The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) announced its US$3 million (£2.4 million) Improved Fatigue Life of Welded Jacket Connections (JaCo) project, aiming to cut the cost of offshore wind by optimizing the design of jacket foundations…
Fugro announced a partnership with the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE to support the oil major's global, three-year ocean mapping competition. The competition is looking for rapid, unmanned and high resolution ocean mapping technologies…
India's Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has awarded Genesis a contract to undertake front end engineering design (FEED) on the MJ field deepwater development in block KG-DWN-98/3 in the Bay of Bengal. This project will consider a seven…
DeepOcean subsidiary, ADUS DeepOcean, completed a 3D laser survey offshore Ghana, which has led to a further three-year contract for DeepOcean Ghana Ltd. The recent climate in the oil and gas industry has sharpened the need for cost effective…
PeruPetro, the responsible government agency, has granted independent oil and gas exploration and production company Baron Oil to drill the Cuy-Z34-13-1X exploration well offshore of northwest Peru in Block Z-34. The well is planned to be drilled in 5764ft of water to a total depth of 12…
Subsea 7 has taken delivery of the Seven Arctic and Seven Kestrel, successfully completing a substantial and targeted fleet investment program that has added six newbuild vessels to the Subsea 7 fleet since 2014. Image of the Seven Kestrel…
North Sea decommissioning is finally happening and it means some difficult questions are starting to be asked about what should be left behind and what might benefit sea life. Elaine Maslin explores the details. Shoal…
The floating production systems market remains challenging. Will cost-cutting measures made over the past two years help projects reach final investment decision in 2017? Infield’s Catarina Podevyn assesses the market. Johan Castberg…
French research institute Ifremer has chosen French robotics and automation firm ECA Group to develop an ultra deep autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) able to reach 6000m water depth. Through the move, ECA Group will become the prime…
The Thunder Horse South Expansion project, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, has started up 11 months ahead of schedule, supermajor BP announced today (23 January). Illustration of the expansion at Thunder Horse…
Guyana's Ministry of Natural Resources says it is planning to have a new Petroleum Directorate established and functioning within Q1 this year. The move comes as the South American country eyes its first offshore oil production, following…
Qinterra Technologies has been awarded a three-year wireline tractor and instrumented intervention services contract with a deepwater oil and gas operator in the US Gulf of Mexico, effective immediately. The scope of the contract includes tractor conveyance…
UK-listed independent Ophir Energy says preparations for drilling to restart on the deepwater Ayame-1 oil exploration well offshore Ivory Coast, Africa, are at an advanced stage. The well is expected to spud in late May and is targeting about 240 MMbbl Pmean recoverable resources…
Oil services giant Halliburton and Brazil’s Petrobras have signed a technology cooperation agreement that will advance collaboration in a diverse set of projects targeting complex reservoirs such as deepwater pre-salt and mature fields, offshore Brazil…
The first signs of growth in the oil and gas industry can be seen, says analyst Wood Mackenzie. The firm's forecast shows a double growth in the number of final investment decisions in 2017, compared to 2016. According to Wood Mackenzie's global upstream outlook for 2017…
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