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Betting on Hebron

Nov 01, 2014

First oil from ExxonMobil’s giant Hebron project off Newfoundland and Labrador is set for 2017. Sarah Parker Musarra received an update on the development from Geoff Parker, Hebron senior project manager, and examines its place in the Canadian energy economy…

EMGS gets first job in Thailand

Oct 31, 2014

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) is making its entrance into Thailand after receiving a US$7 million letter of intent for 3D EM data acquisition in Thailand and Myanmar. The survey will be done using the vessel BOA Thalassa and…

Gall Thomson launches UBC range

Oct 30, 2014

Gall Thomson launched a range of underbuoy breakaway couplings (UBCs) designed to protect single point mooring (SPM) terminals from the potential consequences of vessel collision or extreme weather events. The UBC is designed to activate…

Naviera Integral orders first two Damen FCS 4008

Oct 29, 2014

Mexico’s Naviera Integral is ordering the first two of Damen’s Sea Axe Fast Crew Supply vessels, the FCS 4008. Contract signing. From Damen.    Damen says the two companies and worked closely together on developing the new FCS 4008…

CGG’s StagSeis growing in GoM

Oct 29, 2014

CGG received another major commitment to its Gulf of Mexico StagSeis multi-client program with the prefunding of the entire 871-offshore-block program by an international E&P company.  StagSeis is a CGG multi-client solution that combines…

Repsol hits big at GoM León well

Oct 29, 2014

Repsol encountered high quality oil at the ultra deepwater well León, in the Keathley Canyon 642 block located in the US Gulf of Mexico. Map from Repsol.   At León, located 352km from the Louisiana coast…

Technip wins EnQuest subsea work

Oct 29, 2014

EnQuest awarded Technip an engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPCI) contract for the Kraken development. Technip's Deep Energy. From Technip.   Kraken is located in the North Sea…

Kleven converting Aker Wayfarer to SESV

Oct 28, 2014

Kleven’s Myklebust Verft signed a contract with Ocean Yield ASA for modifications of the Aker Wayfarer vessel to become a deepwater subsea equipment support vessel (SESV). The Aker Wayfarer. From Aker Solutions…

DNV GL discusses Arctic challenges

Oct 28, 2014

Major oil and gas companies have several challenges to face when it comes to operating in the Arctic. Won Ho Lee and Piotr Szalewski, both DNV GL principal engineers, discussed some of these challenges at the company’s annual Technology Week last month…

KrisEnergy charters FSO for Wassana

Oct 27, 2014

Singapore’s KrisEnergy chartered the Rubicon Vantage floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel and a catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoy for use on the Wassana oil development in the G10/48 license area located in the Gulf of Thailand…

Maersk secures US$17 million Total contract

Oct 27, 2014

Total awarded Maersk Drilling’s third drillship, the Maersk Venturer, a short-term, US$17 million contract for a one-well program offshore Malaysia. Maersk says the contract is for 45 days with an option to extend for up to 40 days. The drilling program is expected to begin in December 2014…

SOCAR accident kills four

Oct 27, 2014

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), confirmed in a statement that four employees died in a platform accident on 23 October. According to SOCAR's statement, 'The dead bodies of three of the four employees, missing after…

Karoon takes Olinda Star for Brazil work

Oct 24, 2014

Karoon Gas Australia has now taken possession of the Olinda Star semisubmersible drilling rig from Petrobras to drill in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. The rig is currently in the Campos basin and expected to be on location in the…

OFG completes Japanese CSEM survey

Oct 24, 2014

Ocean Floor Geophysics Ltd. (OFG) completed a high resolution CSEM survey of near surface gas hydrates using the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Vulcan system for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japanese waters…

Chevron finds oil in deepwater GoM

Oct 23, 2014

Chevron Corp. made a new oil discovery in the Keathley Canyon Block 10 located at the Guadalupe prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.  Transocean’s Discoverer India. From Chevron.   Well No…

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