PGS Titan class ships order-book doubles to four at $250million each
PGS has order a further pair of gigantic Ramform-style seismic survey vessels from Mitsubishi of Japan.
PGS has order a further pair of gigantic Ramform-style seismic survey vessels from Mitsubishi of Japan.
Having just settled into its new Aberdeen premises, seals technology specialist Freudenberg Oil & Gas is planning further growth, including creating more jobs.
As more and more emphasis is placed on deepwater drilling and the economics of developing remote gas resources improve, Australia is predicted to overtake Qatar as the biggest global producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2017, according to new research.
On November 14, NOF Energy will host a lunch designed to attract contractors to pitch for work with Heerema Fabrications at Hartlepool as it sets its teeth into a huge package of work on the ÂŁ2billion Cygnus gas project.
Momentum is building in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea with a fresh and potentially commercial condensate discovery and approvals granted for two further exploration wells.
Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors have signed a worldwide alliance agreement designed to capitalise in the fast-growing global subsea oil and gas market.
Amec has forged a joint venture with Samsung whereby the UK company will perform the design engineering for fixed and floating offshore platforms, floating production, storage, and offloading vessels (FPSOs), and subsea pipelines for the Korean group's future offshore oil and gas projects.
Framo Engineering of Norway has secured a $200million contract with Total for the supply of a subsea multiphase pumping system for the Girassol Resources Initiatives (GirRI) project offshore Angola.
A report commissioned by Nigeria's current Oil Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has revealed that mismanagement and corruption in the country's oil and gas industry has cost the Nigerian treasury billions of dollars every year, and that losses due to oil theft amount to around $6billion a year.
Norwegian company Prosafe has signed a letter of intent covering the construction of another semi-submersible accommodation rig at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore comparable to the Safe Boreas currently in build.
Aker Solutions has secured a $50million contract with Eni for a work package on the deepwater block 15/06 West Hub development offshore Angola.
Shell has been brought before the civil court in Den Hague, Netherlands, to defend itself in a suit charging that its operations in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria polluted a number of villages and poisoned fish farms.
Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) has revealed plans to invest an estimated $14billion to develop six fields in the Persian Gulf, according to the company's managing director.
Tidal and free-flow water turbines designer and manufacturer, Tocardo, has forged what is described as a "strategic long-term partnership" with Huisman, which is renowned for its prowess in heavy-lift and offshore construction systems for the offshore oil and gas industry.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) claims it is possible to double global hydro-electricity output by 2050.
China's Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) has received 152 bids for 19 of the 20 shale gas blocks put up for bid in September during the first licensing round open to foreign companies.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has advised that the Australian federal government has not established a plan to deal with oil and gas exploration offshore Western Australia in the Ningaloo Reef World Heritage Site, a major migratory area for several species of whales.
Providence Resources, together with 50:50 partner Petronas of Malaysia, have secured the licence for an area in the Kish Bank Basin offshore Dublin that will at last enable it to drill the Dalkey Island oil prospect off Dublin.
BP has agreed to share the technical information it used to build its global deepwater well-capping equipment with Pemex of Mexico.
Chariot Oil & Gas has contracted a 3,500 sq km 3D seismic survey over Block C19 offshore Mauritania to be carried out by Fugro-Geoteam in water depths ranging 30-2,000m
KBR has been awarded a contract by the Tanzania unit of Statoil to perform pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) studies for a prospective liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Tanzania. The work package is expected to be completed during 2013.
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has expanded its multi-client basalt mapping project in the West of Shetland area to include the Voring Basin in the Norwegian Sea.
Statoil has been given clearance by Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to employ the West Elara jack-up drilling rig for drilling and well operations on the Valemon field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding's Jinhae Shipyard in South Korea has been awarded a $700million contract to construct a new drillship for delivery during the second half of 2015.
Transocean has bagged a 20-month contract worth $360million with ENI for its deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco Express.