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		<title>Denmark: Ramboll Strengthens Pipelines &amp; Subsea Department</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wishing to increase performance and quality of the company&#8217;s consultancy within Pipelines &#38; Subsea projects, Ramboll Oil &#38; Gas has appointed Lars Eriksen to a newly established position as Project Director. The Pipelines &#38; Subsea department in Copenhagen is now lead by Søren Skovgård Møller. This organisational up scaling is due to recent positive business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Offshore Achievement Awards Finalists List Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shortlist for the Offshore Achievement Awards has been announced today, recognising the top individuals and companies in the energy industry. The awards, re-launched in October by the Society of Petroleum Engineers with the support of main sponsor TAQA Bratani, will celebrate the finest talent in categories including overall company performance, commitment to safety and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wintershall Gets Approval for Drilling in Norwegian North Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petroleum Safety Authority Norweay has given consent to Wintershall Norway ASA for exploration drilling in the North Sea with the semi submersible rig Songa Delta.  The consent applies to drilling of exploration well 35/9-7 as part of PL 418 with Wintershall Norway ASA as operator. The well is located approx. 139 km from Flesland airport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: Chevron Getting Ready to Kill Burning Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron has finalized plans to start drilling a relief well to control the Funiwa Deep 1A well. The fire is still burning at the well, but continues to diminish. Based on the condition of the well, the safest way to control the well is to drill a relief well to kill the well at reservoir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noreco: Bad Weather Continues to Hamper Production (Norway)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) in January 2012 produced 1,653 barrels of oil equivalents (boe) per day. Net realized oil price was USD 99 per boe after adjustments for oil put options, inventory, NGL and gas prices. Production continued to be negatively impacted by weather conditions in the North Sea, resulting in periods of shutdown of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Xcite Energy Renegotiates Rowan Jack-Up Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xcite Energy, has negotiated an amendment to its rig contract with British American Offshore Limited, a subsidiary of Rowan Companies Inc. The amendment provides additional flexibility around timing of the provision of a heavy duty, harsh environment jack up drilling unit, which will better suit the revised work programme as anticipated for Phase 1B of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India: Cochin Shipyard Delivers Skandi Hawk to DOF</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOF ASA&#8217;s subsidiary, DOF Rederi II AS, , has today taken delivery of Skandi Hawk from Cochin Shipyard in India. The vessel is a combined CSV/PSV of STX PSV 09 CD design and the second vessel in a series of two vessels from the same yard.   The Skandi Hawk&#8217;s overall length is 88.1 m and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Petrobras Finds Gas in Potiguar Basin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg today reported that Brazil&#8217;s oil giant, Petrobras, has found evidence of natural gas in an exploration well located in BM-POT-11 offshore block, Potiguar basin. The well was drilled using with the Petrobras V jack-up rig. The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) said on its website that the discovery has not yet been declared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denmark: National Oilwell Varco Buys NKT Flexibles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to the announcement dated September 20, 2011, the Boards of NKT Holding NS and Subsea 7 S.A. have completed their review of strategic alternatives for the future development of NKT Flexibles (the “Company”) which has been operated as a joint venture between NKT Holding A/S (51%) and Subsea 7 S.A. (49%) since 1999. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: StabFrame Successfully Deployed at Waimea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first offshore pile installation operation with the StabFrame, a newly developed subsea pile-stabilising template, has been successfully completed in the OGX Waimea field in Brazil&#8217;s Campos Basin. Jointly developed by Large Diameter Drilling Ltd. (LDD) and MENCK GmbH, the StabFrame stabilises piles in all depths required for underwater pile driving.  The operation was carried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schilling Robotics Opens New Facility in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced today the opening of a service and support operations in Brazil. This is a newly built 3000 ft 2 (278m 2 ) facility on the FMC Technologies campus in Macaé. This new facility is dedicated to providing customer support for Schilling products, including spares, repair, technical training, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BG Egypt: Gas Production Starts from WDDM 2nd Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BG Egypt announced gas production had started on 30 January 2012 from the second stage of West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Concession Phase 7, representing another successful milestone in the phased development of WDDM. Managed by the Joint Operating Company (JOC) Burullus Gas Company S.A.E. (EGPC 50%, BG Group 25%, PETRONAS 25%), the second stage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Ecosse to Showcase SCAR at AECC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aberdeen-based experts Ecosse Subsea Systems are preparing to showcase their innovative subsea technology at Europe’s largest conference and exhibition for the industry. During the Subsea 2012 event at Aberdeen Exhibition &#38; Conference Centre (AECC) on February 8th and 9th, Mike Wilson and his team will exhibit the wholly owned subsea trenching system SCAR which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWCS Bags Decom Gig in U.S. Gulf of Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wright&#8217;s Well Control Services (WWCS) has been awarded a contract from an operator in the Gulf of Mexico for the surface plug &#38; abandonment of sixteen wells. Work on this project will commence in the first quarter of 2012 and is expected to be completed by the end of June 2012. WWCS will use its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Petrobras Collects Spilled Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petrobras announces it has commenced the deployment of the Environmental Monitoring Plan in the Carioca Nordeste area, in the Santos Basin, where a pipeline ruptured last Jan. 31 on a FPWSO Dynamic Producer performing an Extended Well Test. The FPWSO is located approximately 300 kilometers off the coast of the state of São Paulo, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aker Solutions Takes Ghana Deepwater Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aker Solutions, a global provider of turnkey engineering and construction solutions for new builds, maintenance and modifications for the upstream oil and gas industry, has signed a frame agreement with Tullow Ghana Limited to provide well intervention services for the oil company&#8217;s Jubilee and Tano deepwater fields offshore Ghana, West Africa. The initial contract period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoegh LNG Orders Third FSRU from HHI, South Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Höegh LNG has, pursuant to a successful private placement, today exercised an option for a new FSRU to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. in Korea.  