Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2015, organized by Dutch company Navingo BV, has officially opened its doors to thousand of visitors today, in Amsterdam RAI. The event was opened by Coert van Zijll Langhout, Director of Navingo BV and Scarlett Mummery also known as The Offshore Blondie. This
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has decided to conduct an investigation into an oil spill which occurred on Statoil’s Statfjord field in the North Sea on October 8. The oil spill had been observed on the sea close to the OLS B loading buoy on the field at around 08.30 a.m local time. The d
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has decided to conduct an investigation into an oil spill which occurred on Statoil’s Statfjord field in the North Sea on October 8. The oil spill had been observed on the sea close to the OLS B loading buoy on the field at around 08.30 a.m local time. The d
A fire broke out on the Terra Nova FPSO, offshore St. John’s, Canada, on Friday. Suncor, the operator, reported a grease fire from a char boiler in the galley on the FPSO. According to C-NLOPB, the offshore safety watchdog, the fire was extinguished, with no injuries reported. The incident happened
Statoil said that with its partners Petoro and OMV it has started the world´s first wet gas compression on the seabed of the North Sea Gullfaks field.
Associated petroleum gas produced from the northern group of fields owned by Lukoil-Komi started flowing to the Gazprom-owned Sosnogorsk gas processing plant.
Lloyd’s Register Energy’s Training Academy and The Well Academy are working together to develop a new enhanced training program for well control certification. Academy Training Manager and Technical Knowledge Manager for Lloyd’s Register Energy (LRE), Jeroen Bergevoet, pointed out that training staf
Africa may dominate deepwater expenditure in the next five years. This year’s Drilling & Dollars panel during Offshore Energy (October 13-14) focuses on the paradox between the many opportunities for exploration and production offshore Africa and the cold feet of North European SMEs to take the leap
With the S182 design, Ulstein has introduce a new dynamically positioned multipurpose construction vessel suitable for shallow water operations. Main design driver was to develop a very CAPEX friendly DP vessel with good capabilities to support various offshore operations, including cable lay and of
OPEC forecast on Monday that demand for its oil in 2016 would be much higher than previously thought as its strategy of letting prices fall hits U.S. shale oil and other rival supplies, reducing a global surplus.
On Friday morning, Bladt Industries carried out the upending of the jacket foundation for the topside of the Sandbank offshore wind farm’s substation. At Bladt’s quay in Aalborg, the 96 metres tall crane easily upended the two sides for the jacket each weighing 525 tonnes. Once both sides were in up
GeoSea (DEME Group) has completed trials of a jack-up vessel in extreme current flows. The results of the trials confute industry reluctance to deploy jack-up vessels on tidal sites, GeoSea said. The demonstrated workability and reliability create confidence for tidal project developers and open the
GeoSea (DEME Group) has completed trials of a jack-up vessel in extreme current flows. The results of the trials confute industry reluctance to deploy jack-up vessels on tidal sites, GeoSea said. The demonstrated workability and reliability create confidence for tidal project developers and open the
The United States House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to lift the U.S. oil exports ban. According to Energy and Power Subcommittee, the House Rule 702, which would remove restrictions on the export of crude oil from the United States, authored by Representative Joe Barton, was passed by
