The MacArtney Group has signed an official representative agreement with Geomarine – an Italian geophysical and geotechnical marine survey service provider, and a part of the DIMMS Group. The two companies will team up to offer underwater technology solutions and services in primarily Italy and Moza
Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) is in the process of selecting the company that will perform dredging of the Maputo Port access channel. The dredging of the channel, that will increase its current 11 meter draft to 14.2 meters, is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2015 after a contrac
Operator Statoil has together with PL218 partners made a gas discovery in the Snefrid Nord prospect in the Norwegian Sea. According to Statoil, the discovery is an important contribution to the Aasta Hansteen field development project and Polarled pipeline utilisation. “The Snefrid Nord discovery in
BG Group has today announced that the Petrojarl Knarr floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel had started production from the Knarr oil field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The FPSO has been leased from Teekay Corporation and is moored approximately 120 kilometres off the Norwe
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will today, March 18, in New Orleans, attend and open bids at an oil and gas lease sale offering 41.2 million acres for exploration and development in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Secretary Jewell will hold a news
Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum informed that an LNG supply deal with Russia’s Gazprom has been finalized.
Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum informed that an LNG supply deal with Russia’s Gazprom has been finalized.
Chevron’s massive Big Foot drilling and production platform sailed away from Corpus Christi, Texas this past weekend and is on its way to the offshore location in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Tension Leg Platform, able to accommodate 200 people, will be the deepest TLP installation at 5,330 ft (1,6
Rotork said that its Rotork GO gas-over-oil actuators have been supplied for vital failsafe valve control duties on a new cryogenic LNG pipeline in Venezuela.
Rotork said that its Rotork GO gas-over-oil actuators have been supplied for vital failsafe valve control duties on a new cryogenic LNG pipeline in Venezuela.
KrisEnergy has announced that the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig has started drilling of the Rossukon-2 exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, where the Rossukon oil accumulation was discovered in 2009. Rossukon-2 lies 1 km northeast of the Rossukon-1 discovery well. The well is planned to re
GE has secured an $850 million deal across its oil & gas business for the supply of equipment to the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) block, Ghana. According to GE, this order incorporates both turbomachinery and subsea elements, with the first shipment planned for Q4 2015. Further shipments are pl
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), through its subsidiary Lundin Norway, operator of PL338C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 16/1-24, in a prospect named Gemini, in the North Sea. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 10 km southwest of the Edvard Grieg field in the central par
Petrobras has announced the start-up of platform P-61 in Papa Terra field, in the southern tip of Campos Basin, 110 km off the coast of Brazil and at a water depth (distance between water surface and sea floor) ranging from 400 to 1,400 meters. Set up at a water depth of 1,200 meters, platform P-61
