Seadrill has sold its remaining stake of approximately 490 million shares in SapuraKencana in a US$195 million deal. The proceeds from the share sale will provide additional liquidity and will be used for general corporate purposes. Earlier this month…
Hess Corp. recorded a US$509 million loss in Q1, in addition to a 34% drop in its revenue. Image from Hess. The loss is much wider than the Q1 2015 loss of $389 million. The decrease…
Mubadala Petroleum encountered oil at two wells in the Manora field, offshore Thailand. Map from Mubadala. The Atwood Orca jackup drilled wells MNA-15 and MNA-16 wells to final total depths of 2566m and 2998m…
Deep Sea Supply has been awarded multiple contracts by several international oil companies for work in the North Sea, offshore Asia, and South America. Statoil awarded Deep Sea a two-year contract, plus three yearly options for the PSV Sea Falcon for operations in the North Sea…
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) has started production at its Panyu 11-5 field in the South China Sea. Panyu is loctated in the Pearl River Mouth basin in 110m water depth. While there is currently one well producing approximately 3270 b/d…
Malaysian state oil firm Petronas is due to start drilling offshore Suriname next month, the country's state oil firm says. Staatsolie says Petronas, with partner DEA, a German company, has lined up the Rowan Company's Ralph Coffman…
Transocean has listed one rig as held for sale and inked three new contracts, including a new contract for its Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 ultra deepwater drillship, currently based offshore east India. The rate for the vessel is undisclosed…
Tidal energy firm Atlantis is looking to form a joint venture to develop a 150MW tidal stream site off Indonesia. The firm is joining forces with SBS, a privately owned international marine, subsea and renewable energy developer, which…
DOF Subsea has been awarded more than US$61.6 million (NOK 500 million) in IMR and subsea installation contracts in several regions, including key work on Eni's OCTP project offshore Ghana. DOF was awarded an FPSO mooring installation…
The repair of the Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye, sixth generation semisubmersible mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), have been completed under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Shipyard in Yantai…
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings is set to divest its largest floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit, the Lewek EMAS, in efforts to step away from the ownership of FPSO assets and streamline resources, the company revealed in its 1H 2016 report…
GE Oil & Gas and SapuraKencana Well Services have agreed an Asia-Pacific deal to deliver light well intervention services, which they say will unlock previously uneconomic subsea intervention activity. The strategic alliance will enable oil and gas operators to bring wells into production…
India’s Oil & Natural Gas (ONGC) has awarded Fugro a contract for the provision of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services on board the drillship Sagar Vijay, off the east coast of India. Under the contract, Fugro will provide support for deepwater drilling operations in depths up to 900m…
While Ensco adds two more rigs to its cold-stacked list, the rig provider sold one of its semisubmersibles for US$1 million. The Houston-based company has also seen several of its contracts shortened. Image from Ensco…
Polarcus has received a letter of intent from an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic contract in Indonesia using the Polarcus' XArray (TM) technique for enhanced productivity and data quality. Cameron Astill, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific…
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