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Wärtsilä to deliver generating sets for two well-intervention vessels for Siem Offshore
Posted on 04 July 2014 in Drilling It Safely, Global and Regional Markets, News, The Offshore Frontier
Wärtsilä has received an order to deliver generating sets for two new well-intervention vessels for Siem Offshore from Norway. The vessels are under construction…
Pre-salt Santos, Campos basins surpass 500,000 bbls of oil/day
Posted on 03 July 2014 in Global and Regional Markets, News, The Offshore Frontier
Oil production in the pre-salt Santos and Campos Basins have surpassed 500,000 bbl/day (bpd),topping-out at 520,000 bpd on 24 June and setting a new daily output record…
Wood Group Kenny wins subsea engineering services contract for Ghana
Posted on 03 July 2014 in News, The Offshore Frontier
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has been awarded an engineering services contract to support Tullow Ghana Ltd and its partners through the execution phase…
Gazprom Neft begins exploratory drilling in the Arctic
Posted on 03 July 2014 in Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
Gazpromneft-Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has started drilling a new exploration well in the Dolginskoye field on the continental shelf in the Pechora sea…
GE wins PEMEX surface wellhead, tree contract for GOM project
Posted on 25 June 2014 in Drilling It Safely, Global and Regional Markets, News, The Offshore Frontier
GE Oil & Gas has signed a multi-year agreement with PEMEX to supply and install surface wellheads and trees for an offshore project in the Campeche Sound Ayatsil field in the…
Collaboration among operator, contractor, service company provides MPD functionality to drillship
Posted on 25 June 2014 in Exclusive Video, Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
As operators face increasingly challenging reservoirs, conventional technologies are becoming inefficient in safely achieving well objectives on time and on budget. To address…
IHS: Rising operating costs challenge outlook for offshore rig market
Posted on 25 June 2014 in News, The Offshore Frontier, Videos
The strength of dayrates for offshore rigs in recent years has attracted significant investment and a spate of orders for newbuilds – particularly premium jackups, Tom Kellock…
Maersk Drilling orders 20K BOP, risers for BP project
Posted on 24 June 2014 in Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
Maersk Drilling has ordered four BOPs and two risers from GE Oil and Gas that will be used in the Project 20K partnership with BP. The BOPs and risers will be delivered…
UK approves Premier Oil to develop Catcher area in North Sea
Posted on 12 June 2014 in Global and Regional Markets, News, The Offshore Frontier
Premier Oil has received approval of its Catcher area field development plan from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. “The Catcher area development shows that…
Hercules, Maersk Oil sign 5-year deal for newbuild jackup
Posted on 22 May 2014 in Global and Regional Markets, News, The Offshore Frontier
Hercules Offshore has signed a five-year drilling contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK for a newbuild jackup to be owned and operated by Hercules Offshore. Total contract…
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