Aqualis Offshore Establishes Office in Australia
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has set up an office in Perth, Western Australia, to support oil and gas developments in the Australasia region.“We have supported important projects offshore Australia in recent years and believe it represents a market with good potential. There seems to be an increasing confidence in growth in offshore activity here…
Aqualis Offshore to Position Egina FPSO
Aqualis Offshore has been handed the position keeping role for installation of the floating production storage offloading unit (FPSO) at Total’s Egina field offshore Nigeria.EPCIC contractor for the $3.3 billion FPSO, Samsung Heavy Industries, has awarded the position keeping work to Aqualis Offshore. The newbuild Egina FPSO was towed…
DNV GL Bags Maersk Oil's Tyra Verification Service Contract
DNV GL has won a major contract to provide independent verification services for the Maersk Oil redevelopment of the Tyra field, offshore Denmark. The Tyra field in the Danish North Sea has been at the centre of Denmark’s national energy infrastructure since 1984, providing 90% of the country’s gas production. The contract will be coordinated by DNV GL in Denmark…
SensorView Reduces Non-productive Rig Time at Ichthys
Software that enables acoustic data to be streamed in real-time from subsea structures as they are installed has helped to reduce non-production time (NPT) for independent oil and gas producer, INPEX, and its survey contractor, Neptune Geomatics, during construction of the Ichthys gas field, offshore Western Australia. Supplied by subsea technology company Sonardyne Asia Pte.
Culzean Wellhead Jacket and Access Deck Set Sail
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has completed the project for the Culzean Wellhead jacket and Access Deck for client Maersk Oil. April 13 at Heerema Vlissingen, the Netherlands the Wellhead jacket and April 11 at Heerema Hartlepool, U.K. Wellhead Access Deck set sail to their final destination: the Ultra High Pressure High Temperature Culzean development field in the U.K.
Militants Attack Algerian BP/Statoil Gas Plant
Militants attacked an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP with rocket-propelled grenades on Friday, causing no casualties or damage but forcing the facility to be closed as a precaution. Algeria's energy infrastructure is heavily protected by the army especially since the 2013 Islamist militant attack on the In Amenas gas plant…
BP to further Develop Oman's Khazzan Gas Field
BP and Oman Oil today signed a heads of agreement with the Government of the Sultanate of Oman committing to amend the Oman Block 61 exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA), extending the licence area of the block and enabling a further development of the major Khazzan tight gas field. BP is the operator of Block 61 with a 60% interest and Oman Oil holds the other 40%.
ExxonMobil starts Banyu Urip CPF
ExxonMobil announced today the successful and safe startup of the onshore central processing facility at the Banyu Urip field in Indonesia, helping increase production to more than 130,000 barrels of oil per day. With the central processing facility now online, production will continue to increase in the coming months. Once full field production is reached…
DNV GL Wins Ichthys LNG project Contract
DNV GL has secured a contract to provide in-service verification and classification services to a range of facilities at the Ichthys LNG project in Australia. The contract marks INPEX’s commitment to continue working with DNV GL as it prepares to transition from the project execution phase to the operational phase of the mega project.
Sembcorp Unit Wins $1 bln Maersk North Sea Deal
Sembcorp Marine subsidiary SMOE Pte Ltd has secured an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract worth over USD One billion (including long lead items) from Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited. The contract includes the building of the Central Processing Facility plus 2 connecting bridges, Wellhead Platform and Utilities & Living Quarters Platform Topsides for the Culzean Field Development.
SharpEye VTS Radar for FPSO
Kelvin Hughes has supplied two SBS-800 SharpEye series radars for the Ichthys LNG project located 220km off the shore of Western Australia in the Browse basin. The radars will be installed on both the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel and the Central Processing Facility (CPF), the CPF and FPSO will be stationed about 3.5 km apart on the Ichthys field.
San Leon Update on Rawicz-12
San Leon Energy plc announced an update to the results of the Rawicz-12 well test in Poland. Following the Company’s announcements dated 25 February and 6 March 2015, describing the highly positive preliminary well test results for Rawicz-12, Ryder Scott Company has finalised a Competent Persons Report (“CPR”) on the Rawicz Gas field for Palomar Natural Resources (“PNR”), the operator.
ExxonMobil Resumes Drilling at Point Thomson
ExxonMobil announced today that it has resumed drilling at Point Thomson on Alaska’s North Slope as construction continues toward bringing the initial production system online. “The Point Thomson field is a vital part of unlocking Alaska’s North Slope gas resources,” said Jim Flood, ExxonMobil Development Company’s arctic vice president.
Genel Energy Trading & Operations Update
Genel Energy plc issues the following trading and operations update in advance of the Company's full-year 2014 results, which are scheduled for release on 5 March 2015. The information contained herein has not been audited and may be subject to further review. * Gross production from Taq Taq averaged 103,000 bopd in 2014, an increase of 34% on 2013.
McDermott Delivers RSS for Ichthys LNG Project
McDermott International, Inc. has delivered the riser support structure (RSS) for the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s subsea umbilical, riser, flowline development. “The completion of the RSS fabrication, load-out and successful installation is a major milestone,” said Tony Duncan, Executive Vice President Subsea. “Few companies in the industry have the capability to deliver a full engineer…
Foster Wheeler Wins EPCm Contract In Mozambique
Foster Wheeler AG 's subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services contract by Sasol Petroleum Temane Limitada (“Sasol”) for an Electrical Expansion and Fuel Gas Superheater Project at Sasol’s Temane gas processing facility in Mozambique.
Mnazi Bay Gas Deal Signed
Maurel & Prom announced that, along with Mnazi Bay license partners Wentworth and Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), it has signed a gas sales and purchase agreement with TPDC for the long-term sale of natural gas from the Mnazi Bay and Msimbati fields in southern Tanzania to the government owned and operated Mtwara…
Wentworth Sees Surging Cash Flow After Tanzania Gas Deal
Oil explorer Wentworth Resources expects its cash flow to surge from the first quarter of next year as it earns revenues from a new gas sales deal at its Mnazi Bay and Msimbati Gas fields in Tanzania, it said on Monday. Tanzania signed an agreement with French oil producer Maurel et Prom and Wentworth for the supply of gas aimed at doubling the country's power generation capacity to 3,000 megawatts by 2016.
Shell Lifts First Crude Oil from Majnoon Oilfield
Shell announced today that the Majnoon oilfield it operates in partnership with South Oil Company (SOC), Petronas and Missan Oil in Southern Iraq has successfully exported its first shipment of crude oil to Shell trading, a significant milestone for the oilfield. The achievement comes as production at the Majnoon oilfield has reached a current average of 210…
