Independent Oil and Gas plans to drill the Skipper appraisal well
Independent Oil and Gas discloses plans to drill the Skipper appraisal well and its forward funding plans to mid-2018...

Suncor Energy completes drilling of wildcat well 25/10-14 S
Pakistan's OGDCL discoveres gas at exploratory Thal East Well...
Premier Oil confirms oil discovery at Isobel Deep re-drill
Senex expects good results from Ethereal-1 drilling
Drillsearch cased and suspended Bauer-24 and Bauer-25 as future production wells

JX Nippon awards drilling contract to Odfjell Drilling
JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) Limited has awarded Odfjell Drilling's semi-submersible Deepsea Stavanger a contract for drilling one exploration well located...

Seadrill and DSME agree to defer delivery of drillships
Raise Production updates on horizontal wellbore production...
Ezion secures agreement to jointly market two service rigs being built by a Chinese SOE

CIS Group completes second installation on Southern North Sea gas development
Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company that provides hammer services to install conductors and drive piles, has successfully completed its second conductor installation...

SapuraKencana Petroleum wins contracts worth $117 million
Neptune awarded Chevron diving contract
Maersk Oil awards Peterson five-year integrated logistics contract
iSURVEY awarded contract with Nexans Norway AS
Valmec secures New Zealand supply contract
Wood Group appointed as owner’s engineer for West Texas Renewable and Gas Monetization project

Aker Solutions repositions MMO business in Norway
Aker Solutions has notified employees in its maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) unit across Norway of necessary steps to reposition the business and enhance competitiveness in a market with unprecedented challenges. The company is streamlining the Norwegian MMO business to one regional unit from previously four, affecting management and staff from Tromsø to Stavanger...

HitecVision merges three oil companies and invests NOK 3.5 bn
Statoil purchases minority sake in Lundin Petroleum
Empyrean Energy to sell Sugarloaf AMI project for up to $71.5 mill
Rosneft and BP to dissolve Joint Venture in Germany
Azonto working on disposal of oil and gas activities in West Africa
Gran Tierra completes the acquisition of Petroamerica
Halliburton and Baker Hughes respond to EC action
Premier Oil agrees to acquire all of E.ON’s UK North Sea assets

New energy business

FRV begins operation of La Jacinta solar plant in Uruguay
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures B.V. (FRV), a leading global developer of utility-scale photovoltaics (PV) solar power plants and part of Abdul Latif Jameel Energy and Environmental Services...

TransAlta declares key actions to support transition to Clean Power
Clean energy to conquer new markets in 2016
DNV GL releases one-stop guideline for safe and reliable grid-connected energy storage systems

Production

NPD declares December 2015 production figures
Preliminary production figures for December 2015 show an average daily production of about 2 023 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate...

Misen Energy declarees December 2015 production
TennStar Energy acquires a stake in 21 well lease in Caldwell...
Mitra Energy gets approval for Vietnam gas development plan
Wentworth Resources updates Q4 2015 gross gas production

Technology

MR Solutions partners with Green Imaging to bring better rock core imaging solution to oil and gas sector
A new 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) solution, the ImaCore 3017, is being introduced to the oil and gas sector for high resolution rock core imaging. MR Solutions, of Guildford, UK in...

Chariot Oil & Gas commences 3D seismic programme in Namibia
Suretank re-designs product range to create competitive...
IMarEST Student members win national awards for marine...
Ashtead deal with nCentric to supply cutting edge wireless...
ExxonMobil, Hunting’s Titan division to develop autonomous tools technology

Shipping / Yard News

BBC Chartering awarded TOYO volume contract
BBC Chartering says that is was awarded a strategic volume contract from TOYO Engineering Corporation (Japan), a plant engineering company. Closed already in 2015, the agreement...

Protea supplies three cranes for Martin Linge Field FSO
Maritime sector must absorb balance sheet implications of new lease accounting standard

General News

Aquatic joins DNV GL in JIP on development of codes for cable and pipe laying equipment
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, is working with DNV GL and other organisations in the subsea supply chain, on a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to develop a set of guidelines to be incorporated into new or existing DNV GL Offshore Standards or Recommended...

'It’s Time for Transformation’ Says Subsea UK
AEG Power Solutions strengthens its management team
Gulf Coast Western to develop large acreage in Louisiana
Subsea UK supports South West businesses
Rockhopper completes pre-FEED work for Phase 1a of Sea Lion...
Industry body responds to increased demand for decommissioning knowledge

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