Songa January Fleet Update

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Songa Venus has achieved operating efficiency of 96% during the month. The rig completed its last well under contract with ADA Consortium offshore North West Australia on 18 January, thereafter ...


Shell starts-up world-scale monoethylene glycol plant in Singapore

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Shell Chemicals Limited has announced the successful start-up of its new world-scale monoethylene glycol (MEG) unit at the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore. The unit started up as initially planned.  ...


Qatar Petroleum International acquires first downstream overseas assets in deal with Shell in Singapore

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Qatar Petroleum International and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd (Shell) today signed a series of agreements which will see Qatar Petroleum International take a stake in two Shell Chemicals joint ...


Dana Gas has announced the appointment of James Dewar as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s first and largest private-sector gas company, has announced the appointment of James Dewar as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Dewar brings in over 27 ...


Oil News from around the web, University of Ghana introduces Masters Degree in Petroleum; Opec is expected to keep production quotas at existing levels

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Opec is expected to keep production quotas at existing levels at its meeting in Vienna on Wednesday, Iranian Opec representatives have indicated. Apart from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, Libya, Iran and ...


Oil News from around the web, Crude oil for August 2009 delivery was $70.77 a barrel, up $0.54. London Brent crude $70.20 a barrel, up $0.42

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Oil prices rose towards $70 a barrel yesterday following an attack on Shell’s Billie-Krakama pipeline in Rivers State by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). ...


TDW Offshore Services AS Employees Receive Surprise Bonus

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Bonus Triggered by 36% Increased Turnover in 2008 TDW Offshore Services AS, a leading provider of pipeline services and technology, today announced that it has distributed a bonus to its employees ...


Oil News from around the web

Monday, April 13th, 2009

))))))) Oil prices rose above $53 a barrel Monday in Asia as investors looked to U.S. corporate earnings reports this week for signs of economic recovery that could sustain crude's ...


ExxonMobil Makes Technology Investment in China

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Chemical Company announced today that it has made the final decision to build a technology center in Shanghai, China to provide product applications support for its growing business ...


EOC’s 9M FY08 Net Profit Swells 267%

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

EOC Limited: EOC’s 9M FY08 Net Profit Swells 267% amid Robust Offshore Construction and Pipe Laying Activity Topline balloons 6 fold as Group’s new heavy lift accommodation pipelay vessel, Lewek Champion, ...


TECHNIP: A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD FIRST WITH A RISER AND LIFTING SYSTEM CONTRACT

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

TECHNIP: A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD FIRST WITH A RISER AND LIFTING SYSTEM CONTRACT FOR A SUBSEA MINING PROJECT Technip has been awarded by Nautilus Minerals Singapore Pte Ltd. a services contract for ...