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Daily Archives: October 5, 2017
Maersk Drilling brings back another rig as new gig comes in
By Offshore Energy Today.. Maersk Drilling-owned semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Deliverer has been awarded a new contract by JX Nippon with an estimated duration of 30 days. Maersk Deliverer is the fifth rig that Maersk Drilling has reactivated from warm stacking within the past eight months. The contract covers the drilling of one well and…
Petrobras gets local content waiver for Libra hull
By Offshore Energy Today.. Brazil’s state-owned oil giant Petrobras has been given permission not to use a local yard for the construction of a platform hull to be used for the development of the Libra Pilot project in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. Petrobras informed on Thursday that, as the operator of the Libra Consortium,…
Exxon keeps drilling, Guyana keeps giving
By Offshore Energy Today U.S. oil major ExxonMobil on Thursday announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana. Turbot adds to Exxon’s previous discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek and Liza Deep wells in the Stabroek Block. Following completion of the Turbot-1 well, the Stena Carron drillship will move…
UK court sanctions Wood Group-Amec FW merger scheme
By Offshore Energy Today.. A UK court has sanctioned the scheme of arrangement related to Wood Group’s proposed takeover of rival Amec Foster Wheeler. The combination of the two oilfield services providers will become effective on Friday, October 6, following the delivery of the court order. Wood Group launched the offer for Amec Foster Wheeler…
Pemex finds two partners for onshore blocks. Zero bids for offshore asset
By Offshore Energy Today Mexico on Wednesday organized a bidding for oil companies interested to partner with Pemex for three blocks in Mexico. Three blocks were put on offer, one offshore and two onshore. The shallow water offshore block, containing Ayin and Batsil fields, received no bids. The area was previously described by Pemex as…
BP secures more than $1 billion for six LNG newbuilds
By LNG World News Image courtesy of BPUK-based energy giant and LNG player, BP, tied two finance partners KMarin and ICBC Leasing to invest over $1 billion into the six LNG carriers being built at DSME. The six LNG carriers have been ordered in 2014 at the South Korean shipbuilder as the company looked to…
Bumi allows one-off Oyo cargo offtake to Erin to enable debt payment
By Offshore Energy Today.. Malaysian FPSO provider Bumi Armada has allowed Erin Energy to flow its oil from the Oyo field offshore Nigeria into the Armada Perdana FPSO cargo tanks and a one-off cargo offtake despite Erin’s outstanding debts towards the FPSO owner. As a reminder, Bumi Armada suspended the bareboat charter and operations and…
Dutch firm retrieves broken off gangway offshore Brazil
By _Offshore_Energy_Today_ OOS International’s semi-submersible crane, construction, and accommodation vessel, the OOS Gretha, has completed a subsea lift of a broken off gangway offshore Brazil. OOS International said that the OOS Gretha completed the gangway lift on September 29 in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. According to the Dutch provider of offshore accommodation solutions, the…
Iran E&P Session at OEEC 2017
By Offshore Energy Today Organizers of the Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference in Amsterdam have announced that a side event will be added to the conference program next week. The session is focused on Iran and will cover several E&P topics. Wednesday 11 October | 10:00 – 11:15 | Europe Foyer room 2 Introduction to…