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Offshore vessel owner Bourbon has secured a contract with Shell to provide international freight forwarding, integrated logistics services, and platform supply vessel services to support two deepwater offshore exploration campaigns in Namibia and Sao Tomé. The project scope covers the international shipment and clearance of Shell's and its subcontractors’ equipment from Houston to Walvis Bay,... Continue Reading →
(OE) The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday it is responding to a drillship that reportedly sustained damage as Hurricane Ida ripped through the Gulf of Mexico and into Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. The agency said it was notified during the storm that the ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Globetrotter II had been damaged, and... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling equipment specialist Dril-Quip, has named Jeffrey J. Bird as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Effective as of January 1, 2022, he'll replace Blake T. DeBerry, who will step down at that time. DeBerry will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board until December 31,... Continue Reading →
Norwegian offshore vessel operator DOF Subsea has won more work in Brazil with Petrobras. After a recent three-year contract secured for a pipelay support vessel duo co-owned with TechnipFMC, DOF Subsea said Thursday it had secured a contract extension with Petrobras for the diving support vessel Skandi Achiever. The extension will see the Skandi Achiever... Continue Reading →
Italian oil company Eni on Wednesday announced a major oil discovery in block CI-101 offshore Ivory Coast. "The potential of the discovery can be preliminarily estimated at between 1.5 and 2.0 billion barrels of oil in place and between 1.8 and 2.4 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of associated gas," Eni said. The discovery well has... Continue Reading →
Oilfield services giant TechnipFMC has shed more light on vessel contracts it recently secured with Petrobras in Brazil in cooperation with the Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF. DOF last week said it had, in JV with TechnipFMC, secured three-year contracts for two pipelay support vessels Skandi Vitória and Skandi Niteroi, without sharing further details on the scope... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) granted the operating license for Petrobras to carry out the multiazimuth 3D and 4D seismic survey activity in the Albacora, Marlim and Voador fields, in the Campos Basin. The license is valid for 4 months. The new survey could be carried out using the... Continue Reading →
CRP Subsea has delivered more than 140 Distributed Buoyancy Modules (DBMs), said to be the biggest in the world, for the ultra-deepwaters in Brazil. In the ultra-deepwaters, the DBMs will be creating steel lazy wave riser (SLWR) configurations, protecting steel pipelines from stress and fatigue, CRP Subsea said. The project incorporates several rigid SLWR pipelines... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has spudded the Sapote-1 well on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana. This is the company's third well in the block drilled this year. The first two wells, Bulletwood-1 and Jabillo-1, failed to find evidence of commercial hydrocarbons. The news of the drilling startup was shared by Eco Atlantic, which, in turn, was informed of... Continue Reading →
(Offshore) Cyber defense provider Naval Dome and a major international operating company have completed a joint two-year project to identify and mitigate cyber risks common to deepwater drilling rigs. The project’s findings indicate that the minimum industry guidelines, regulations, and security techniques are out of step with current platform technology, connectivity requirements, and cyber-attack methodology. It culminated in... Continue Reading →
