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Sembmarine SLP expands

Jan 27, 2014

Offshore engineering, construction, and support services firm Sembmarine SLP is investing in additional facilities in Lowestoft and Aberdeen. In Lowestoft, the company's Offshore Services Group has just moved into new premises at Newcombe House…

Ramboll wins Caspian FEED

Jan 27, 2014

Russia’s Lukoil has commissioned Ramboll to perform pre-front end engineering and design (FEED) studies for the Yuri S. Kuvykin field in the Russian sector of the north Caspian Sea. Ramboll’s work will focus on a drilling complex and topside living quarters…

Wind researchers collaborate

Jan 27, 2014

The UK's National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SP). The MoU see the two parties agree to further collaborative R&D activities and to establish a formalized strategic partnership…

Bualuang repairs delayed

Jan 27, 2014

Bad weather has slowed work to replace riser sections damaged when an FPSO came off station.  The Rubicon Vantage FPSO drifted into an exclusion zone designed to protect the Bualuang oil field production infrastructure in the Gulf of Thailand in bad weather…

Pemex, Lukoil sign cooperation agreement

Jan 25, 2014

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Emilio Lozoya, General Director of Mexico’s Pemex, signed a cooperation agreement today at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The document was signed in the presence of Enrique Peña Nieto…

Pemex to export Olmeca crude to Europe

Jan 24, 2014

Mexican state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos says it will not begin exporting high-quality Olmeca crude to Europe until the second half of February. Pemex said on 6 Jan, that exports of the extra-light Olmeca would begin in January…

Petrobras to drill Libra 2H 2014

Jan 24, 2014

Drilling operations will begin in 2H 2014 on two wells in the giant Libra field off Brazil following approval of the field’s 2014 working and investment plan. The Brazilian national Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), along with Pré-Sal Petróleo S…

Cuba: CFR delegation discusses drilling

Jan 24, 2014

Multilateral meetings between Cuba and the US are becoming more frequent, although they often fly under the radar. Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Relations, CubaMinRex, recently hosted a delegation from the US-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)…

JDR wins FMC umbilicals supply

Jan 24, 2014

FMC Technologies awarded JDR a contract to design and supply umbilicals and reelers for an intervention workover control system (IWOCS) for Total's giant Egina field development, West Africa. JDR will provide 20km of JDR IWOCs umbilicals…

Pocket OSV takes next step

Jan 24, 2014

A UK-based marine renewables consultancy has signed a memorandum of understanding with a German firm to finance and built a new construction vessel, the Hi Flo 4. Mojo Maritime, based in Falmouth, signed the MOU with Hammonia Reederei GmbH & Co…

FMC wins Pemex contract for wellheads

Jan 24, 2014

FMC Technologies Inc.  announced today that it signed a 3-year contract with Pemex Exploration and Production to manufacture and supply surface wellheads to support drilling and well maintenance programs in the Gulf of Mexico. The award…

Iran woos western oil co's

Jan 24, 2014

Tehran’s leadership has promised a new, attractive investment model for oil contracts by September, to woo Western business back into Iran. The pledge was made at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday.  According to the Financial Times…

Ramform Atlas named in Japan

Jan 24, 2014

Petroleum Geophysical Services ASA (PGS) has launched its second Ramform Titan class vessel, the Ramform Atlas, at a naming ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan today. The vessel will typically tow a network of several hundred thousand recording sensors over an area greater than 12sq km…

Growth for Maritime Developments

Jan 24, 2014

Back deck equipment firm Maritime Developments has launched a new equipment hire division. The company, which has operations in Aberdeen and Peterhead, is on track to increase turnover to £12 million for its year-end in March 2014, a projected rise of 110% on its 2013 figure of £5…

UK invites North Sea bids

Jan 24, 2014

The UK Government has opened the country's 28th offshore oil and gas exploration licensing round, amid concerns about a slow-down in the basin.  Wood Mackenzie’s annual review of UK upstream oil and gas said capital investment continued to increase…

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