Offshore Oil & Gas Production News

DNO says this spring it plans to start re-development of the Saleh field, 45 km (28 mi) offshore Ras al Khaimah, UAE.

Technip (Paris:TEC) has named its newest offshore construction vessel at an unveiling ceremony at the Metalships & Docks shipyard in northern Spain.

Proserv has won two subsea control contracts in the North Sea worth a combined value of more than $23.4 million.

Nasir K. Al-Naimi, vice president of Northern Area Oil Operations, recently took a crowd of Offshore Middle East Conference and Exhibition participants on a historical journey through Saudi Aramco’s investment in offshore operations.

Oceaneering International (NYSE:OII) is to supply umbilicals for BP’s Quad 204 field development west of Shetland under a $45 million-plus contract.

Sembcorp Marine subsidiary SMOE has a letter of intent to build the topsides for the Ivar Aasen platform in the Norwegian North Sea.

Antrim Energy (LON:AEY) has submitted to the UK government a draft field development plan for the Fyne field in the UK northern North Sea.

Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria has contracted Subsea 7 (Oslo Børs:SUBC) for subsea installations on the Erha North field development offshore Nigeria.

Shell U.K. (NYSE:RDS.A) has awarded Technip (PARIS:TEC) an engineering, procurement, installation, and construction contract for the Gannet F reinstatement project in the UK central North Sea.

Production has been restored from the largest of three drill centers at the Terra Nova complex offshore Newfoundland, following completion of a dockside maintenance program on the FPSO.

Apache North Sea has awarded Flexlife a one-year extension to a three-year subsea integrity and project management contract.

Stork Technical Services has won more than £15 million ($23 million) in work for a major North Sea operator.

Marubeni Corp. has agreed to acquire 49% interest in Williams Partners' (NYSE:WPZ) first Gulfstar FPS project.

Cameron (NYSE: CAM) has announced an agreement with China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) to establish a joint venture for the manufacture of pipeline ball valves.

This week at the Topsides, Platforms & Hulls Conference & Exhibition in Galveston, Texas, Bluebeam Software is exhibiting its Revu solution for digitizing communications between offshore and onshore teams.

Vicinay is to supply anchor chains for the mooring lines of INPEX’s Ichthys LNG project offshore northwest Australia.

Ulstein has held a naming ceremony for its latest inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) vessel.

Dana Gas has reached an agreement with the emirates of Sharjah and Ajman concerning development of the offshore Zora gas field.

Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd. has made early delivery to Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical Ltd. of an HD3 cable plow.

Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Marathon Oil Norge to deliver subsea trees to the Alvheim field on the Norwegian continental shelf.

A steady stream of new development projects should stabilize production offshore Norway, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

This month Infield Systems looks at planned field developments within the Asia/Pacific region; a key global growth market in terms of offshore production and energy demand over the next five years.

Umbilicals are custom designed to meet the needs of each specific field development.

Subsea oil and gas operations are moving into deeper water and tapping reservoirs well below the seafloor.