Samsung scoops $350M Skarv topsides Jul 12, 2007
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has won a $350 million order from BP in Norway to build and install the deckside process equipment for the floating production storage and offloading vessel FPSO Skarv.

Vetco Gray gets $265M, Skarv sub-sea nod Jul 12, 2007
Operator BP has handed Vetco Gray the NOK1.59 billion ($265 million) job of engineering, building and then maintaining the subsea production equipment of the Norwegian Sea’s Skarv development.

Gazprom gives Total 24% of Shtokman Jul 12, 2007
Gazprom has chose French oil company Total to jointly own the Shtokman project company which will own some $16 billion in infrastructure at the 3.6-trillion-cubic metre gas field in the eastern Barents Sea.

Mexico sends troops to pipeline after blasts Jul 12, 2007
Mexican army and police have been reinforced after two pipeline blasts in a week proved to be the work of rebels partly protesting the narrow election win of the conservative federal government.

Prosafe extends India stay for $24.7M Jul 12, 2007
Stavanger-based rig owner Prosafe has been asked by Aban Offshore Ltd. for two more years of the floating storage and offloading vessel, the FSO Endeavor, at the PY-3 field offshore India.

Seadrill orders $598M deepwater drill ship Jul 12, 2007
Seadrill has entered into a $598-million turnkey contract to build a third ultra-deepwater drillship at the Samsung Shipyard in South Korea, the drilling contractor announced Thursday.

NPCC wins Saudi Aramco contract Jul 12, 2007
Saudi Aramco has awarded a major multi-million U.S. Dollar contract for the Tie-in Platforms and Scraper Decks Project to National Petroleum construction Company (NPCC) of the United Arab Emirates.

Melrose works to ready Egypt earnings Jul 11, 2007
Melrose Resources in Egypt declared test results at the West Khilala-5 well confirm a consistent reservoir across the northern limits of the field, and the company hinted a production tie-back was in order.

Keppel coup is $98M drillship order Jul 11, 2007
Singapore’s shipyard owner Keppel Offshore & Marine has won a S$150 million (US$98.3 million) contract to install equipment packages on a new drillship.

Indago reports “seismic shift” at Oman well Jul 11, 2007
London-based explorer Indago Petroleum Ltd. and operating partner RAK Petroleum have seen the cost of drilling in the Omani desert rise $8.2 million at one well, after finding ”tectonic movements” produced “stressed” rock formations.

Dolphin gas to UAE customers Jul 11, 2007
Dolphin Energy announced today that natural gas, from its production wells offshore Qatar, is now flowing to UAE customers for the very first time.

Endeavour, RWE Dea swap Norway assets Jul 10, 2007
Endeavour International Corp. in Norway has upped its stake in two production licenses offshore the Nordic country and has become operator in a deal with Germany’s RWE Dea.

Wicks back at UK Energy post Jul 10, 2007
Malcom Wicks is back at the post of U.K. Minister of State for Energy on the appointment of U.K. Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Minister John Hutton, the government declared Tuesday.

Scorpion jack-up at heart of Lamprell order Jul 10, 2007
Rig-maker Lamprell has announced Scorpion International Ltd is the orderer of a $168 million rig reported earlier this week by OilGas24.com.

Alstom helps Middle East market with €150M order Jul 10, 2007
Paris-based energy-services company Alstom has done its part to create a gas market in the Middle East with a €150M order to install five gas turbines in Kuwait at the new Az Zour power plant being built in Kuwait.