The oil rig parked between Wied iż-Żurrieq and Filfla is expected to leave Maltese territorial waters by Tuesday, according to a… [mappress] Source:ThetimesMalta, June 14, 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 and Containment The lower marine riser package (LMRP) containment cap, installed on June 3, continues to collect oil and gas flowing from the MC252 well and transpo
The semisubmersible platform by Aker Solutions for the Gjøa oil and gas field offshore Norway, today started on its journey from the yard at Stord to the North Sea, where installation will take place. Production start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010. Gjøa features innovative solutions
The first of three offshore gas production platforms, known as ‘QW8’ for the Qatargas 3 and 4 ventures has been handed over to Qatargas … [mappress] Source: thepeninsulaqatar, June 14, 2010:
The Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A. has awarded the building contract for the dynamically positioned platform installation / decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pieter Schelte to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., Korea. The contract value is 454.5 million Euros on a total building
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced its sixth oil discovery in exploratory block CB-ONN-2003/1 (CB 10 A&B), awarded under the NELPV round of exploration bidding. The well CB10A-T1 was drilled to a total depth of 1500 meters in Part A of the block,with the objectives of exploring the play fai
RBG, the leading provider of fabric maintenance and construction support to the global energy industry, has secured a contract worth more than £500,000 for the manufacture of two risers for Apache North Sea Ltd. The two 130 metre long risers, constructed at RBG’s Invergordon, UK facility, will be us
Researchers studying the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico said Thursday up to twice the amount of… [mappress] Source: detnews, June 11, 2010;
Sevan has been informed that the Sevan Driller has been accepted by Petrobras. The rig will be operating in the pre-salt area offshore Brazil under a fixed six year drilling contract. Sevan Driller is designed to include the most advanced drilling capabilities in the industry and is based on Sevan’s
BRISTOW, which provides helicopters to offshore oil and gas drillers, has warned that revenues from the Gulf of Mexico could fall by as… [mappress] Source: Business, June 11, 2010:
As big multinational energy explorers focus on New Zealand’s offshore petroleum basins, the chief petroleum geologist for Crown Minerals… [mappress] Source: thedominionpost, June 11, 2010
The Chinese company Sinochem Group and Statoil signed today in Oslo a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will foster cooperation and long term experience sharing between the two companies. The MoU follows the Peregrino-transaction where Sinochem bought a 40% share in the oil field offshore Brazi
Dockwise Ltd. today announces a memorandum of agreement with the China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) to manage their new build, a 50,000 metric ton deadweight vessel that is similar in size to the Dockwise vessel the Black Marlin. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered in February 2012.
Subsea 7 Inc, one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, announced today that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract by BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. for the Andrew Area Development Project in the UK sect
