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Karoon confirms Echidna oil

Apr 20, 2015

Karoon Gas Australia confirmed a 213m gross oil column at its Echidna-1 well offshore Brazil. The Olinda Star. From Karoon. The exploration well is located in the Santos basin…

Venezuela order for Plexus

Apr 17, 2015

UK-based engineering firm Plexus secured its first contract with Cardon IV, a gas license granted by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mines of Venezuela to Eni and Repsol. The contract covers the supply of mudline suspension equipment services for a development well offshore Venezuela…

Ezra subsea inks US$55 million in contracts

Apr 16, 2015

Ezra Holdings’ subsea services division, EMAS AMC, has won multiple new awards from various oil and energy companies worth approximately US$55 million. The Lewek Constellation. From EMAS. The scope of work includes project support…

Valemon opens

Apr 16, 2015

Petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien opened the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea on 16 April. Expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 MMboe. Valemon ribbon cutting…

Wintershall outlines North Sea plans

Apr 16, 2015

Germany's Wintershall is stepping up its activities in the southern North Sea, the company has announced. In addition to an extensive drilling campaign in the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark, the company intends to take its natural gas and crude oil discoveries into the production phase swiftly…

First TLPs for offshore China

Apr 16, 2015

Technip is to help design China's first tension leg platforms (TLPs) under a contract with joint venture partner China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC). Image from CNOOC. The…

GMC completes Energean buoyant tower design

Apr 15, 2015

GMC Ltd. has just completed the basic design of a self-installing buoyant tower for the Prinos field development, located in the northern Aegean Sea, offshore Greece for Energean Oil and Gas. 
 
 Image from GMC Ltd…

WorleyParsons wins Fortuna work

Apr 15, 2015

Ophir Equatorial Guinea awarded WorleyParsons a contract for provision of engineering and project management services for their Equatorial Guinea Block R Project, the Fortuna project. Block R map…

Kongsberg in US$10 million Ichthys contract

Apr 14, 2015

Saipem awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a US$10 million contract for the delivery of subsea structures for the gas export pipeline project of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project. Image from Kongsberg…

WGPSN awarded Enquest contract

Apr 14, 2015

EnQuest awarded Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) a five-year contract to provide engineering, design, construction, procurement and commissioning services to the Thistle, Heather and Northern Producer offshore assets in the North Sea. The contract…

Edvard Grieg topside complete

Apr 14, 2015

The 22,000-tonne topside for the new offshore platform for the Lundin Norway-operated Edvard Grieg field is ready for delivery, in line with the contract awarded three years ago. Image of the Edvard Grieg project…

Subsea 7 wins Petrobras Brazilian work

Apr 13, 2015

Petrobras awarded Subsea 7 a two-year US$200 million contract for continued use of its Seven Seas construction and flex-lay vessel for the installation of flexible lines. The contract work scope will be similar to that of other Subsea…

KrisEnergy awards Lengo work

Apr 13, 2015

KrisEnergy awarded Singapore-based Synergy Engineering the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Lengo gas development offshore East Java, Indonesia. Image of the Lengo platform. From KrisEnergy…

Intecsea takes on Fortuna project

Apr 10, 2015

UK independent Ophir Energy has contracted Australian engineering group WorleyParsons and its subsidiary INTECSEA for engineering and project management services on its Fortuna project in Block R offshore Equatorial Guinea. Ophir has…

Offshore Mexico: the EPC perspective

Apr 09, 2015

OE’s Audrey Leon spoke with Scott Cummins, Senior Vice President, Commercial, McDermott about the opening of Mexico’s oil and gas industry and what effects it will have on both McDermott and the industry at large. Welder…

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