SBM wins Stones long-term FPSO contract
SBM Offshore is to provide the FPSO (floating production storage and offloading vessel) for Shell's Stones development project in the US Gulf of Mexico.
SBM Offshore is to provide the FPSO (floating production storage and offloading vessel) for Shell's Stones development project in the US Gulf of Mexico.
Total has booked Prospector Offshore Drilling's Prospector 5 jack-up rig, which is currently being built in the Far East.
French energy industry service group Technip has landed a $47million engineering deal for a new liquefied natural gas plant in China.
The North Sea Buzzard field restarted oil exports again yesterday following the reopening of the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) after five days of planned maintenance.
Ecosse Subsea Systems has moved into new premises in anticipation of doubling staff numbers. Managing director Mike Wilson tells Ross Davidson how getting a foot in the door with oil majors has led to growth for the north-east subsea technology specialist
Drilling contractor KCA Deutag said yesterday it had won its second contract to work with a major North Sea operator in recent months.
Australian oil and gas explorer Buccaneer says flow testing has been successfully carried out at the Cosmo 1 well off Alaska.
Seven Polish people, who are understood to include four government officials, have been charged with corruption over issuing shale gas exploration licences in the country, according to prosecutors in the country.
Norwegian oil giant Statoil says it expects to get its Visund platform back in production before the end of the week.
Seismic specialists Spectrum says it has acquired new 2D surveys of the UK's gas basin ahead of next January's licence round.
Work on a relief well at the site of a gas rig blaze in the Gulf of Mexico has finally started two weeks after the fire.
Struggling Norwegian oil firm Noreco says the Oselvar field is back on stream - but says it is still strugging with production at its other projects.
Wellhead manufacturer Hartmann Valves has criticised the UK gas storage industry for not keeping pace with European rivals.
Oil giant BP says it has found new evidence of fraud and conflicts of interest over compensation payouts in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Oil and gas exploration company Dragon saw profits drop by 20% for the first half of 2013 despite an 15% increase in production.
Norwegian oil services firm NorSea Group has appointed Kim Christensen as its first UK general manager as the company looks to increase its presence in Scotland.
Far East focused exploration form Salamander says it has struck oil in the latest exploration well in the Gulf of Thailand.
Wood Group PSN has landed a £40million deal to continue providing services for the Triton FPSO for another two years.
Oil giant Shell has vowed to be in the North Sea for decades to come.
Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) has taken delivery of three more Damen Twin Axe windfarm support vessels and expects two more to arrive this month.
CIMC Yantai Raffles in China and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding of Korea have contracted Kongsberg of Norway to supply an array of dynamic positioning (DP), automation, new generation safety, integrated navigation, hydroacoustic positioning and latest riser management systems for two new-build Frigstad D90 drilling rigs and a Bassoe Technology BT-UDS class drillship.
Houston-based deepwater well intervention firm, Helix Energy Solutions has announced their plans to build the Q7000, its second new-build semi-submersible well intervention vessel.
Two of Vroon's subsea support vessels, VOS Satisfaction and VOS Sweet, have secured work at E.ON's Humber Gateway offshore windfarm.
The complex and troubled Kashagan development, offshore Kazakhstann, is apparently experiencing further difficulties due to infrastructure subsidence and rotting pipework.
A mere $23.6billion worth of upstream oil and gas deals was conducted on the global mergers and acquisitions market during this year's second quarter, according to analysts Evaluate Energy.