Wishing to increase performance and quality of the company’s consultancy within Pipelines & Subsea projects, Ramboll Oil & Gas has appointed Lars Eriksen to a newly established position as Project Director. The Pipelines & Subsea department in Copenhagen is now lead by Søren Skovgård Møller. This organisational up scaling is due to recent positive business [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]
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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’s President and CEO, [...]
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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 [...]
Brazil’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 [...]
A new low friction, non-porous, wear resistant tungsten carbide coating from Hardide Coatings has enabled UNITECH Offshore AS to design a unique ROV-operated subsea high-pressure connector with integrated ball valve for use in critical production applications including wellhead control, gas lift and chemical injection. The UH-500 connector integrates a 2” reduced bore ball valve into [...]
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IEV International Limited (“IEV International”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IEV Holdings Limited (“IEV”), received the second award this month to supply its Marine Growth Prevention (“MGP”) technology to new structures located offshore India. In this award from McDermott Middle East Inc., IEV International will provide and install its proprietary “ocean-powered” Marine Growth Prevention systems on [...]
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EnQuest PLC (‘EnQuest’) today announces that it has completed the acquisition of two companies from Canamens Limited, whose assets include the 20% interest in the Kraken offshore oil discovery. This agreement was announced on 9 January 2012 under which EnQuest would pay an initial consideration of US$45 million dollars in cash and a further US$45 [...]
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