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Massachusetts Maritime Academy Opens Wind Training Facility

Oct 25, 2019

Baker-Polito Administration Celebrates the First-in-the-Nation Offshore Wind Training Facility Located at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. MMA steps out in front to train the professionals who will make the coming wave of domestic offshore wind…

Keenan Leaves Apache Corp

Oct 25, 2019

Oil and gas industry veteran Steven Keenan, who was credited with a high-profile shale discovery for Apache Corp, resigned on Wednesday from his position as senior vice president of worldwide exploration, the company said on Friday.Houston-based…

Eni Hits Record Production as Profit Falls

Oct 25, 2019

Energy group Eni achieved its highest ever oil and gas production rate for a third quarter, softening the blow of lower quarterly earnings because of weak oil and gas prices.The Italian company generates around 90% of its operating profit from its upstream oil and gas business…

KNOC Scales Back North Sea Sale Process

Oct 25, 2019

State-run Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) has scaled back efforts to pull out of the British North Sea, focusing on the sale of its stake in the Tolmount gas project, three industry sources said.Heavily indebted KNOC earlier this year tried to…

Petrobras Says Pre-salt Costs Plummet

Oct 25, 2019

Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras said on Thursday that some of its costs in a key oil-producing region plunged in the third quarter, a positive sign given that the company is making a huge bet on the region.In a securities filing announcing its third-quarter results…

Shell, Exxon to Pay $1.7 Mln for Somalia Block

Oct 25, 2019

Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil have paid $1.7 million to Somalia to lease offshore blocks for 30 years, the country's state news agency reported on Friday.'Shell/Exxon Mobil have paid $1.7 million to Somalia as the preliminary rent for 30 years…

Petrobel Makes Discovery Offshore Egypt

Oct 25, 2019

Italian supermajor Eni said new resources have been discovered in the Abu Rudeis Sidri development lease, in the Gulf of Suez where the operating company Petrobel, equally held by Eni and by national oil company Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)…

Wood Wins Commissioning Work from Apache

Oct 25, 2019

Services firm Wood said it has been awarded a contract with Apache to provide commissioning services to the Beryl Alpha, Beryl Bravo, and Forties Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta platforms located in the UK North Sea.Apache will leverage Wood’s…

Viking Supply Ships Scoops PSV Pair

Oct 25, 2019

Swedish-based Viking Supply Ships (VSS) in partnership with funds managed by Borealis Maritime, has entered into a contract to purchase two platform supply vessels (PSV) currently under construction. In addition to the partial ownership, VSS…

BSO, MOW Ink US Offshore Wind JV

Oct 25, 2019

Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH (BSO) and MidOcean Wind (MOW) have entered into a joint venture to build and operate support vessels for the US offshore wind industry as well as explore opportunities in other sectors of U.S. merchant shipping…

Predictive Maintenance

Oct 25, 2019

Asset managers leveraging advanced sensor technologies, vast pools of stored and processed data, and real-time analytics are able to foresee—and prevent—costly component failures.A recent report from Lloyd’s Register points out that predictive…

Ongoing Reform Lifts Egypt Offshore

Oct 25, 2019

The bounce back of Egypt’s upstream operations continues to gain momentum, attracting additional offshore-focused investments and transactions with latest reports indicating Dubai-based oil and gas company Dragon Oil has received the nod to…

Reaping Wind at Sea: A $1 Trillion Industry

Oct 25, 2019

Offshore wind could become a cornerstone of the world's power supply as steep cost reductions and improved technology unleash the potential of the green energy source, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Friday.Renewables replacing…

Dof Subsea Clinches African Contracts

Oct 25, 2019

Norwegian international subsea operating company DOF Subsea has won two contracts totaling more than 160 vessel days for its offshore vessels Skandi Seven and Skandi Skansen in Africa.Skandi Seven has commenced operations for a repeat international energy company in Angola…

Tullow and Partners Plot Next Steps in Guyana

Oct 24, 2019

Tullow Oil and its partners in the Orinduik block offshore Guyana are plotting their next steps following two discoveries on the closely watched hotspot earlier this year.The London-based operator, which owns 60% working interest in the 1,776-square-kilometer Orinduik block…

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