Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) started the Bréanann 3D seismic program, located in the Frontier Exploration Licence 3/14 in the Porcupine Basin, Irish Atlantic, on June 27 for the Australian energy company Woodside. Woodside is the operator of licences FEL 3/14 and FEL 4/14 in the Irish Atlantic with
Goodloe Marine Inc. of Wimauma, Florida, has won a $6.2 million contract for pipeline dredging of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), Texas, Channel to Victoria. The contractor is required to remove 1.3 million cubic yards of material located along the lower and middle reached of the GIWW, Channe
Oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil has informed that the TEN project, offshore Ghana, is expected to deliver first oil within the next three to six weeks. Tullow said on Thursday that the Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) Project off the west coast of Ghana remains on schedule and within bu
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) expects to take Transocean’s drilling rig and start drilling the Skipper appraisal well, in the UK North Sea, in the second half of July 2016. IOG will take Transocean’s 1974-built Sedco 704 semi-submersible drilling rig on contract for the Skipper appraisal which lies
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Draft General Reevaluation Report (GRR) on the next phase of the Fire Island to Montauk Point (FIMP) Project will be released in mid-July. The announcement was made yesterday by Congressman Lee Zeldin, member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee,
Quadrant Energy has decided to replace the previously proposed Palmerston-1 well for Driftwood-1 well in the WA-320-P permit in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. A commitment well is due in WA-320-P by the fourth quarter 2016. According to Tap Oil, a partner in the permit with 9.778%
Swedish independent oil company Lundin Petroleum has resolved on the new shares issues and share transfer to Norwegian oil major, Statoil, in order to complete the Edvard Grieg field stake acquisition. Statoil already previously acquired 37,101, 561 shares in Lundin Petroleum at a total purchase pri
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has extended rig integrity support for the Deepwater Invictus drillship. According to LR, its expertise in blowout preventers (BOPs) and rig integrity will be used to provide confidence in risk management for deepwater drilling and well exploration. “We have had a team supporti
RasGas of Qatar on Wednesday entered into an agreement with EDF of France to supply up to 3 million tons of LNG per year to the Dunkerque terminal.
Norwegian subsea company Ocean Installer has recently completed a mooring recovery and re-installation project for a Gulf of Mexico production facility. According to the company, work location was in ultra-deep water (>2500m) and this is Ocean Installer’s first mooring job at such water depths. The
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company has reportedly launched a tender on Tuesday to hire a third floating storage and regasification unit.
VolkerStevin has been appointed by Cumbria County Council to reconstruct the Port of Workington’s riverside wall, which will replace the existing failing structure. The project involves replacing 170m of anchored sheet steel pile quay wall and capping beam, stabilizing the existing failing quay and
Vard Holdings has agreed to terminate a shipbuilding contract with Rem Offshore in return for compensation. The contract with REM for one offshore construction and anchor handling vessel was entered into in June 2014. Delivery of the vessel was originally scheduled for Q1 2016, but delivery had prev
TGS, a provider of multi-client geoscience data to oil and gas exploration and production companies, has announced the start of the Northwest Shelf Renaissance 2D seismic survey, offshore North West Australia. TGS said on Wednesday that the survey consists of approximately 8,000km of long offset, br
