Offshore Asia News - page 177


Ophir restarts at Bualuang off Thailand

Sep 13, 2016

Ophir Energy restarted production at the Bualuang field in the Gulf of Thailand on 2 September after a 10-day shut down, following the completion of the final tie-in work of a water debottlenecking project. This was a highly complex brownfield…

CNOOC starts at Weizhou

Sep 12, 2016

CNOOC Ltd. started production at the Weizhou 6-9/6-10 comprehensive adjustment project in the South China Sea. The Weizhou field is in the Beibu Gulf at about 35m water depth. In addition to fully utilizing the existing facilities of Weizhou 6-9/6-10…

ExxonMobil, Oil Search take PNG stake

Sep 12, 2016

Supermajor ExxonMobil and independent Oil Search have taken stakes in two deepwater licenses offshore Papua New Guinea, in the southwest Pacific.  The move will see the two firms each take a 40% stake in the PPL 373 and PPL 375 licenses from Gini Energy…

Bumi appoints ex-SBM exec as acting CFO

Sep 09, 2016

Bumi Armada’s chief financial officer (CFO) Kenneth Murdoch, will step down from his role on 17 November 2016. Pierre Savy has been nominated as the acting CFO and will start in his new role with immediate effect. Murdoch will support Savy during this transition period…

Mermaid inks Indonesia, Malaysia work

Sep 09, 2016

Thailand's Mermaid Maritime has won two contracts worth some US$5.1 million in Southeast Asia. The company said the first contract, scheduled to begin in Q1 2017, is with an international upstream company for installation works in the Natuna Sea…

SapuraKencana lands US$65 million in series of contracts

Sep 01, 2016

SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad has inked a series of several new contracts with a combined value of approximately US$64.5 million (RM264 million) for work offshore Malaysia and Vietnam. The contract will be carried out by the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary…

Keeping afloat

Sep 01, 2016

The market for floating production systems may have stalled, but FPSs will still be a key part of the offshore technology tool kit, outlines Douglas-Westwood’s Ben Wilby. The FPSO Cidade de Saquarema…

Petronas inks Asian airborne FTG data acquisition

Aug 30, 2016

Petronas has awarded Bell Geospace and Onyx Engineering a contract for 3D multi-client full tensor gradiometry (FTG) data acquisition, processing and interpretative services that will cover approximately 198,900sq km offshore Peninsular Malaysia…

Keppel to deliver Bumi's Armada Kraken

Aug 29, 2016

Singapore-based Keppel Offshore & Marine is on track to deliver the Armada Kraken floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to Bumi Armada, marking the Malaysian oilfield service company's entry into the North Sea. The Armada Kraken…

SapuraKencana, Sparrows form partnership

Aug 25, 2016

Sparrows Group formed a partnership with SapuraKencana Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad to collaborate in the provision of offshore and onshore crane services including manufacturing, supply, operations…

MISC inks Chevron Benchamas 2 work

Aug 23, 2016

MISC Berhad has entered the Thailand offshore oil and gas market after winning a US$230 million, 10-year deal with Chevron for the lease and operations of a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO). MISC’s wholly-owned subsidiary…

GE inks ONGC subsea deal

Aug 23, 2016

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), awarded a multimillion dollar contract to GE Oil & Gas to provide an estimated 55 subsea wellheads (SG5) over the next three years for ONGC’s offshore drilling campaign, in shallow to medium waters offshore India…

Woodside prepares for 2017 Myanmar drilling campaign

Aug 19, 2016

Woodside Petroleum is preparing for its Myanmar drilling campaign as soon as next year, after identifying 2.4 Tcf of gas in the area earlier this year. Coleman. Image from Woodside. “Our…

BP's ACG hits 3 billion bbl

Aug 18, 2016

UK supermajor BP has hit a milestone on 15 August at its Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli field offshore Azerbaijan, by producing 3 billion bbl since the start of production from the Chirag platform in 1997. ACG is a complex of six production platforms: Chirag-1…

Noble adds to stacked list

Aug 17, 2016

Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache. Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble…

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