Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has started production from the Cidade de Maricá floating production storage offloading unit (FPSO), in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, in addition to the expansion of the country’s longest subsea natural gas pipeline…
Norway-based floating LNG specialist Höegh LNG says it will not engage in further new floating LNG (FLNG) developments, but focus on floating storage, and regasification units (FRSUs). The firm plans to have a fleet of 12 FRSUs by 2019…
The Middle East’s Dana Gas started production at its Zora gas field last month, offshore the Sharjah coastline, United Arab Emirates. Image from Dana Gas. Zora is located in the Sharjah Western offshore concession…
Blackstone and former senior executives of Pride International have partnered to form Clarion Offshore Partners, a platform to provide strategic solutions to the offshore oil and gas drilling and services sector, with a financial commitment from private equity funds managed by Blackstone…
Australia's Woodside Energy has announced a second gas discovery offshore Myanmar just weeks after announcing its first in the newly opened country. Following the discovery, the firm is set to shoot more seismic over its acreage offshore Myanmar…
Parker Bestobell Marine has completed a contract to supply cryogenic globe and check valves made in Sheffield, for Hoegh LNG’s series of five floating storage regasification units (FSRUs) that are being built at Hyundai shipyard (HHI) in South Korea…
The depressed oil price environment is painting a gloomy outlook for North American exploration and production (E&Ps) companies, and further, significant CAPEX cuts are needed in order for the group to demonstrate real financial discipline and align spending more closely with cash flow…
At Subsea Expo, Subsea UK has announced that it will sponsor an initiative which inspires budding subsea engineers for a second year. The body which represents the US$13.1 billion (£9 billion) subsea industry has now committed over $29…
Red Marine, based in Hexham, has completed a qualification testing program on a new vent valve for FMC Technologies. The program to validated the performance of the vent valve against industry standards including ISO 10423 (API 6A). Used during workover operations…
Schedule slippage is an ever-present reality for exploration and production (E&P) projects, especially for the more complex mega-projects, says Norwegian oilfield analysts Rystad. 'In addition to subsurface challenges, above-ground issues…
Jan De Nul Group will install two additional power cables for Saudi Aramco’s Marjan Field, offshore Saudi Arabia, in the Persian Gulf. For the Marjan gas oil separation plant project executed by McDermott, Jan De Nul Group will install two 115 kV cables…
Kosmos Energy announced a “significant” natural gas discovery at its first exploration well offshore Senegal, in addition to memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of the cross-border Greater Tortue complex. The Atwood Achiever…
Golar LNG signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Schlumberger to co-operate on the global development of greenfield, brownfield and stranded gas reserves. Under the MOU, Golar and Schlumberger have agreed to jointly market gas monetization solutions to owners…
Woodside Energy and partner Daewoo International have started drilling their latest exploration well offshore Myanmar just weeks after announcing a gas discovery in the region. The latest well, the Thalin-1 well in Block AD-7, was spudded 20 January…
Two Israeli firms are eying a multi-trillion cubic feet deepwater gas field offshore Israel. According to a resource report by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, the Og field lower sand contains 8.84 Tcf best estimate, unrisked gross prospective…
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