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Total announced that front-end engineering and design (FEED) has begun for the North Platte discovery, located in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The North Platte field straddles four blocks of the Garden Banks area, 275 kilometers off the coast of Louisiana in approximately 1,300 meters of water. The reservoir
By Matt Craven, Founder of The CV & Interview Advisors on behalf of oilandgaspeople.com Oil & Gas Professionals are typically a savvy bunch when it comes to the job market, but in a rapidly evolving landscape, keeping abreast of change is absolutely crucial to success. We have identified eight common mistakes that both contractors and
French oil giant Total has acquired interests in two new licenses offshore Angola in view of developing a new production hub. In addition, Total has extended all Block 17 production licenses until 2045. Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total. Source: Wikimedia; Author: Jérémy Barande – under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license Total said on
Vår Energi has submitted a development plan for the Balder Future project that is expected to prolong the production lifetime of the Balder and Ringhorne fields’ production lifetime to 2045. The revised plan for Development and Operations for Balder and Ringhorne was submitted to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Tuesday. It is
Australia’s Woodside has moved forward with the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) phase of its A-6 development offshore Myanmar, with the ultimate goal of developing Myanmar’s first ultra-deep-water resource. The development, located in Block A-6 within Woodside’s Southern Hub, is being progressed alongside joint venture participants MPRL E&P Pte Ltd and Total E&P Myanmar, Woodside said.
UK subsea engineering and construction services company Subsea 7 has been awarded a sizeable contract by COOEC for CNOOC’s Lingshui 17-2 gas field development project offshore China. Subsea 7 defines a sizeable contract as being between $50 million and $150 million. The Lingshui 17-2 field is located in the South China Sea approximately 150km offshore
U.S. oil major Chevron has awarded a contract to build a hull for the Anchor project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). DSME will build the hull for the semi-submersible floating production unit for Chevron’s Anchor project. The contract award meant the end of a five-year
Offshore supply vessel ‘Stril Myster’ possibly lost control while maneuvering in Aberdeen Harbor, and allides with berthed offshore supply ships Edda Ferd and Skandi Aukra An investigation has been launched following a collision between huge offshore supply vessels in Aberdeen Harbor. 2003 built Stril Myster, owned by a Norwegian company ‘Simon Mokster Shipping AS’ has
Danish offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has secured a three-well contract for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer with BP for development drilling at the Matapal project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Maersk Drilling said on Tuesday that the contract has an estimated duration of 322 days and is expected to start in July 2020. The value
Energy equity carnage was alive and well throughout 2019, and the start of 2020 could bring more of the same for the beaten-up sector, though some analysts are turning positive. “We are in an environment where the playbook to kick off the year reads like a rinse and repeat from past years,” CIBC Capital Markets’