Offshore

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said he’s likely to announce further steps to help Scotland’s North Sea oil and gas

The Island Innovator semi-submersible started turning to the right at PL674BS within the Zulu prospect located approximately 100 kilometers west of Stavanger

In the southern part of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in 110 meters of water is the Johan Sverdrup field,  one of the largest discoveries ever made

Norwegian subsea contractor DeepOcean AS is hoping to sign a major contract at the end of this week according to Chief Financial Officer Dennis de Vreede. In

Not sure why you would launch a ship in the dark, unless of course you’re in Norway and only have 6 hours of daylight over the course of the

Today’s ship photo of the day comes from BG Group’s Aberdeen office and shows a view from the stern of the REM Gambler which was operating at the

Oil producer Premier Oil expects to book a $300 million impairment charge due to the plunge in oil prices and plans to cut jobs and investment to rein in

The above image is not a barge, or a leg-less jack-up rig, but rather the hull of the North Dragon semi-submersible drilling rig under construction at CIMC

When a gale blew through the North Sea recently kicking up a huge sea state, the Aker H3-design accommodation platform Borgholm Dolphin was caught right in

DOF announced today it’s LNG-powered platform supply vessel (PSV) the Skandi Gamma will be working for another year under a Statoil contract that is

London Marine Consultants (LMC), a subsidiary of Singapore-based offshore contractor Ezra Holdings Ltd announced today the receipt of a contract by Jurong

Singapore-based subsea contractor EMAS AMC announced today the winning of a subsea construction contract to support Apache Energy’s Julimar Development

Ocean Rig, the deep water drilling specialist reports today they have reached an agreement with ENI Angola S.p.A to extend the contract of the Ocean Rig

Statoil ASA could be forced to delay its Johan Castberg project in Norway’s Arctic waters for a third time after oil prices dropped by more than half since

Houston-based Bibby Subsea has signed a three year contract this week with Bordelon Marine to charter the Brandon Bordelon, a US-flagged ultra-light

Dangerous and difficult oilfields that looked like goldmines when crude fetched more than $100 a barrel have turned into money pits as oil crashes to

Swedish oil firm Lundin Petroleum , which is working on the giant Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, will cut its capital spending

COPENHAGEN, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Maersk Oil, a unit of Denmark’s A. P. Moller-Maersk, has postponed a decision on whether to drill for oil at a

Britoil Offshore Services Pte Ltd’s first of two Ulstein-designed PX121 platform supply vessels was successfully launched this week from the company’s

Not literally at anchor as in moored, but rather Chevron struck oil while drilling at the Anchor prospect in Green Canyon within the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.