Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and production company, whose shares are quoted in London (AIM) and Dublin (ESM), provides a technical update on the Barryroe oil discovery in the North Celtic Sea Basin, offshore Ireland. Providence (80%) operates Barryroe on behalf of
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed two five-year contracts with Island Offshore Management AS to supply Light Well Intervention (LWI) services for use by Statoil in the North Sea, contingent on approval from Statoil’s partners. Each contract contains options for two, two-year extens
A project by the Energy Technologies Institute to identify ways of providing a cost effective deployment of tidal stream technologies at commercial scale in UK waters, has been announced at All-Energy by Charles Hendry, the Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The Tidal
The Board of Directors of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad announced that SC Projects Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in Australia, had received the Award from Origin Energy Resources Ltd for the Origin Otway Phase 3 Development. The Origin Otway Phase 3 Development will
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a request to determine whether there is competitive interest in the construction of a transmission system between the Rhode Island coastline and Block Island, an important step in evaluating a transmission project proposed by Deepwater Wind that would del
Langlee Wave Power is preparing for a full scale demonstrator project that will launch in Norway next year. The renewable energy company has secured £1.8 million (18 million NOK) for the year-long test of its E1 Wave Energy Converter. Innovation Norway, the Norwegian Government’s organisation for in
TGS has commenced acquisition of a 3D multi-client wide azimuth (WAZ) survey covering over 3,500 km2 in the Gulf of Mexico. The survey, Independence WAZ 3D, continues TGS’ Constitution group of WAZ projects, including Freedom, Liberty and Justice, which together total 27,622 km2 in the deep water Gu
Technip was awarded by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) two subsea contracts in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, worth a total amount of €105 million. Technip’s contracts scope includes the procurement and construction of two 16’’ rigid pipelines (9.2 and 8.6 kilometers) for the first project, and the develo
This summer, a hovercraft will embark upon a research voyage from Svalbard to the North Pole. This will be the first and the northernmost polar expedition undertaken with such a vessel. ”Never before has there been a Norwegian scientific expedition so far north. Not even Nansen or Amundsen made it t
AGR has been awarded a well management contract from international upstream exploration and production company, Cooper Energy Tunisia Bargou (CTEB). This will see AGR perform the planning, execution and post-drilling activities for a one well programme in the Gulf of Hammamet, offshore of Tunisia. S
The first of 80 monopiles for the Meerwind Süd / Ost project leaves the AMBAU plant in Cuxhaven. Weighing nearly 570 tonnes, the first monopile for the offshore wind park project Meerwind Süd / Ost has left the AMBAU plant in Cuxhaven. AMBAU is producing 80 foundation sets for the wind park, compris
Statoil and partner Petoro have agreed to apply subsea gas compression on the Gullfaks South field. This technological leap forward represents an important milestone in the efforts to improve recovery from this and other gas fields. This technology adds 22 million barrels of oil equivalent to the pr
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provides data that will help researchers better understand the Arctic Ocean’s car
Jumbo’s engineers and the crew of HLV Jumbo Jubilee have successfully transported and discharged fourteen of the twenty-five MOF caissons for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project on Barrow Island, Australia. So far the operation was performed as planned with respect to every detail: safety, environme
