Oil and gas industry news

Whale field FPU contract : Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters has bagged a contract from Shell Offshore to construct and integrate the topside and hull of a floating production unit (FPU) for the Whale field located in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). A final investment decision (FID) on the Whale field development is likely […]

Fluor Corporation revealed that Stork, a part of its diversified services segment, had bagged a five-year contract from EnQuest for multi-skilled deck crew services for its oil and gas assets in the northern and central North Sea, offshore UK. According to Fluor, the multi-skilled crew of Stork will deliver services for the Heather, Magnus, and […]

Epic Crude Holdings, a subsidiary of Epic Midstream, has opened a third open season for the 730-mile long Epic Crude Oil Pipeline in Texas, as per the latest midstream oil industry news. The open season for the crude oil pipeline will begin on 28 October 2019 and will end on 17 December 2019. According to […]

Kosmos Energy has claimed to have pulled off a major offshore gas discovery in Mauritania following the drilling of the Orca-1 exploration well in the BirAllah area. The US-based upstream company said that results from the drilling campaign continue the 100% success rate from nine wells that are targeting the inboard gas trend in Mauritania […]

Italian oil and gas giant Eni has pulled off the discovery of new resources in the Abu Rudeis Sidri development lease, in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt. The discovery was made by the Petrobel, the operating company, which is held equally by Eni and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), through the drilling of an […]

US LNG development company NextDecade, the owner of the Rio Grande LNG project in the US, has secured an investment of $50 million from Mubadala Investment Company, an Abu Dhabi based state-owned investor. In this connection, Mubadala Investment will take a minority stake in NextDecade at a price of $6.27 per share. The investment from […]

King’s Quay FPS Project : Murphy Oil has awarded a contract to Audubon Companies pertaining to the deepwater semi-submersible floating production system (FPS) to be used for the King’s Quay development in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract is for providing detailed engineering and design services, and also procurement and construction support Murphy Exploration […]

Kinder Morgan and EIG Global Energy Partners have commissioned the first of ten movable modular liquefaction system trains of the nearly $2 billion Elba Liquefaction Project, an LNG export project in Georgia, US. The LNG export facility in Georgia has been built at an existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal called Elba Terminal located near […]

McDermott International has bagged a fabrication subcontract, valued between $1m and $50m, for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project being developed by BP and its partners on the maritime border between Mauritania and Senegal. The contract is related to the subsea production system (SPS) of the Tortue/Ahmeyim project, which holds an estimated 15 trillion cubic feet […]

DOF Subsea has bagged a couple of contracts in Africa, totaling over 160 vessel days for its Skandi Seven construction support vessel and Skandi Skansen anchor handling tug supply vehicle. According to the Norwegian subsea operating company, Skandi Seven has started operations in Angola for a repeat customer, which is a global energy company. The […]