Interpetroleum Services has awarded Prosafe a bareboat contract for Safe Lancia operating for Pemex offshore Mexico. The contract commences on 19 August and ends on 31 December 2012. Total value of the contract linked to the award is about USD 57 million. Prosafe is the world’s leading owner and ope
Rising oil prices and heightened exploration & production activity are drawing more Indian shipping companies to invest in the offshore… [mappress] Source: Financial Express, August 9, 2010:
BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. Subsea Source Control The MC252 well has been shut-in since July 15; there is currently no oil flowing into the Gulf. BP continues to work with the guidance and approval of the National
AWE Limited advises that at 0600 hours today the Tuatara-1 well was drilling ahead at a measured depth of 982 metres. Intermittent gas shows have been encountered in the well over the drilled interval between 780 and 900 metres. The significance of these shows will be fully assessed by wireline logs
BP appoints Mike Utsler as BP’s lead representative in the Unified Area Command (UAC) and as chief operating officer for the BP Gulf Coast Restoration Organization. Utsler, who has served as BP’s commander in the Houma incident command post since April, replaces Doug Suttles, who has led BP’s overal
Abanaki Corporation, the world leader in oil skimming and coolant maintenance products, announced the second-edition of its Solutions Sourcebook for oil skimming applications. The newly expanded 43-page handbook offers application notes and photos of 40 real-world implementations of oil skimming. Ab
Hess Corporation announced today that it has agreed to sell $1.25 billion of notes with a 5.60% coupon maturing on February 15, 2041 in a registered public offering led by Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and RBS Secu
Chevron is making a major bet that the oil industry will be allowed to develop Canada’s Arctic offshore resources, winning a federal… By Shawn McCarthy (The Globe and Mail) [mappress] Source: TheGlobeandMail, August 6, 2010
Close to 250 lawsuits or claims have been filed against Transocean, the company which owns the BP-leased offshore rig behind the huge Gulf… by The Calgary Herald [mappress] Source: Thecalgaryherald, August 6, 2010:
EnCore Oil plc announces that the J.W.McLean rig has arrived at the Cladhan location on UK Northern North Sea blocks 210/29a & 210/30a and operations have commenced to sidetrack and delineate the oil discovery made in December 2008. The equity in the Cladhan joint venture partnership is as follows:
Trelleborg Offshore has installed its Elastopipe corrosion-free fire safety deluge system on Maersk’s Ngujima-Yin, a floating production… by Processingtalk [mappress] Source: Processingtalk, August 6, 2010:
Subsea 7 Inc , one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, announced today that it has entered into a global technology partnership agreement with CRC-Evans Pipeline International (CRC-Evans) that will lead to both companies providing a range of enhanced pipeline fabric
BP today completed cementing operations at the MC252 well at 14:15 CDT, as part of the static kill procedure. Monitoring of the well is underway in order to confirm the effectiveness of the procedure. Operating with the guidance and approval of the National Incident Commander and government official
RWE Dea UK announced today that the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) of a minimum facilities platform for the Breagh A Development has been awarded to Heerema Vlissingen B.V. (“Heerema”). This is the second contract this year to be awarded by RWE Dea UK to Heerema,
