CNOOC Limited announced today that Liuhua 19-5 gas field has recently commenced production. Liuhua 19-5 is located in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the South China Sea with an average water depth of about 185 meters. This project was designed to share the existing producing facility of Panyu 30-1 g
IEV Holdings Limited (the “Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, “IEV” or the “Group”), announces that its 49% owned associate, IEV (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (“IEV Malaysia”) has been awarded a contract for the decommissioning and towage (the “Project”) of a FPSO from offshore Terengganu in Malay
Scotland’s ability to meet its renewable energy targets will be significantly boosted by the creation of a new Marine Renewables Test Centre at the University of Dundee. The Centre will become a leading facility for the development, design and testing of marine renewable construction materials and p
Continental Energy Corporation (the “Company”) an emerging international energy investment company, announced that its affiliate, VTT Maritime AS (“VTT”), has been awarded a contract valued at US$ 10.3 million by the Norwegian Road Authority (“NorRoad”) for a portion of NorRoad’s planned highway E39
Last month, Veolia Environmental Services, in partnership with Peterson, has been awarded a major North Sea decommissioning project. The project is for decommissioning of subsea equipment decommissioning associated with the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, a part of BP’s Quad204 project. The project w
The investigation of a hydrocarbon leak on Oseberg A in the North Sea on 17 June 2013 has identified serious breaches of the regulations. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has now notified operator Statoil of an order. Direct and underlying causes Wells on the Oseberg field centre began to
Chevron Corporation announced that its U.K. subsidiary, Chevron North Sea Limited, has reached a final investment decision and received approval from the U.K. government to proceed with the development of the Alder Field in the Central North Sea. The project has a planned design capacity of 110 mill
The Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia (Roshydromet) has embarked on a widespread program of modernization of its environmental instrumentation and infrastructure. Partly funded by the World Bank, the project will result in an enormous improvement in the abil
Renewable energy can be generated by harnessing the power from the tides, which can be predicted hundreds of years in advance. But the predicted energy gains from certain schemes have been overestimated, according to a team of researchers in Liverpool. Tidal range power generation is one way of extr
On Friday, January 3, the offshore supply vessel (OSV) Go Electra berthed at the Westhof Quay, BOW Terminal, to mobilize for Thornton Bank offshore wind farm. In co-operation with NorthSea group Zierikzee, BOW Terminal performed the reception and re-loading of all kind of offshore diving equipment o
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) announced new discoveries during the ROV expedition which was carried out in the final week of August last year in the Norwegian Sea. “We knew there was basalt in the Norwegian Sea – but we were still surprised when we found 100-metre thick columnar basalt under
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum GmbH & Co. KG has invited tenders for the provision of offshore wind vessels for Borkum West 2 project. Trianel is looking for vessels which can accommodate and transfer crew to and from the construction site, as well as supply vessels to transfer goods and materials to,
Ezra Holdings Limited (“Ezra” or the “Group”), a leading contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, continued its steady operational growth into 2014, led by the Group’s Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC. For the three months ended 30 November 2013 (
Searcher Seismic in partnership with TGS announces the acquisition of 2,100 km2 Huzzas 3D seismic survey located in the Barrow Sub-basin, offshore Northwest Australia. The data is being acquired by the M/V Geo Caspian using CGG’s BroadSeisTM and BroadSourceTM technologies. Preliminary data will be a
