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Expro Bolsters Well Construction and Intervention Offer with Coretrax Buy

Feb 13, 2024

Oilfield services provider Expro has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire well integrity and production optimization company Coretrax from an investment group led by Buckthorn Partners for $210 million.Subject to customary closing conditions and working capital adjustments…

Valeura Buys Nong Yao Field’s FSO Aurora and Expands Wassana Drilling Campaign

Feb 13, 2024

Valeura Energy has bought the Nong Yao field’s FSO Aurora for $19 million, and expanded the drilling program at its Wassana field in light of favorable initial results.In a February 13 update shared by the company, Valeura said it had exercised…

Oil Industry, Green Groups Challenge Biden Offshore Drilling Plan

Feb 12, 2024

Oil and gas companies and environmental groups on Monday filed dueling legal challenges to the Biden administration's five-year plan to offer drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico.The petitions to a U.S. appeals court come four months after…

Baron Oil Schedules Site Survey at Timor-Leste Gas Field

Feb 12, 2024

Baron Oil, through its fully owned subsidiary SundaGas Banda Unipessoal, has awarded contracts for the site survey at the planned drilling location for the Chuditch-2 appraisal well, offshore Timor-Leste.Site survey operations at the gas field…

Altera Hires DOF to Install Voyageur Spirit FPSO Offshore Ivory Coast

Feb 12, 2024

Altera Infrastructure has hired DOF to install Voyageur Spirit floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit as well as one floating storage unit (FSO) at Eni-operated Baleine oil field offshore Ivory Coast.The project includes the complete installation of seabed mooring systems…

US EPA Announces Intent to Fund Methane Reduction Projects

Feb 11, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a Notice of Intent to make funds available to help measure and reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sectors.This funding from the Inflation…

BW Opal FPSO Starts Taking Final Shape Ahead of Barossa Assignment

Feb 09, 2024

FPSO leasing company BW Offshore has made progress on the topside module integration for the newbuild floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit BW Opal, that will be deployed at Santos' Barossa gas project, offshore Australia.The…

China Puts First ‘Home-Made’ Subsea Xmas Tree Into Operation

Feb 09, 2024

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has put into operation the first domestically developed subsea Xmas tree.CNOOC’s subsea Xmas tree is 3.5 meters long, 3.2 meters wide and 3 meters high, with an overall weight of nearly 22 tons…

Trident Terminates Island Innovator Rig Contract Offshore Equatorial Guinea

Feb 09, 2024

The contract for the Island Drilling’s semi-submersible Island Innovator rig has been terminated by Trident Energy due to safety concerns, putting the drilling campaign at the Block G, offshore Equatorial Guinea, on pause.The decision to terminate…

CRP Subsea Secures ‘Sizeable’ Supply Deal for GoM Ultra-Deepwater Oil Field

Feb 09, 2024

CRP Subsea, an AIS company, has been awarded a ‘sizable’ contract from a major engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) company for ultra-deepwater oilfield development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.The contract entails the…

Russia's Arctic LNG 2 Last Line is on Hold

Feb 08, 2024

The third and the last train of the Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia has been put on hold but the second train is likely to be installed, the head of stakeholder TotalEnergies' said.The liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Russian Arctic has faced challenges from U…

Norway's Sverdrup Oilfield to Start Decline in About a Year

Feb 08, 2024

Production at the Equinor-operated Johan Sverdrup oilfield, the North Sea's largest, is expected to start declining from peak levels in about a year, partner Aker BP said on Thursday.Sverdrup's production was ramped up last year to 755,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd)…

Exxon Mobil to Exit Equatorial Guinea

Feb 08, 2024

Exxon Mobil Corp said on Thursday it will exit Equatorial Guinea in the second quarter of this year, when the oil major will transfer its remaining investments in the country to the local government.Reuters reported in 2022 that Exxon had decided to leave the country once its licenses expired…

EthosEnergy Scoops Harbour Energy Deal for Production Assets in North Sea

Feb 08, 2024

EthosEnergy has signed a five-year master service agreement (MSA) with Harbour Energy for maintenance and support services across three production assets in the North Sea.The agreement, with an option to extend, will see EthosEnergy becoming…

DNV Updates ‘Go-To Standard’ for Offshore Energy Operations

Feb 08, 2024

DNV has published a substantial revision to the ‘go-to standard’, DNV-ST-N001, for the design and planning of marine operations for the transport, installation and removal of offshore wind farms, subsea cables and oil and gas assets.The new…

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