Saturday November 19th, the LNG-powered ship Viking Prince was launched at Kleven Yard. Kleven Maritime is the leading supplier of gas-powered ships, with five ships delivered, and another three in the order book, including the Viking Prince. Eidesvik Offshore and Kleven Maritime constructed the wor
ShawCor Ltd. today announced its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a second contract from Chevron Australia Pty. Ltd. to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for the flowlines on the Wheatstone Project. This contract is in addition to the previously announced co
Premier Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 406, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 9/1-1 S (Gardrofa). The well is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The well, which is the first exploration well in PL 406, was drilled was drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility
Drilling of exploration well Makouala Marine-1, located offshore in Block Marine XIV Congo (Brazzaville) has started, Lundin said on its website The planned depth is approximately 2,700 metres below mean sea level and the well will be drilled using the semi-submersible drilling rig ENSCO 5003. The d
ShawCor Ltd. today announced that its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a letter of intent from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for the gas export pipeline on the Ichthys Gas Field Development Project. The letter of intent is condition
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. today announced the sale of five Perry XLX Heavy Work-Class Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) systems to Marine Platforms Limited (MPL). MPL offers diverse oil and gas services to the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in West Africa from their Lagos and Onne Fre
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announced this morning that it has discovered oil in the Janglau-1 well that was drilled in Block PM308A, offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Janglau-1 was drilled to a total depth of 3,820 metres by the jackup rig “Offshore Courageous”. The objectives of the well we
The President of the Republic of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni met in Luanda yesterday to discuss Eni’s activities and projects in the country. In the meeting, the parties talked about the important results achieved through recent exploration in Angola, including the dis
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that its wholly owned Norwegian subsidiary, Oceaneering AS, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AGR Field Operations (AGR FO) from AGR Group ASA and FieldCo Invest AS. AGR FO, headquartered in Bergen, Norway, is a provider of inspection, maint
Chevron Corporation has issued an estimate of total oil volume from ocean floor seep lines near its Frade Field, offshore Brazil Chevron said it believed that approximately 2,400 barrels of oil have been emitted to date since seeps were first detected on November 9. The company noted that this estim
Cougar Helicopter was, on Monday afternoon, grounded on the heli deck of Transocean owned, Henry Goodrich semi submersible rig due to potential hydraulic liquid leak, C-NLOPB said in its incident bulletin. The issue was discovered during routine checks by the crew of the helicopter, offshore Canada.
The giant Pazflor development, located some 150 kilometres offshore Luanda,Angola, was inaugurated today at a ceremony attended by José Botelho de Vasconcelos, Angola’s Minister of Petroleum, Manuel Vicente, Chairman and CEO of Sonangol, Christophe de Margerie, Chairman and CEO of Total, Yves-Louis
Expro, an international oilfield services provider, has achieved the Shell Goal Zero award for 1,980 days with no recordable incidents as of July 31, 2011 for its Malaysian operations. The award is given to the service provider at every 180-day period when the period is achieved without having any r
Asia still needs international oil companies to continue to play a large and essential role in the oil and gas industry’s research and development activity, despite the rise of national oil companies, a group of the region’s oil and gas industry leaders has stated during the round table discussion e
