Drilling & production - 15 February 2016

Haugesund mayor Arne-Christian Mohn started the machine cutting the steel for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform.

Bhagwan Marine has announced the signing of a multi-year, multi-vessel contract to provide marine support to American company, Foss Teras Marine.

Egdon Resources plc has announced the commencement of drilling operations at the Laughton-1 exploration well in UK Onshore Licence PEDL209 located in Lincolnshire.

API applauded the bipartisan passage of H.R. 644, Conference Report to Accompany the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act.

Statoil has signed a farm-in agreement with Tullow to acquire a 35% working interest in offshore exploration block 15 in the Pelotas basin, deepening its position in Uruguay.

This year's International Petroleum (IP) Week was held just two months after the historic COP21 agreement reached in Paris last December.

BP has committed to to extending the licence for Oman Block 61 and to develop second phase of major Khazzan gas field.

The programme was implemented by the Aberdeenshire based company in 2014.

The contract will cover the installation of the Optimarin Ballast System (OBS) on Østensjø Rederi’s Edda Fides.

Iran’s position in the international O&G market was expectedly one of the highlight topics of IP Week.

Instruments used to monitor seismicity in the oilfield played key role in major scientific discovery.

Amarinth has designed an innovative low-shear vertically mounted API 610 OH 1 pump for the produced water nutshell filters from AI Energy Solutions.

IP Week 2016 has shown that an energy transition is underway, with anticipated growth in renewables and nuclear in previously oil and gas dominated regions.