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TEN nears first oil

Jul 27, 2016

Independent explorer Tullow Oil has returned to a profit and is looking forward to first production on its TEN project offshore Ghana next month, on schedule, and focusing its exploration efforts on South America. TEN, a floating production…

Technip bags Greater Enfield EPC work

Jul 27, 2016

Technip has won am engineering, procurement, installation and pre-commissioning contract from Australia's Woodside for the Greater Enfield Project. Greater Enfield is 60km off Exmouth in Western Australia in 340-850m water depth. The…

Schlumberger, Golar form OneLNG JV

Jul 26, 2016

Golar LNG and Schlumberger have formed a new joint venture, OneLNG, to rapidly develop low cost gas reserves to LNG. The combination of Schlumberger reservoir knowledge, wellbore technologies and production management capabilities…

OneSubsea selects Nexans for Greater Enfield, Australia

Jul 25, 2016

OneSubsea has ordered umbilical and accessories from French firm Nexans as part of work to develop the Greater Enfield development, off Exmouth, Western Australia. The project, worth around US$21.9 million (€20 million), will see Nexans' first product installed in Australia…

FPF-1 sets sail from Gdansk yard

Jul 22, 2016

Ithaca Energy's floating production unit, the FPF-1, has set sail from the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk after completing a required inclination test. The vessel has been moved to a deepwater location offshore Gdansk to undertake final marine system trials over the course of next week…

New operator for Berantai field

Jul 21, 2016

Malaysia's Petronas has appointed a wholly owned subsidiary Vestigo Petroleum to operate the Berantai field facilities. The facilities, about 150km offshore Malaysia, comprise of a wellhead platform connected to a floating production…

Catcher FPSO project remains on track

Jul 12, 2016

Premier Oil's Catcher floating production project in the UK North Sea is on schedule to deliver first oil in 2H next year. The UK-based independent says further cost savings have been secured against the project estimates. Premier now forecasts capex to first oil of US$1…

FPF-1 bound for Stella in two weeks

Jul 11, 2016

Ithaca Energy's FPF-1 floating production facility is set to leave its yard in about two weeks and start first oil from the Greater Stella area in about three months from then.  UK-based independent Ithaca said modifications on the unit in the Remontowa Yard in Gdansk…

CNR extends Ivory Coast FPSO contract

Jul 08, 2016

CNR International has has exercised an option to extend the fixed term of the lease contract for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Espoir Ivoirien from 2017 to 2022. The vessel produces oil from the Espoir field since 2002…

Herd re-acquires Andrews Survey

Jul 04, 2016

Aberdeen-based floating production services firm Amplus Energy, has concluded a multi million pound deal to buy Aberdeen-based survey company Andrews Survey, from the administrators of the Harkand Group, which went into administration at the beginning of May…

TEN due online in 3-6 weeks

Jun 30, 2016

Tullow Oil's TEN floating production project offshore Ghana is on schedule for first oil within the next three to six weeks, the firm announced this morning.  Tullow says the project, which is also within budget, is over 96% complete…

Unmanned facilities, IO operations needed for today's industry

Jun 28, 2016

An aversion to risk, the race to be second, impairs the oil and gas industry’s ability to innovate.  Yet, the oil price slump, from mid-2014 to today, has been a “brutal wake-up call,” creating a realization that working smarter in a…

Woodside sanctions $1.9bn Greater Enfield project

Jun 27, 2016

The US$1.9 billion Greater Enfield project offshore Australia has been given the green light by operator Woodside Energy and its partner, Mitsui E&P Australia. First oil is scheduled for mid-2019, via a 31km subsea tie-back to the existing Ngujima-Yin floating production…

UPDATED: FPF1 sailaway by end of month

Jun 21, 2016

Sailaway on Ithaca Energy's FPF1 floating production facility to the Greater Stella Area development in the UK North Sea is expected by the end of this month, according to contractor Petrofac. After a series of setbacks on the FPF1 modification project at the Remontowa Shipyard in Gdansk…

FES inks Cape Three Points contract

Jun 17, 2016

UK-based fluid transfer solutions firm FES International has won a contract to supply equipment to Eni's Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) project, 60km offshore Ghana. The project includes the combined development of the Sankofa Main…

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