The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has issued a safety alert regarding gas release hazards, following a compliance and incident data review that turned up 31 incidents by 14 operators in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo from BSEE…
Statoil awarded Transocean a 22-well contract in the Norwegian North Sea for the harsh environment semisubmersible Transocean Spitsbergen with an estimated duration of 33 months; plus two one-well options. The estimated firm backlog associated…
The ROV market isn’t out of the woods yet, with plentiful supply in the market dampening any perceived uptick in activity. But, offshore wind might offer some respite. Elaine Maslin reports (first published in the January 2018 OE, access full issue here)…
The Libra consortium, led by Petrobras, has chosen Modec to charter a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO), the first definitive production system of Mero field, which will be used in the Mero Pilot project (formerly Libra Northwest)…
The Israeli Petroleum Commissioner has awarded Energean Oil & Gas five offshore exploration licenses covering Blocks 12, 21, 22, 23, 31, which were available for bidding in Israel’s first offshore bidding round. Each license has an initial exploration period of three years…
Accurate monitoring of oil and gas production is an increasingly valuable tool for operators and surveillance engineers but, until recently, visibility of data has been almost exclusively available to on-site operators. For those involved in remote surveillance and decision support…
UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) operating costs dropped by 14% in 2016, with operators securing about £1.1 billion reductions in operating expenditure (OPEX), according to the UK Oil & Gas Authority’s (OGA) inaugural report, “Analysis of UKCS Operating Costs in 2016”…
Keppel Offshore & Marine, through its subsidiaries, has inked new contracts froom Petrobras and SOFEC, worth in total about US$96.22 (S$130 million). Keppel Shipyard's contract from SOFEC is for the fabrication of a turret mooring…
Danish oil firm Maersk Oil has published a video with timelapse footage and interviews with key people, showing the main 2017 milestones in the UK North Sea Culzean development. The Culzean field - discovered in 2008 - is in the UK central North Sea…
Subsea firm Ocean Infinity has claimed to have undertaken the deepest dive by multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) commercial known. The feat was achieved on 18 October, when the firm launched six HUGIN AUVs, each with…
German cable firm NKT is testing power cables for a wave power project in Norway. For the project in Norway, NKT has developed a dynamic 1 kV cable as well as a semi-dynamic 24 kV export cable for power export. The cables are currently…
McDermott International has received a fifth contract award under an existing agreement from Saudi Aramco for work on the Safaniya field onshore and offshore Saudi Arabia. Under the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract…
New tax measures aimed at making it more attractive for North Sea oil and gas assets to change hands have been welcomed by industry. In his Budget statement made in the UK Parliament yesterday (22 November), the Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond…
Noble Energy has chosen Gate Energy to provide facility commissioning for the Leviathan platform offshore Israel. The scope includes topside commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution and offshore commissioning services of the production platform…
Wintershall and its partners have been given the green light to start production next month from the Maria field in the Norwegian Sea. Maria development. Source: Wintershall. The development…
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