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FOGL closing in on rig

Sep 24, 2013

Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL) has said it is moving closer to securing a rig for a 2014 drilling campaign in the remote Falklands region. The firm, focused on areas to the south and east of the Falkland Islands, said a rig enquiry had been issued and available units identified…

Sandvik acquires TPS

Sep 24, 2013

Sandvik Venture has acquired the German company TechnoPartner Samtronic (TPS), a manufacturer of scattering machines and double belt presses. The company’s core capabilities are reinforced Teflon belt-based double belt press machines…

Technip on Statoil riser renewal campaign

Sep 24, 2013

Technip has been awarded a contract by Statoil for the fabrication and supply of flexible risers for several fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract includes options for further risers and flowlines. The flexible pipes…

Iskrystall wildcat proves gas

Sep 23, 2013

Statoil ASA, along with partners Eni Norge and Petoro, made a gas discovery at the Iskrystall prospect on PL608 off Norway in the Barents Sea. The well is approximately 30km southwest of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg and about 240km north of Hammerfest…

Thalassa buys GO Science

Sep 23, 2013

Thalassa has agreed a deal to buy Go Science for £3.6 million from administrators. Go Science, which employs six people, provides mobile sensor grid services and products, in the UK and overseas, to the oil and gas, defense and homeland security sectors…

Ithaca agrees string of deals

Sep 23, 2013

Ithaca Energy has agreed string of farm-out deals on a number of UK North Sea assets.  Newly formed private-equity backed Oyster Petroleum is to take a 9% working interest in west of Shetland licences containing the Handcross prospect…

Breagh set back again

Sep 23, 2013

First production on the southern North Sea RWE Dea UK-operated Breagh gas field has been set back, again.  Sterling Resources, a partner on the project, said production start-up will now be delayed until mid-October, according to RWE…

Siri still offline, says Noreco

Sep 23, 2013

Noreco has said an end could be in sight to some of its production problems across UK, Norwegian and Danish North Sea sector assets.  The firm’s Huntington and Oselvar fields were both shut-in during parts of August. At the E.ON E&P-operated UK North Sea Huntington field…

Aegir christened before GoM debut

Sep 23, 2013

Heerema Marine Contractor’s new Deepwater Construction Vessel (DCV) Aegir was christened in the Rotterdam Calandkanaal (NL). This state-of-the-art vessel is capable of executing complex infrastructure and pipeline projects in ultra deep water…

Baku shipyard JV opens

Sep 20, 2013

A new shipbuilding yard, jointly developed by Keppel Offshore & Marine, Azerbaijan’s state oil firm SOCAR and Azerbaijan Investment Company (AIC), was officially opened this morning, September 20.  Baku Shipyard is a 62ha yard, in Baku…

Woodside's Irish debut approved

Sep 20, 2013

Austalia's Woodside has been given the official go-ahead to start exploration acitivies in Ireland's offshore Porcupine basin. Its joint venture partner Petrel Resources said Ireland's minister of state at the Department of Communications…

Nexans umbilicals for Gulfaks

Sep 19, 2013

Nexans has been awarded an €8 million contract by Statoil to supply the static umbilicals for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen gas project in the Norwegian North Sea. It will be the fourth Statoil project in quick succession to feature the new…

Norwegian fibre rope first

Sep 19, 2013

The Goliat floating production unit will be the first facility on the Norwegian shelf to be held in place by ropes, says Eni. For the project, the first oil field due to come on stream in the Barents Sea, Eni Norge says it has has developed 'the world's strongest mooring rope'…

Stones FPSO ordered

Sep 19, 2013

Keppel Shipyard has been awarded two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) conversion contracts, including one for Shell's Stone's project, worth a combined value of US$150 million (S$190 million). The first is from SBM Offshore…

BP Quad 204 Geotechnical Survey Success

Sep 18, 2013

UTEC Geomarine today announced the successful completion of a significant geotechnical survey program in the West of Shetland region. The work was carried out for BP on their Quad 204 development and involved the utilization of UTEC Geomarine's…

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