Wood Group has been awarded a new contract by PetroRio to deliver services to the Polvo A platform, in the southern Campos basin, approximately 100 kilometres off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Integrated operations and maintenance services will be…

Malaysian energy company Petronas has announced the start of oil production from Tanjong Baram field, offshore Malaysia. Production kicked off on August 18, 2015 but Petronas made the announcement on January 6, 2016. The field is operated under a Risk…

Jersey Oil & Gas, an independent upstream oil and gas company, has signed a sales and purchase agreement with Azinor Catalyst Limited (Catalyst) for the farm-out of its 50 percent interest in Seaward Production Licence P.1989 Blocks 14/11, 12 &…

Australia’s Woodside has informed that the Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Rakhine Basin, located in the western offshore area of Myanmar, has intersected a gross gas column of approximately 129 m. Approximately 15 m of…

Amec Foster Wheeler’s Clough AMEC joint venture has been awarded a three year contract by ConocoPhillips to provide asset support, operations and maintenance services to the Bayu-Undan offshore field development, located in the Timor Sea. The Bayu-Undan offshore facilities consist…

Songa Endurance semi-submersible drilling rig has today started drilling operations under its contract with Statoil in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The rig’s owner Songa Offshore broke the news on Thursday, saying that the rig “is now on…

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), on Tuesday announced first oil from the new Cladhan field development in the UK North Sea. The field is developed as a subsea tie-back to the Taqa-operated Tern Alpha platform. Peter Jones, Taqa’s UK…

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (MHB) has secured contracts worth RM 527 million ($122.5M) including a contract with Petronas. The contracts were secured through MHB’s wholly owned subsidiary, Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd (MMHE). The first…

Lundin Petroleum has completed the Rolvsnes exploration well 16/1-25 S, in the North Sea offshore Norway, as an oil discovery. The well was spud in October 2015. It is located in PL338C south of the Edvard Grieg field in the…

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit to Total E&P Norge AS for well 1/5-5 in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The well, 1/5-5 will be drilled from the Maersk Gallant jack-up drilling rig. The drilling program for…