The Leviathan field consortium has signed a preliminary deal with BG Group to export up to 3.75Tcf of natural gas over a 15-year period to the UK major’s LNG plant in Idku, Egpyt, operator Noble Energy announced. Under the terms of the non-binding letter of intent (LOI)…
Reflecting the overall trends of the industry to go ever-deeper, companies are now attaining first oil through advanced, specialized methods and technologies. GTL FPSO rendering from DSME. Companies’ reaches are ever-lengthening…
INTECSEA will expand into New Zealand, choosing Philip Furr to lead the upstream offshore and subsea business in the country as its new offshore and subsea manager, the company announced on 25 June 2014. Furr will be based in the New Plymouth office…
Inpex’s Australian Ichthys LNG project has reached 50% completion less than two-and-a-half years after its final investment decision was made, the Japanese operator announced on 25 June 2014. The company said that the semisubmersible pipelay…
BATS Wireless, a provider of wireless stabilization, optimization, and tracking systems, announced the development of enhanced technology focused on solving connectivity problems that frequently plague deep and ultra-deepwater FPSO, FSO and drillship operations…
UK oil and gas engineering firm, FES International, has secured a US$2.5million contract to supply its automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) to NOV Flexibles, for use by Subsea 7 on the Western Isles Development (WID) project in the northern North Sea area…
Deeper and more difficult reservoirs are demanding different concepts offshore West Africa, including tension leg platforms. Jérôme Iacovella and Pauline Beraud discuss the options. The Moho Nord TLP design…
UK-based exploration and production firm Ithaca Energy has agreed to buy non-operated stakes in three producing fields from Sumitomo Corporation. The deal, worth about US$170 million, will see Ithaca take a further 20% interest in the Shell-operated central North Sea Cook field…
The Oyo-8 development well, located offshore Nigeria in OML 120, was spudded on 15 June 2014, operator CAMAC Energy Inc. announced. The Oyo-8 well, which CAMAC Energy owns and operates with 100% interest, lies within the Oyo field, which…
Eni Norge AS awarded DNV GL a framework agreement for the supply of inspection services to the Goliat platform in the Barents Sea. The term of the contract is three years, with an option for a two-year extension. The assignment consists of…
Total’s CLOV deepwater oil development offshore Angola in Block 17, began production on schedule, the French company announced on 12 June. The development is expected to reach daily production capacity of 160,000bbl in the coming months…
Dutch floating platform leaser SBM Offshore NV will not participate in the upcoming Petrobras Tartaruga Verde and Libra tenders, the company announced 12 June, adding that the decision resulted from conversations held between the two giants on 28 May…
Premier Oil's central North Sea Catcher field development plan has been approved by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. The Catcher area is expected to produce 96MM boe, with a peak production rate of around 50,000 bo/d. The…
Research into second-order rolling on floating LNG vessels has led a joint industry project (JIP) involving 19 companies, including majors, and picked up an industry award. The JIP is being managed by Bureau Veritas and follows a paper…
First production from Lundin’s Brynhild subsea tieback development has been set back to due commissioning issues on the Haewene Brim FPSO. Brynhild, which sits in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, will be a four-well subsea tieback to Bluewater’s Haewene Brim…
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