COSL has announced that its COSLRival accommodation rig has been awarded a contract extension by BP with a firm duration of 12 months. Previously the firm duration was 6 months and 20 days. The rig will be used at BP’s Magnus field in the UK sector of the North Sea. The contract is expected to [...]
Island Offshore, a leading name in global Light Well Intervention (“LWI”) activities, has been awarded a major contract extension with BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. The two-year contract extension, covering 2014 and 2015, has been awarded to Island Offshore and the North Sea RLWI Alliance, which operates three monohull vessels specially designed for well intervention [...]
On April 17, CNPC Chairman Zhou Jiping met with BP’s Group Chief Executive Bob Dudley in Beijing. They had an in-depth discussion on cooperation concerning the upstream and downstream business in China, the Rumaila project in Iraq, and other matters. Zhou expressed that CNPC will keep promoting mutually beneficial cooperation with IOCs to realize common [...]
Viking Supply Ships Ltd has entered into a contract with BP UK for two Platform Supply Vessels: Idun Viking and SBS Tempest Idun Viking is fixed firm until July 31, 2013 plus options with start the end of March 2013. SBS Tempest is fixed firm until January 31, 2014 plus options with start in direct [...]
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a two-year integrated services contract renewal by BP to provide operations, maintenance and project support to the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea. The contract is valued at between £10 million and £15 million per year, depending on activity levels and is [...]
Vroon Offshore Services has announced that the company has secured a long-term contract with BP for the provision of platform-supply and emergency response and rescue services on the UK continental shelf. These services will be undertaken by A- and B-Class field-support vessels and a platform-supply vessel. In due course one of the field-support vessels will [...]
North Star Shipping, a division of the family-owned global shipping and energy services firm The Craig Group, has been awarded a major contract with BP with a value of £63million. The multi-service contract is for five years with a possible extension of five years and includes tanker assist, platform supply and emergency and response rescue [...]
GL Noble Denton has signed a new agreement with BP in a move that will see the independent technical advisor become a preferred supplier of vendor inspection services across BP’s global portfolio of upstream assets. The three-year deal will allow GL Noble Denton to become one of a small number of inspection specialists to assess [...]
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a five-year contract with BP to provide well intervention services to BP in the US Gulf of Mexico with Helix’s deepwater well intervention semisubmersible vessel, the Q5000, currently being constructed in Singapore. The contract is for a minimum 270 days each year and [...]
Faroe Petroleum, an independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, has announced the results of the North Uist exploration prospect west of Shetland (Faroe 6.25%). The 213/25c-1V exploration well, operated by BP, targeted several reservoir objectives, the most significant of [...]
