Offshore Construction News
| Malaysia >> 9/5/2008 - Scorpion Offshore signed a contract with Sarawak Shell Berhad / Sabah Shell Petroleum Company for the Offshore Courageous for operations offshore Malaysia beginning in January 2009. The contract is fo... |
| Egypt >> 7/30/2008 - VetcoGray, a GE Oil & Gas business, applied its latest technology to overcome unique challenges, reduce project costs and risks, and successfully convert an exploration well to full production service... |
| Angola >> 7/29/2008 - Subsea 7 confirmed that its recently announced major contract award in Africa is a framework agreement with BP Angola Ltd. Subsea 7's agreement with BP is for call-off services in support of its devel... |
| Angola >> 7/28/2008 - Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola - Sonangol E.P., has authorised BP and its co-venturers to develop a series of deepwater oil discoveries in offshore Angola's Block 31. The Block 31 develo... |
| Angola >> 7/28/2008 - Sonangol has given the go-ahead for the development of a series of deepwater oil discoveries in Block 31, offshore Angola. StatoilHydro has a 13.33 percent stake in the licence, for which BP is operat... |
| Angola >> 7/18/2008 - BW Offshore received a Letter of Award (LoA) from Total Exploration & Production Angola for the engineering, procurement and fabrication of a Buoy Turret Loading (BTL(TM)) system for the PAZFLOR proje... |
| Nigeria >> 5/20/2008 - Acergy S.A. announced the award of a contract valued at approximately $50 million for the fabrication, assembly and testing of eight manifolds and support structures, eight suction piles, twenty-three... |
| Russia >> 5/5/2008 - McDermott International announced that subsidiaries of J. Ray McDermott, S.A. ("J. Ray") were recently awarded two contracts for offshore construction projects. Both of the contracts will be included ... |
| Tunisia >> 4/25/2008 - OMV Aktiengesellschaft acquired an 80% interest as operator in the "Sidi Mansour" exploration license in offshore Tunisia from Thani Tunisia Sidi Mansour B.V.. The block covers an area of 6,592 km˛ an... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 4/21/2008 - Halliburton has been selected to provide a variety of oilfield services in support of the offshore portion of Saudi Aramco's Manifa mega-project. The Manifa project has a production target of 900 MBCD... |
| Morocco >> 4/11/2008 - Island Oil & Gas announced that the Ministre de l’Energie, des Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environment of Morocco has formally approved the ‘Tarfaya Onshore’ Petroleum Agreement (the ‘Permit’) awarded to ... |
| Nigeria >> 4/3/2008 - Hardy Oil and Gas announced that has executed an agreement to farm-out a 20 percent interest in the Oza field located onshore Nigeria. The farmee is Emerald Energy Resources Limited ("Emerald"), a pro... |
| United States >> 4/1/2008 - Total announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Total E&P USA Inc., was the highest bidder in the lease sale 206 on 13 blocks in the Central Gulf of Mexico. Situated in deep waters (1,500 to 2,000 m... |
| China >> 3/26/2008 - Nexans has signed a three-year contract worth $13.4 million to supply 3,146 km of its special marine cables to be installed on offshore oil and gas marine services company Bourbon Offshore’s vessels.<... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 3/19/2008 - Sea Island No. 4 is back in service after the completion of three significant capital projects and a scheduled Test and Inspection (T&I), the Terminal Department has announced. “The quality and safety... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 3/11/2008 - Global Industries announced that two of its subsidiaries have received contract awards worth a total of approximately $35 million. One contract calls for the transportation and installation of seven j... |
| Nigeria >> 3/11/2008 - Addax Petroleum Corporation announced the successful appraisal of and addition to the Kita Marine discovery. The recently completed KTM-6 well encountered an aggregate gross oil column of 173 feet ove... |
| Vietnam >> 3/4/2008 - Essar Exploration & Production Limited (EEPL) has been awarded an offshore block in Vietnam’s prolific Song Hong basin. Admeasuring approximately 5925 sq km, the block was awarded under a recent licen... |
| Nigeria >> 3/3/2008 - Afren has signed Production Sharing Contracts (“PSC”) for OPL 917 and OPL 907, within the Anambra basin, onshore Nigeria. Highlights Afren through a Joint Venture (“JV”) with Gl... |
| Thailand >> 2/28/2008 - Carnarvon Petroleum announced that exploration activities are about to commence on the L20/50 Concession. The L20/50 concession is a large 3,947 km2 block area located in the southern extent of the Ph... |
