Oil rose on Monday, with Brent touching the highest in five months, underpinned by a 30% cut in Abu Dhabi crude supplies and encouraging Chinese data even as global demand struggles to return to pre-COVID levels in a well-supplied market.Brent crude futures for November advanced to $46…
Danish offshore drilling company Maersk Drilling has won a long-term contract extension for its jack-up rig Maersk Convincer with Brunei Shell Petroleum in Brunei.Brunei Shell Petroleum has exercised its contract extension option that will see the jack-up drilling unit extend its stay in Brunei…
Dana Petroleum, a North Sea-focused subsidiary of South Korea's KNOC, has appointed Jongwoo Kim as its new CEO.Kim joins Dana Petroleum from its parent company Korea National Oil Corporation.Jongwoo succeeds the previous CEO Yongwoo Kang who…
Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices hovered above $4 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) this week as cargo loadings from the United States were delayed due to a powerful hurricane.The average LNG price for October delivery into northeast Asia <LNG-AS> was estimated at about $4…
Offshore wind installation company Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has won a conditional contract for its Brave Tern jack-up, for wind turbine installation work in Taiwan.The conditional contract is with Liwei Wind Power Co. Ltd., a company wholly owned by wpd Group…
Offshore engineering, construction, and services provider McDermott has won a contract with Delta Offshore Energy to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a subsea gas pipeline at its Sisyphus project. The pipeline will connect a regasification platform…
Indonesian oil and gas regulators have approved the plan of development of the Paus Biru offshore gas field in the East Java Basin.The field is located in the Medco-operated Sampang offshore block, in the Madura Strait, off Madura Island, Indonesia…
Construction of KrisEnergy's minimum facilities wellhead platform for the Apsara oil development offshore Cambodia has been completed and the platform has sailed away to its offshore location.KrisEnergy said the topsides and the jacket of the…
Subsea services provider IEV has been awarded an advanced inspection solutions contract in Malaysia.The contract, accepted by IEV Malaysia last Friday, was awarded by an unnamed oil and gas (“O&G”) services provider.IEV said the contract was…
Japanese company JERA has filed an environmental impact statement for the proposed 520MW offshore wind farm in the Ishikari Bay, Hokkaido, Japan.JERA, which submitted the documents to the Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry on Monday said…
Building a versatile OSV fleet is expensive, even more expensive when your timing is wrong. Buy at the top and you can quickly find yourself exposed if the market suddenly turns, those shiny new assets depreciate rapidly, and large debts, that the (new) poor market cannot service…
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine has said that converted FLNG vessels save approximately 33% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to an FLNG new build, citing a study by environmental consultants, Environmental Resources Management (ERM)…
Norway-based seismic surveyor Shearwater GeoServices has won its first-ever contract in Vietnam.Under the contract signed with operator SK Innovation, Shearwater will be responsible for a towed streamer 3D acquisition over the offshore Block 16-2…
China's national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd said first-half profit slumped by nearly two-thirds to the lowest since December 2017, as the coronavirus pandemic battered energy demand and sent oil prices to historical lows.The listed…
Oilfield services firm Halliburton will design and implement a series of digital transformation projects aimed at boosting production from Thailand-based PTTEP's offshore oil fields.Halliburton said Tuesday that it had won a contract to deliver…
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