Noble Energy has been named the successor operator of the Thunder Hawk production facility, according to the company’s Q2 2016 report. Scant on details, Noble did confirm that the deal is expected to become effective within Q3 2016, subject to regulatory approval…
The market for floating production systems may have stalled, but FPSs will still be a key part of the offshore technology tool kit, outlines Douglas-Westwood’s Ben Wilby. The FPSO Cidade de Saquarema…
SBM Offshore has appointed former Shell executive D.H.M. Wood as management board member and chief financial officer (CFO), to be effective in October. On 10 February 2016, SBM announced the intention of the current CFO, P.M. van Rossum…
The Cidade de Saquarema floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit is sailing to the Lula field offshore Brazil for its 20-year contract, following its recent conversion at the BRASA shipyard. Cidade de Saquarema departs from BRASA shipyard…
Petrobras has started production from the Cidade de Saquarema floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit on the giant Lula field, offshore Brazil. Cidade de Saquarema, from SBM Offshore…
SBM Offshore shows its fleet of floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessels and operations offshore Brazil, in particular its Brasa yard in Niteroi (near Rio de Janiero). OE profiled the yard in 2013. The company’s latest FPSO…
InterMoor has successfully completed the final tensioning and chain cutting operations on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Turritella, for the Shell Stones project, located in the Walker Ridge protraction area in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM)…
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has appointed Harke Jan Meek as chief commercial officer as of 1 June 2016. In the role, Meek will be member of the HMC board and be responsible for the commercial and technology departments. Meek…
Kory Kinney, of IHS, takes a look at some of the projects underway in the US Gulf of Mexico. As we move through 2016, construction activity in the US Gulf of Mexico has begun dwindling…
The Energy Industries Council’s project tracking database EICDataStream is currently tracking 85 active and future projects in the US Gulf of Mexico, in various stages of development, and the outlook for 2017 and beyond is positive. Major…
Floating production specialist SBM Offshore has accepted an out of court settlement over allegations relating to the Petrobras corruption scandal - but says this doesn't amount to an admission of guilt. The allegations were made in December…
After more than a year since Bumi Armada Berhad’s chief executive officer (CEO) Hassan Basma stepped down, the board has appointed Leon A. Harland as its new CEO. Harland. Image from Heerema. Harland…
Amsterdam-based SBM Offshore announced that it received from Petrobras the formal invitation to tender for the Sépia and Libra FPSOs (floating production, storage and offloading), as referenced in the company’s Q3 trading update of 11 November…
Shell has started oil production from the third phase of its Parque das Conchas (BC-10) development, offshore Brazil, in hopes of adding up to 20,000 boe/d. The Espirito Santo FPSO. Image from SBM Offshore…
Since its discovery in 2010, the Sea Lion field offshore the Falkland Islands has been subject to a string of development options. Elaine Maslin looks at Premier Oil’s optimized final plan. Ocean Rig’s Ocean Guardian semisubmersible drilling rig…