Wood Group is leading five new joint industry projects (JIPs) which will use the company's extensive subsea experience to solve industry-wide challenges. These international projects, which will run 2015-2018, will see Wood Group Kenny (WGK) work with several oil and gas operators…
Premier Oil is aiming to award front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the North Falklands Sea Lion project in 4Q this year, partner Rockhopper Exploration says. Sea Lion is about 220km north of the Falkland Islands in 450m water depth…
Magma Global entered into a joint development agreement with BP and Subsea 7 to qualify Magma’s carbon fiber m-pipe for subsea pipelines. The program is also supported by the National Composites Centre (NCC) and Innovate UK, the government…
Image: Lagos shore end landing/Global Marine Systems Global Marine Systems has just completed a major fiber optic installation project in the Gulf of Guinea. This telecommunications project for customer Huawei Marine Networks (HMN)…
Husky Energy has commenced production from a second oil well at the South White Rose extension drill center offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The two wells are expected to ramp up to a combined net peak production of 15,000 b/d. South…
Bibby Offshore, a subsea services provider, has delivered two multimillion dollar decommissioning contracts to the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Endeavour Energy appointed Bibby Offshore to perform operations in the Renee and Rubie fields…
GE Oil & Gas signed a framework agreement with Statoil to provide subsea operations services for the Statoil’s operated fields Tordis, Vigdis, Snorre and Troll, located northwest of Stavanger. The agreement will be effective on 1 October 2015…
Oceaneering International has secured a contract from Shell to supply umbilicals for the deepwater Appomattox development located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico. The order is for electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilicals…
Expro has been awarded two contracts together worth US$25 million in the North Sea. In one contract, Wintershall has awarded Expro a five-year contract for work on its recently approved Maria development project, in the Haltenbanken area…
Ezra’s subsea services division, EMAS AMC, finalized a contract with BHP Billiton for the Angostura phase 3 development offshore Trinidad and Tobago in the eastern Trinidadian sector of the Venezuela basin. The total scope of work includes the project management…
GE Oil & Gas has signed a framework agreement with Norway's Statoil to provide subsea operations services for the company's operated fields Tordis, Vigdis, Snorre and Troll, located north west off the coast of Stavanger. GE Oil & Gas will run the services from their Dusavik site…
Private equity backed Proserv Group has bought Aberdeen-based subsea acoustic positioning firm Nautronix. Employing 120 people, Nautronix is recognised for its through-water digital acoustic wireless communications and positioning systems…
Only two months after announcing the launch of their expanded test facilities, Hexham based Red Marine has announced another expansion of its testing capabilities with the development of a new high capacity test rig. The 200-tonne capacity…
Norway's Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approved plans for Wintershall’s US$1.8 billion (NOK 15.3 billion) Maria development, offshore Norway. Maria development plan. Image from Wintershall. The Maria field…
Japan's INPEX has submitted a revised development plan for the Abadi LNG project offshore Indonesia. Inpex says greater volumes of gas than thought have been confirmed, leading to a larger floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) proposal now being developed…