InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed two major offshore projects for China Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC). To extend the life of the Hai Yang Shi You III FPSO, the first project involved full mooring system replacement in the Panyu field…
Shell made a large exploration discovery at the Leopard-1 well, offshore Gabon, West Africa. The exploration well encountered a substantial gas column with around 200m net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir. Leopard-1 is located in license BCD10 approximately 145km off the Gabonese coast…
Sembcorp Marine's subsidiaries Sembmarine SLP and Jurong Shipyard have secured offshore energy related contracts worth at a combined S$222 million (US$177 million). The firm's 70% owned UK-based firm Sembmarine SLP is to build a new offshore…
Australia’s Karoon Gas is planning to begin its drilling campaign the second week of November when the company will drill two to four appraisal and exploration wells off Brazil. The Olinda Star. From Karoon…
Petrobras has begun production from FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba, located in Block BM-S-11 of the giant Lula field. The start-up represents the first in the Iracema Sul area of the presalt Santos basin, located 300km off the coasts of the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states…
Watch as Teekay Corp.’s largest project, the FPSO Petrojarl Knarr, sails away from South Korea to Norway. It took three Fairmount Marine tugs 61 days to tow the FPSO off Norway where it is deployed in the Knarr oil and gas field…
CNOOC Ltd. began production on its Enping 24-2 oilfield in the Pearl River Mouth Basin off the South China Sea. Enping 24-2 has an average water depth of approximately 86m to 96m. The main production facilities include one drilling and production platform…
A plan to develop the Ruche fields in the Duffafu license offshore Gabon using a floating production, storage and offloading vessel has been approved by the country’s authorities. The project, operated by Harvest Natural Resources, will see the Ruche A (formally Ruche)…
Odebrecht and Teekay received a letter of intent from the Libra consortium to charter an FPSO for the extended well test campaign in the Libra area of the Santos Basin pre-salt, offshore Brazil, Petrobras announced on 10 October 2014. The…
Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum and joint venture partners made the final investment decisions to develop the Aje Cenomanian oil reservoir in the OML 113 license in Nigeria. Map of the Aje field. From Panoro…
Shell began its first deepwater development in Malaysia with the Gumusut-Kakap floating platform. Shell's Gumusut-Kakap. From Shell. The Gumusut-Kakap field is off the coast of Malaysia…
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (Keppel O&M) wholly owned subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd and Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd were awarded contracts worth approximately US$120 million. From Keppel Bumi…
Real-time metocean data transmitted by a Fugro SEAWATCH Wavescan buoy is supporting Technip's construction program on BP's Quad 204 project West of Shetland. The work is Technip’s largest UK North Sea contract to date and involves replacing…
Technology is there for companies to use and take advantage of, but is it being used as much as it could be to gain insight into operations. Gregory Hale takes a look. With the digital oilfield…
SBM Offshore’s Paula Farquharson-Blengino provides an inside look at the company’s Angola shipyard, a joint venture between partners Sonangol and DSME. Paenal is the first yard in West Africa with the capacity to facilitate mega FPSO vessels…