Offshore news

Chief Executive Officer, Tony O'reilly, comments on the company's progress in 2016 and drilling plans for 2017.

Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL has announced the awarding of a contract for the drilling of two offshore exploration wells located in the XV Midia Shallow Block, Romanian Black Sea continental shelf, to GSP Offshore SRL.

Aker BP ASA is the operator of production licence 442 in the North Sea. Aker BP has made a discovery in a prospect named Frigg Gamma Delta, around 20 km east of the Frigg field.

Independent geoscience and engineering service provider, Next Geosolutions, has announced the acquisition of UK-based marine resource solutions company, RMS Submarine Ltd.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the Edvard Grieg Southwest appraisal well 16/1-27.

Wood Group has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide front end engineering design (FEED) to the subsea flowline system of the Snorre Expansion Project in the Norwegian North Sea.

TMC Compressors (TMC) has been awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DMSE) to supply a marine compressed air system to a new-build floating storage and regasification unit (FRSU).

Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it secured a contract from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to supply the umbilical for Anadarko’s Constellation subsea tieback in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The contract is to cover the provision of engineering, procurement support and project management services for pre-FEED (front end engineering and design) and FEED work across a range of projects.

ABB has signed a framework agreement with Aker BP ASA for Electrical, Instrument, Control and Telecommunications (EICT) set to contribute to improved project execution.