China’s CNOOC is opening 22 blocks for bids to foreign companies this year. Map of the 22 open blocks, from CNOOC. The 22 blocks cover an area of 47,270sq km, and are available for cooperation between CNOOC and foreign companies…
Keppel Shipyard says it is on track to deliver the Catcher floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to BW Catcher following a naming ceremony of the vessel today (28 April). BW Catcher - the 11th FPSO Keppel has delivered…
Offshore energy industry experts and leaders from across the world came together at NRG Park in Houston 1–4 May for the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). As it has since 1969, the 49th edition of the conference convened professionals…
Total E&P Norge (Total) has chosen Aptomar’s TCMS collaboration and management system to digitalize and manage environmental monitoring and oil spill detection at its Martin Linge field in the North Sea. The TCMS will combine subsea,…
KLAW has developed the Marine2, a new marine breakaway coupling. The Marine2 is 32% shorter and 25% lighter than alternative marine breakaway couplings on the market and is designed to reduce stress on hoses used on offshore hose reel applications…
Lundin Petroleum has gained regulatory consents and approvals to complete the internal reorganization to spin-off its assets in Malaysia, France and the Netherlands into International Petroleum Corp. (IPC). The reorganization was completed on 7 April 2017…
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have been awarded a contract to supply engineering and access to Trendsetter’s patented Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS) in support of an operators’ drilling campaign on a newly sanctioned field development…
A federal court in Brazil has suspended the transfer of Petrobras' stake in the BM-S-8 exploration block, which contains the Carcará field, to Norway's Statoil, and exploration of the field, until further deliberation, the Brazilian state-owned firm announced Monday (17 April)…
BW Offshore has completed a deal with Harvest Natural Resources for its stake in the Dussafu production sharing contract (PSC) offshore Gabon. BW Energy Gabon (BWEG) now holds a 66.67% working interest in the Dussafu PSC, while Panoro Energy holds the remaining 33…
Despite the low cycle that the market is facing, a total of 30 oil and gas projects are expected to start operations in the North Sea by 2020. The UK will lead with 19 projects, followed by Norway with 10 and Denmark with a single project…
Lebanon has extended the deadline for the results of the second pre-qualification round in the country’s first-ever offshore licensing round, to give companies more time to respond to requests from the Lebanese Petroleum Administration (LPA)…
Serica Energy is targeting 2020 for first gas at its Columbus field in the Central North Sea, and reveals plans to begin drilling at the nearby Rowallan prospect next year. Map of Columbus, from Serica…
Recent rig count data suggests that there are no big moves over or under for offshore rig counts from February through end of March 2017. Baker Hughes released its latest US rig count numbers on Friday, 31 March, showing an increase of four units over week ago…
Detecting accidental oil releases on and around offshore rigs in real-time is crucial in today's offshore market. Offshore oil spill monitoring is now being offered as a service by InterOcean Systems, eliminating the need for facility owners and operators to purchase…
Statoil has picked up the largest number of licenses in the Oil & Gas Authority's 29th Offshore Licensing Award focusing on frontier or underexplored acreage on the UK Continental Shelf. In total, 25 licenses have been offered, covering 111 blocks…
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