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Goliat FPSO audit reveals deficiencies

The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has asked Eni to act following an audit in May of the company’s management of emergency preparedness on the Goliat field FPSO in the Barents Sea. According to an August 22, 2018 report in Offshore, this exercise...

Saipem’s $275M Constellation pipelay for Liza 2 campaign

Saipem’s newly acquired US$275M Lewek Constellation vessel will be part of the Italian company’s fleet for the ExxonMobil-led Liza Phase 2 development offshore Guyana. The ultra-deepwater rigid and flexible pipelay heavy lift and construction vessel will join the Saipem FDS2...

US demand for oil expected to decline through 2022

US demand for crude petroleum is forecast to see marginal annual declines through 2022, according to Crude Petroleum: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. This drop will result from lower expected levels of gasoline demand, which...

BP’s $48.2 billion transformative deal that made history

Saturday, August 11 marked 20 years since British Petroleum plc announced that it would acquire the American oil giant Amoco. The deal was huge, marking the largest industrial merger at the time and the largest foreign takeover in the...

Kinley’s well control technology has advanced safety at oilfield operations

Challenges In the early days of the oil field, blowouts were common, but there were no well control companies around to handle them. Thousands of lives were lost as oil companies struggled to handle dangerous blowouts without the benefits...

Earthquake Watch: Refineries, O&G installations operating normally in Venezuela and Trinidad

In wake of a major earthquake measuring 7.3 in magnitude which struck Venezuela’s eastern coast at 5:31 pm on Tuesday, reports indicate that the country's oil refineries and oil fields were operating normally. Officials said there were no immediate reports...

Saipem secures US$700M in contracts for Liza Phase 2 development in Guyana

Saipem has been awarded contracts for the second phase of the ExxonMobil led Liza development offshore Guyana to the tune of 700 million USD. These contracts, assigned by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), an affiliate of ExxonMobil,...

Conoco to recover $2B in agreement with Venezuela

ConocoPhillips said it will receive $2 billion in a settlement with Petroleos de Venezuela SA, ending a dispute that’s severely crippled Venezuela’s ability to export the crude oil at the heart of its faltering economy. An international tribunal awarded the amount in...

North Sea union holds fifth day of strikes at Total O&G platforms

Total confirmed Monday its North Sea production, which feeds the Forties crude stream, had been shut down due to a fifth day of strike action by the Unite trade union, S&P Global Platts said in a report. The fields together...

Former Anadarko employee arrested for deaths on company property

A former employee of US oil company Anadarko Petroleum was taken into police custody after the bodies of his wife and two children were discovered on property owned by the company in Colorado. It is being reported that a...

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CNOOC’s record production in Guyana boosts strong Q3 results

CNOOC Limited announced its highest-ever net production and net profit for the third quarter of 2024, crediting increased output...