Oil States International, Inc. announced that its Oil States Industries subsidiary has been awarded a contract from Subsea 7 to supply 27 FlexJoint(R) Steel Catenary Riser (SCR) terminations and 40 receptacle assemblies for the Guara and Lula NE oilfields in Brazil. This order represents part of one
In the wake of the recent disasters that have struck the offshore petroleum industry, the International Regulators’ Forum (IRF) will be organising an extraordinary safety Summit Conference in Stavanger on 4 and 5 October, hosted by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). Background The disaster
EDB ErgoGroup has received notification that Statoil has exercised an option for consultancy services in the areas of SAP and Industrial IT for a further two years. The agreement entered into is an extension of a framework agreement that extends the current collaboration between Statoil and EDB Ergo
Noble Energy Inc. is due to begin exploratory drilling in Cyprus’s offshore Block 12 in September, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Antonis Paschalides has announced. On Friday, the cabinet granted the company permission to drill in Cypriot waters and use the company’s rig currently in Isr
Dolphin Geophysical AS has signed a contract with Lundin Norway AS for the acquisition of more than 600 km2 of 3D seismic data in the Barents Sea. The survey will be acquired by the Artemis Arctic and is estimated to commence in early August. “We are very pleased to be the chosen contractor by Lundi
Nido Petroleum Limited , on behalf of the SC 54B Joint Venture, wishes to provide the following update on the Gindara-1 well. At 06:00 hours on 20 June 2011 the current operation at Gindara-1 was recovering the wireline logging tool following completion of the logging program. The following summaris
Tightening monitoring offshore by Canadian environmental regulators has prompted Castrol Offshore and its Canadian distributor K&D Pratt , to highlight the implications of existing guidelines that encourage the select ion of chemicals with superior environmental performance to minimise the potential
Scheldepoort Repair & Conversion Yard in Vlissingen has signed a contract for the conversion of jack up drill rig “GFS Labrador” into an accommodation rig. The project will commence when the rig arrives in Vlissingen at the end of June and will take approximately 4 months. Among other things the mai
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver ENSCO 8504, the fifth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs being built exclusively for Ensco plc . Keppel FELS expects to deliver the rig on time, within budget and with no lost time incidents. ENSCO 8504 h
Woodside announced that it has revised the expected cost and schedule of the Pluto LNG Project following its regular review of the progress of the project. The first LNG cargo is now estimated for March 2012. The revised estimate is attributable to slower than expected progress on the commissioning
The executive director of Greenpeace International faces prison in Greenland for breaking an injunction and boarding a giant rig exploring… John Vidal, Guardian.co.uk [mappress] Source:Guardian , June 17, 2011;
The final ruling has been delivered in the proceedings between subsidiaries of Aker Solutions and Chevron concerning delivery of the Blind Faith platform. The platform was installed in the Gulf of Mexico and started production in 2008. The ruling will result in a recordable loss of approx NOK 220 mi
Petrobras’ domestic oil and gas output in May was 2,361,080 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), 0.6% more than the 2,345,989 figure for April, and up 0.4 % compared to May last year. Natural gas output reached 56.899 million cubic meters, 7.8% up on May 2010 and 4.5% up on the April 2011 figu
Statoil wants to compress gas on the seabed to boost recovery. Subsea compression was recently selected as the preferred concept for Gullfaks. “Gas compression on the seabed represents an important advance in technology, and once again, Statoil is leading the way for development of new technology. T
