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…
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…
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…
The trophy for this year's Offshore Achievement Awards in Aberdeen has been picked, with less than a month to go now until entries close for the Society of Petroleum Engineers' organized event, supported by OE (Offshore Engineer). Each year the organizers of the awards…
UK-based oil and gas exploration minnow i3 Energy says drilling is expected to start on its North Sea Liberator development in 1H 2018. The firm says 2P reserves on the field have been increased from an estimate of 11.7 MMboe, re-classified from 2C resources of 9…
French geoscience firm CGG has been awarded a contract by Côte d’Ivoire’s Direction Générale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) and PETROCI, the national oil company, to acquire with its local partner, Harvex Geosolutions, a multi-client program of gravity…
Mexico's National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) announced today that 25 companies have askes to sign up for the next deepwater round, Round 2.4, to be held on 31 January 2018. The companies that have signed up include those that have participated in previous rounds such as BHP…
More than 700 offshore fields are expected to cease production in the next five years, according to forecasts. Elaine Maslin reports. Two major events appeared to fire the starting gun for the UK’s offshore decommissioning market to take…
Oilfield services firm Expro has launched a new extreme high-pressure tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) gun system, delivering the largest perforation hole area available for frac and gravel pack completions. Designed specifically for challenging deepwater environments in the Gulf of Mexico…
UK firm Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) says it expects to award key project contactors and submit a field development plan for its Vulcan Satellites hub later this month following a report which has significantly increased reserves numbers for the fields…
Production has resumed at the Tamar gas field offshore Israel after a crack was found in an emission pipe used to release natural gas and pressure, according to partner Delek Drilling. Noble was performing upgrade and improvement as planned…
Production at Noble Energy’s Tamar platform offshore Israel has come to a stop after a crack was found in an emission pipe used to release natural gas and pressure, according to partner Delek Drilling. The Tamar platform…
Well-Safe Solutions has appointed a director of well abandonment, adding to the new company's list of decommissioning experts. Matt Jenkins has joined Well-Safe from Conoco where he led the firm's UK plug and abandonment (P&A) engineering…
Having a power hub, to supply future Barents Sea developments, could help operators mitigate CO2 emissions – and the regulations that they could come up against. Marius Kluge Foss, of Rystad Energy, explains. The Barents Sea is the last Norwegian oil province with anticipated future growth…
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