Drilling & production

MacGregor has secured a new contract from Chinese shipbuilder, Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Ltd for two 100 t active heave-compensated subsea cranes.

PetroNeft has announced a number of significant actions following the completion of the Licence 61 Farmout to Oil India Limited.

Cegal and Blueback Reservoir join forces to create a global partner for the oil and gas industry.

The contract will involve the supply of technology to 35 Statoil assets.

The company has agreed to sell the Ash Creek oilfield.

BHP Billiton is pursuing options to make the company simpler and more productive.

The 2014 resource evaluation was prepared by Petrotech Engineering Ltd. with an effective date of March 31, 2014.

The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association is developing an application for defining business and data rules.

Oilfield support services company ASCO has opened its new Marine Supply Base in Darwin, Australia.

Alliant has said that Indonesia and Vietnam pose high risk for oil and gas companies, and investors and overconfident in Egypt.

Repsol has recently run Tenaris' BlueDock™ connectors with elastomeric seals in Trinidad and Tobago.

PIRA Energy Group looks at movements in the oil sector over the last week.

The President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, and Eni’s Chief Executive Officer, Claudio Descalzi, met in Libreville.

FMC Technologies has received an order for five subsea manifolds from Petrobras, for its pre-salt fields located offshore Brazil.

Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, has officially opened the Gudrun platform in the North Sea.