Total E&P has commissioned Vroon Offshore’s walk-to-work vessel VOS Start to provide offshore logistical support for a maintenance campaign in the Dutch North Sea. The vessel, equipped with a 50-metric ton (55-ton) active heave-compensated crane and accommodating up to 60 people, is designed to…
Noble Energy, as operator of Alen gas project offshore Equatorial Guinea has signed definitive agreements with Marathon Oil and Equatorial Guinea government to develop the fields gas resources via through Alba Plant LLC’s LPG processing plant and EG LNG’s LNG production facility, both located in…
Neptune Energy and partners plan to start production from high-pressure, high-temperature Seagull oil field in the Central UK North Sea by the end of 2021. Neptune, the operator, said they have made the final investment decision and applied to the Oil and Gas Authority…
Vestas has received a milestone order from Hirtshals Havnefond for a 17 MW project in Denmark that will be the country’s first utility-scale subsidy free wind park. Located directly on the waterfront in the Port of Hirtshals in the north-western part of Denmark, Vestas…
Block Energy, the exploration and production company focused on the Republic of Georgia, has announced that production testing at well 16a at its West Rustavi field delivered a test flow rate of an average 1,100 bbl/d versus the previously announced target production rate of 325…
Off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville and Mozambique, four floating liquid natural gas liquefaction plants will be in operation by 2022, in readiness to process new supplies of African natural gas. Compared with onshore liquefaction facilities, FLNG liquefaction plants are…
On the 28th March Iraq announced the completion of the “technical preparations” to extend a pipeline to export one million barrels of oil per day through Jordan, Petra has reported. “The export capacity of the Basra-Aqaba pipeline, which runs through Jordan, is expected to…
Damen has launched Bibby Marine Services’ second service operations vessel (SOV) 9020 at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania. During the same event, the vessel was officially named Bibby WaveMaster Horizon. Upon delivery later this year, the SOV will begin maintenance work on two EnBW…
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has signed a bill prohibiting offshore drilling in Oregon waters. In a statement on the 27th March, the governor’s office said the governor signed the Senate Bill 256 into law, “creating a new line of defence against offshore oil and…
Shell has hired offshore installation and construction company Subsea 7 for work on the Arran gas condensate field development in the UK North Sea. Subsea 7 will be responsible for the project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 60 kilometres of mechanically lined…
