and gas industry, says that productivity of work currently being performed on the MOPUstor platform on Norwegian field Yme has been significantly impacted over recent months, among oth
Denmark’s Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with ConocoPhillips for the jack-up rig MAERSK RESOLVE for work in the UK North Sea. The contract includes drilling of two wells with an estimated duration of 165 days. The contract value for the firm two-well period is approximately USD 26 million. Th
Florida-based St. Johns Ship Building, a full service ship building facility with over 30 years combined experience, state of the art equipment, has launched the Sea Strength, a 157’ offshore service vessel (OSV) for A. R. Singh Contractors Ltd. The vessel will be the largest in the A. R. Singh Cont
C-NLOPB, the regulatory agency for the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area received notification from Suncor Energy that a helicopter owned by Cougar that was en route to the Terra Nova FPSO returned to base and landed safely at approximately 8:10 a.m., January 11, 2012. The helicopter was some
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate approved yesterday Det norske’s drilling program for the drilling of the Storebjørn prospect. Storebjørn is located in production license 450 in the southern North Sea. The prospect is located near existing infrastructure on the Ula and Gyda fields. The wellbore i
The Ramform Valiant, a seismic vessel owned and operated by Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, has started acquisition of over 26,000 km² of GeoStreamer® data in five blocks in the Kwanza/Benguela Basins in Angola. The size of the survey area corresponds to an area slightly larger than Massachusetts or Wal
Israel’s Petroleum Commissioner has granted approval to Adira Energy Ltd. for the farm-out of 25% of its interest in the Yitzhak offshore license to the AGR Group and Ellomay Oil and Gas 2011 LP, pursuant to a series of Farm-Out Agreements announced on December 5, 2011. The Agreements are now uncond
Vroon Offshore Services (VOS), a shipping company established a century ago in the Port of Breskens, the Netherlands, have taken delivery of a new addition to their offshore fleet. The vessel VOS Athena, 59.25 m in lenght, was delivered from the Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China at approximately 11
African Petroleum Corporation Limited, an oil and gas company focused on exploration in West Africa region, has entered into an agreement with PETROCI and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire to acquire one offshore exploration permit covering block CI-513 (“Permit”). The block is located in the Western Of
The Gjøa gas export riser replacement project has completed its activities within less than 10 months, reported the field operator GDF Suez. The Gjøa facility is now producing according to current reservoir production potential. “The execution of the project went very well, thanks to careful plannin
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate today reported that seven oil companies have purchased it’s seismic data package from Lofoten and Vesterålen, and several more have indicated their interest. The seven oil companies that have purchased the seismic data package are Statoil, ExxonMobil, Norske Shell
The FPSO OSX-1, the first oil and gas floating production, storage, and offloading unit in OSX´s fleet, is heading today towards Waimea, in the Campos Basin where it will begin the process of producing the first oil for its anchor client OGX, a largest privately owned oil and gas company in Brazil.
MEO Australia Limited has signed contract with CGGVeritas Services SA for the acquisition of three marine seismic surveys including 170 line km long-offset 2D seismic in exploration permit AC/P53 and two separate 3D surveys totalling 1,108 km2 across exploration permits AC/P50 and AC/P51 (507 km2) a
An overview from a Norwegian state owned company that operates 7,800 kilometres (4,800 mi) of natural gas pipes Gassco shows that 94.2 billion standard cubic metres (scm) of natural gas were transported from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in 2011. These volumes went to receiving terminals in
