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Kongsberg to help outfit Awilco Rig

Aug 23, 2018

Kongsberg Maritime has been selected by global offshore and marine group Keppel Offshore & Marine to provide an extensive and integrated technology delivery for a new semi-submersible drilling rig ordered by UK-based drilling contractor Awilco Drilling PLC…

MMT Inks 10 New Contracts over 2 Months

Aug 22, 2018

Swedish based marine surveyor MMT has during the past two months received 10 new subsea survey and inspection projects within the offshore wind, renewable energy and oil and gas industries.MMT said the contracts, some of which are in joint collaboration with MMT’s Norwegian partner Reach Subsea…

Seabed Geosolutions Wins GoM Extensions

Aug 16, 2018

Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has secured an extension to a recently awarded 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic monitoring surveys over multiple oil and gas fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Seabed Geosolutions…

En+ Considers Move to Russia's New Offshore Zone

Aug 16, 2018

En+ Group, hit by U.S. sanctions against Russia in April, said on Thursday it was investigating the possibility of re-domiciling from Britain's Jersey to one of Russia's new offshore zones.London-listed En+ Group, which manages the energy and aluminium businesses of Oleg Deripaska…

Equinor says Effort to Restart Mongstad Refinery Continues

Aug 15, 2018

Work to restart Norway's Mongstad oil refinery will continue throughout the evening on Wednesday, following a power outage that shut the facility earlier in the day, operator Equinor said.The unexpected outage happened during routine maintenance on the site's power supply…

Bay State Wind Revises Turbine Layout

Aug 13, 2018

Bay State Wind, an offshore wind joint venture between developer Ørsted and New England electric transmission company Eversource, announced a significant change to its proposed wind farm layout in response to feedback from fishermen and community members…

Jack-up Completes Major Crane Refit

Aug 09, 2018

Brave Tern, the 132-meter jack-up operated by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS, has completed a major crane refit at Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam.The main operation was the insertion of a 20-meter section into the main boom of the 800-tonne crane, allowing it to reach a height of 120 meters…

India Launches 2nd Auction of Small Discovered O&G Blocks

Aug 09, 2018

India launched its second auction of small discovered oil and gas blocks on Thursday, as the south Asian nation looks to quickly monetise its hydrocarbon resources.The bidding for 59 fields will begin in the first week of September and will close on Dec…

North Sea Oil Market Sounds Alarm on Oversupply

Aug 08, 2018

The North Sea physical oil market is letting off a distress signal - crude is once again being stored on ships – as production increases from major exporters threaten a fragile balance between global supply and demand.Reuters data shows nearly…

Russia's Rosneft More Than Triples Q2 Net Profit

Aug 07, 2018

Russia's Rosneft more than triples Q2 net profit, shares hit recordRussia's largest oil producer Rosneft said on Tuesday its second-quarter net profit more than tripled to 228 billion roubles ($3.6 billion) on higher production and prices, pushing its shares to an all-time peak…

Kosmos Energy Acquired DGE for $1.23 Bln

Aug 06, 2018

Kosmos Energy has agreed to acquire Deep Gulf Energy (DGE) from its private equity owner for $1.23 billion, according to a bourse filing on Monday, expanding the deepwater oil and gas firm's operations into the Gulf of Mexico.Dallas-based Kosmos…

Gas Production at Egypt's 9B Field to Begin in October - Minister

Aug 03, 2018

Production of natural gas from two deepwater wells at Shell's West Nile Delta field 9B in Egypt will begin in the first half of October, the country's petroleum minister said on Friday.Tarek El Molla said in a statement the whole project, which…

Bad Weather Stalls Bangladesh FSRU Hook Up

Aug 02, 2018

A vessel that arrived in Bangladesh in April to offload its maiden cargo of liquefied natural gas and moor permanently as an import terminal should begin operations 'within a week' after bad weather hampered its start-up, an official said on Thursday…

Petronas Appoints Ahmad Nizam Salleh as New Chairman

Aug 01, 2018

Malaysia has appointed Ahmad Nizam Salleh as the new chairman of state-owned oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd effective immediately, according to a statement from the prime minister's office on Wednesday.Ahmad Nizam has worked in the oil and…

Gas Production Begins at Ichthys LNG Project

Jul 30, 2018

Inpex Corp said on Monday it has begun producing gas at the $40 billion Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off northern Australia, a major milestone for the long-delayed project.'The project expects to begin the shipment of products…

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