The COSLGift, an independent leg cantilever jackup rig, has been delivered, and is enroute to Southeast Asia, China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL) announced. COSL acquired the COSLGift and its sister rig COSLHunter (pictured) in August 2013鈥
Colloquy: Editor鈥檚 Column As we start a new year at OE, we offer projections from companies about projects and markets. This issue features a Global Market Forecast, with analysts from Infield Systems, DouglasWestwood, and Petroleum Geo-Services weighing in about exploration鈥
Technip and China's China 云顶赌场老虎机 Oil Engineering Co. Ltd (COOEC) have signed an joint-venture agreement in September. The five-year agreement will target deepwater engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) subsea umbilicals risers鈥
Keppel FELS Ltd has said it is to start building its CAN DO drillship design, with a 2016 completeion date. No secure contract has been secured for the vessel yet. Keppel FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel 云顶赌场老虎机 & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M)鈥
GE's Power Conversion business is to supply of dynamic positioning (DP) for a floating accommodation unit being built by Cosco (Nantong) Shipyard in Nantong City, China. The vessel is being built for Logitel 云顶赌场老虎机, the Singapore-based floating logistics and accommodation rig owner鈥
CGG surveys GOM for Pemex CGG has been selected to carry out a large high-end seismic acquisition survey in the Gulf of Mexico on behalf of Pemex. The survey, in Mexican waters, is phase 5 in Pemex鈥檚 Centauro program, the largest ever鈥
Transboundary may head to committee The US Senate bill ratifying the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement, S. 812, is reportedly on its way to a conference committee. The Senate鈥檚 version of the bill, passed last month (October)鈥
Colloquy: Editor鈥檚 Column BP will invest US$100 million in high-performance computing over five years, and part of that is being spent on a new facility at the Westlake campus in Houston, housing the world鈥檚 largest super computer for鈥
Dana Petroleum group CEO Marcus Richards believes the oil industry is seeing a structural shift. He gave his personal views at a UK Chatham House event: I would like address the questions raised by the shift in oil demand to industrialized economies in terms of energy security鈥
China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) has signed construction contracts for two jack-up drilling rigs and a semisubmersible drilling rig. The contracts are with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry 云顶赌场老虎机 Co., Ltd. (DSIC 云顶赌场老虎机) and China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen) Co鈥
Ulstein has been awarded a ship design contract from Vroon 云顶赌场老虎机 Services, taking the total number of offshore ship designs it has sold in 14 years to more than 100. Of the designs sold, 74 were for Ulstein's X鈥揃OW design, launched in 2005鈥
China鈥檚 CNOOC announced that the Suizhong 36-1 Phase II adjustment project has commenced production. The Suizhong 36-1 oil field is located in the south region of Liaodong Bay in Bohai in an average water depth of approximately 30m. Four鈥
Husky Energy reported today in its Q3 results that it has commenced work offshore Taiwan. The company has started acquiring 2D seismic data, surveying a deepwater exploration block off the island's southwest coast, at the northern margin of the South China Sea鈥
CNOOC Ltd started production at two of its offshore fields, the Wenchang 19-1 North and Weizhou 12-8 West. The Wenchang 19-1 North oil field is located in the western Pearl River Mouth Basin with an average water depth of about 120-130m鈥
For the second time since it produced first oil a month ago, a gas leak has sidelined Kashagan鈥檚 operations. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) said that the leak was found on a pipeline running from the artificial D Island to the onshore Bolashak processing plant in Atyrau鈥
