BBL Company, established to design, construct, operate and exploit the BBL pipeline, has invited tenders for the BBL Offshore Pipeline Survey 2015. The survey will include acoustic inspections, bathymetric surveys and visual inspections of approximately 230km of the offshore pipeline which transport
U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources called for expanded energy exploration and production in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in a joint letter with Senators Begich, D-Alaska, Warner, D-Va., and Manchin, D-W.Va., to Secretary of t
Cue Energy Resources Ltd (Cue) has been advised by OMV New Zealand Ltd (OMV), the Operator of permit PEP 51313, that at 06:00 hours (local time) on Friday 1st August 2014, the Whio-1 well was drilling ahead at a depth of 1,049m MDRT in the 16″ hole section. Whio-1 is being drilled from the semi-subm
The project for construction of the deep-water berth 1-e, behind which the Brooklyn-Kiev company’s grain transshipment complex with a capacity of 4.5 million tons is being built, will be implemented in 2015. The head of the Administration of Seaports of Ukraine (ASU), Andrii Amelin, announced this o
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a contract worth $4.3 million for multi-client data offshore the Faroe Islands. The agreement includes both late sales of the existing multi-client dataset acquired by EMGS in 2012 (the Brugdan-Rosebank Line) and pre-funding of an extension of the
When Aberdeen-based Diamond Offshore wanted to add new functionality to the existing helideck monitoring system on the Ocean Guardian drilling rig in the North Sea, Fugro developed and delivered a fully integrated, user-friendly solution to fulfil the requirements. Severe weather conditions in the N
Construction of a project for emergency streambank protection along the Connecticut River in Middletown, Conn., will be completed under the terms of a $1,282,550.00 contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. The construction will be conducted during the Conn
Minister for Natural Resources, Lands and Water Kevin Humphries and Member for Coffs Harbor Andrew Fraser have announced that major dredging of the Coffs Harbor outer harbor has finished, with 30,000 cubic metres of sand transferred to Park Beach. “The sand nourishment of Park Beach and dune re-prof
Honeywell Process Solutions has announced it will upgrade process control and alarm management systems at the Molikpaq platform on the Sakhalin shelf, Russia, to improve safety, reliability and operational efficiency. The Molikpaq platform, owned by Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. Ltd., celebrated it
Circle Oil Plc, the Middle East and Africa focused oil and gas exploration, development and production company, provides the following update on the EMD-1 exploration well, offshore Tunisia. The well was spud on 8 June 2014 and drilled to 753 metres MD after which the 20 inch casing was run and succ
French Electricity Transmission Network (RTE) is inviting tenders for safety consultancy services. Namely, RTE is seeking a contractor to coordinate health and safety protection during the cable laying in waters off French coast. Covered by this tender are four offshore wind projects awarded during
Ensco plc has reported a loss of $5.07 per diluted share in the second quarter 2014 compared to earnings of $1.55 per diluted share in the second quarter 2013. The loss from discontinued operations for second quarter 2014, which includes a $546 million pre-tax loss on impairment for four floaters th
The Government of the Republic of Cyprus and representatives of the JV Eni/KOGAS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This preliminary agreement is aimed at investigating areas of cooperation related to Cyprus potential gas resources valorization, with priority to the onshore LNG option. Eni i
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and Genesis Energy, L.P. have announced that their jointly owned crude oil gathering pipeline serving the Lucius production area in southern Keathley Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico is now mechanically complete and began earning revenues July 1, 2014. Constructed and o
