Subsea 7 S.A. today announced a contract award by Pemex to its Mexican joint venture valued at approximately $90 million. The contract comprises the engineering, fabrication and installation of an 8km pipeline, related risers, two slug catchers1 and two cantilever structures for the Line 67 Project in the Bay of Campeche, offshore Mexico. This is [...]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), with assistance from the Civil Aviation Authority, carried out an audit of Ekofisk 2/4-L facility on 4 – 5 April 2013. The objective of the audit was to verify that Ekofisk 2/4-L , located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, was built in accordance with regulatory requirements [...]
The Board of Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) announced that Svein Arild Killingland has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company group. Svein Arild Killingland will take office on Monday 13 May 2013. Svein Arild Killingland (57) was until recently employed as Senior Partner in HitecVision (2010-12). Killingland has previously held positions [...]
BG Norge AS has received consent to carry out production drilling, completion and well testing on the Knarr field, with the Transocean Searcher rig. The planned start-up is in June 2013 and the operation has an expected duration of 60-80 days. Transocean Searcher is a semi-submersible rig of a Bingo 3000 design, built in 1983. [...]
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Vector Technology Group Subsea Division last delivered its solutions for the Marine Well Containment System Project in the Gulf of Mexico. The scope of supply was to design, manufacture, assemble and test two safety systems to connect two free standing risers at the top and bottom locations that could be deployed in the GoM in [...]
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Transocean Ltd., one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, today announced that J. Michael Talbert has advised the Board of Directors that, if re-elected at the company’s upcoming Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) on May 17, he will retire from the Board no later than the company’s 2014 AGM. To facilitate an orderly transition of [...]
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director James Watson and U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio announced yesterday at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that will strengthen the working relationship between their two agencies on the management of safety and environmental protection responsibilities on the [...]
Market-leading energy services company Proserv has won a multi-million dollar contract in Angola, underpinning the company’s fast-evolving subsea status and increasing demand for its sampling system innovations. Proserv is to design and manufacture a subsea sampling system for BP’s PSVM field development which, with a water depth of 2,000 metres, is believed to be the [...]
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The Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, secretary of state for energy and climate change, yesterday addressed a London audience of 150 on how to best deliver a successful oil and gas industry and how government policy is put into practice here in the UK. The oil and gas industry is the single biggest industrial contributor [...]
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces the appointment of Jonathan Cooper as Chief Financial Officer. Jonathan Cooper is a chartered accountant by training having qualified with KPMG before joining Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (later Wasserstein) in [...]
