Xcite Energy has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Norway's Aibel, setting out the principles for executing the engineering, procurement and construction self installing platform for its UK North Sea Bentley heavy oil field. The platform…
North-England based Osbit Power (OP) has supplied a bespoke cable handling system to Technip Offshore Wind, to support Technip's cable installation operations at Dong Energy’s Westermost Rough offshore wind farm. Osbit says the modular…
Total E&P UK has picked Technip to perform work on the West of Shetland Edradour subsea development. The development will form part of a new West of Shetland hub, taking in the Laggan-Tormore, Edradour, and Glenlivit fields, all…
McDermott International has completed Ayatsil-B, one of Pemex’s four drilling platforms for use in the Mexican national’s Ayatsil-Tekel heavy oil field. The Houston-based company provided engineering, procurement, fabrication, pre-commissioning…
The US DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Photo: Los Alamos National Laboratory. Recent developments in subsea umbilicals technology were highlighted at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)…
UK-based exploration junior Enegi Oil says a self-installing floating tower (SIFT) would be the best development option for the central North Sea Phoenix discovery. Enegi’s preference for a SIFT follows a work program by Azimuth Limited…
The Genel Energy-operated Hagar Qim-1 exploration well in Area 4, offshore Malta, has been plugged and abandoned after finding no hydrocarbons. The well was drilled to the Eocene using the Noble Paul Romano (pictured), which will…
OMV (Norge) has made an oil dioscvery on the 7324/7-2 Hanssen well, in production license 537, in the Barents Sea. The Hanssen discovery was made about 7km northwest of the 7324/8-1 Wisting Central oil discovery and about 315km north of Hammerfest…
A cost reduction program has meant Total has now decided to move forward with its West of Shetland Edradour subsea development, the French oil major said today. Edradour, in Block 206/4a, in about 300m water depth, 75km northwest of the Shetlands…
Mexican national Pemex will pump an additional US$6 billion into its beleaguered Cantarell oilfield to maintain its current production levels, Reuters has reported. The heavy oilfield, located about 80km off Ciudad del Carmen in the Bay of Campeche…
PEMEX's Cantarell Administrator, Miguel Ángel Lozada Aguilar, said yesterday that the company will invest $6 billion in 2017 in order to maintain current production levels at the Cantarell field over the next decade, according to Reuters…
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, has entered into a joint development project (JDP) with South Korea’ s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to develop the industry’ s first LNG-fueled drillship…
DEH cable being placed into the traditional protection system, which is a labor and time intensive process. Images from Nexans. Exploration and production in harsher environments and deeper waters…
TE Connectivity Ltd. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the SEACON group, a worldwide provider of underwater connector technology and systems (map of SEACON Group locations at right). The El Cajon, California-based…
Woodside announced that the Toro-1 exploration well in permit WA-430-P has intersected approximately 150m gross gas and 65m net gas within the Mungaroo Formation target. The Toro-1 well was drilled to a total depth of 3724m, referenced from the rig rotary table…
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