The FSRU will be delivered in the second quarter of 2014, and its specifications will be adapted to comply with relevant project requirements. Höegh LNG&#8217;s President and CEO, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: Total Triggers Hild Field Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[French oil giant, Total, operator of the Hild license, launches the development of Hild field located in the Norwegian North Sea. This development will represent an investment of US$4.2 billion (NOK 25.6 billion) and is subject to the approval of the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and Norwegian Parliament (Storting). Total holds a 51 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Searcher Starts Mariner 2D Non-Exclusive Seismic Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Searcher Seismic, an Australian-based company focused on either reprocessing existing regional datasets or acquiring new seismic data has begun with the Mariner 2D Non-Exclusive Seismic Survey. The survey comprises 3,100km of long offset 2D non-exclusive seismic data and 9,700km of reprocessing. Over 1,600km of new data has already been acquired. The survey is located in the Browse Basin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Cameron Reports Record Revenues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cameron, a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries, reported net income of $99.9 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, compared with net income in the prior year&#8217;s fourth quarter of $164.6 million, or $0.66 per diluted share. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Netherlands: Shell&#039;s Earnings Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal Dutch Shell&#8217;s fourth quarter 2011 earnings, on a current cost of supplies (CCS) basis, were $6.5 billion compared with $5.7 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Full year 2011 CCS earnings were $28.6 billion compared with $18.6 billion in 2010. Fourth quarter 2011 CCS earnings excluding identified items  were $4.8 billion compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diamond Offshore&#039;s 4Q Impacted by High Downtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. today reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2011 of $188 million, or $1.36 per share on a diluted basis, compared with net income of $242 million, or $1.74 per share on a diluted basis, in the same period a year earlier. Revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011 were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apache Hires Ulstein Design PSV for Work in UK North Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The platform supply vessel M/V Blue Fighter of PX121 design delivered by ULSTEIN in January has won a contract with American company Apache for work in the North Sea. The ship was delivered from Ulstein Verft to Blue Ship Invest on 19 January, and entered the spot market in the British North Sea sector directly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polarcus Gets LOI for Seismic Survey Off Greenland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UAE-based seismic specialist, Polarcus Limited has received a Letter of Intent from Shell Kanumas A/S for a nominal 8,500 sq. km 3D seismic acquisition project offshore Greenland. The project, to be acquired by two ICE-1A/1A* class vessels, POLARCUS AMANI and POLARCUS SAMUR, will commence in Q3 2012. Delivered Q1 2011 Polarcus Samur is an ultra-modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Chevron Awards Clough with USD 375 Million Wheatstone Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineering and construction company Clough Limited today announced the award of an approximate A$350 million (USD 375 million) contract for the offshore hook-up and commissioning component of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project. The services will be provided over a 40 month period commencing immediately. The agreed scope of work includes the provision of labour, materials and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: Statoil Orders Subsea Structures for Asgard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bergen Group Offshore has, through its subsidiary Bergen Group Rosenberg AS, been awarded a contract by Statoil for fabrication of subsea structures for the Åsgard Subsea Compression Project with an estimated value of 50 MNOK. The project involves delivery of 12 off PLEM structures (Pipeline End Manifold) and one riser base with a total estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska: Buccaneer Acquires Cosmo from Pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buccaneer Energy Limited has executed a Purchase and Sale Agreement for the acquisition of the two main productive leases in the former Cosmopolitan Unit (“Cosmo”) from  Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska, Inc. Cosmo is an undeveloped oil and gas field located in 50 feet of water in the Cook Inlet of Alaska and is in close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edison Chouest Orders PSV in Poland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING S.A has signed a contract for building of a Platform Supply Vessel for Edison Chouest Offshore from Louisiana, USA. New building vessel is continuation of the series of four units of the same type which has been started last year. She will be built according to the project elaborated by polish design office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: Aker Solutions Buys Sandnessjoen Engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aker Solutions acquires Norwegian engineering company Sandnessjøen Engineering. The acquisition will strengthen Aker Solutions&#8217; presence in northern Norway and grow the company&#8217;s engineering capacity for offshore projects. Over the past 20 years, Sandnessjøen Engineering has established a strong and experienced team, which supplies engineering and project management services to the oil and gas and construction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petrobras Working to Contain Oil Spill Offshore Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s largest oil company, Petrobras, announces that, since Tuesday (January 31) , it has adopted all contingency procedures in response to the rupture that took place in the vertical production testing column (connecting the platform to the wellhead) of FPWSO Dynamic Producer. The platform is operating in the Extended Well Test (EWT) that is underway [...]]]></description>
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