(July 24, 2008, 4:07 PM)
Five of six Neptune TLP wells are now online, according to BHP Billiton.

(July 08, 2008, 2:07 PM)
This month, a compressor module weighing 1,300 metric tons (1,433 tons) will be lifted on board the Sleipner B platform using the Saipem 7000 crane vessel, according to StatoilHydro.

(July 07, 2008, 3:07 PM)
Shell has started water injection at the Ursa/Princess Waterflood project. The project is expected to extend the life of the field by 10 years.

(July 07, 2008, 2:07 PM)
BW Offshore and Anzon Energy Ltd. have signed a letter of intent for the design, conversion, installation, and operation of an FPSO for the Basker-Manta-Gummy Joint Venture oil and gas fields offshore Australia.

(July 07, 2008, 1:07 PM)
Addax Petroleum Corp. has achieved 200 MMbbl of oil production from OML 123, offshore Nigeria.

(July 07, 2008, 10:07 AM)
A Galoc oil field FPSO has mobilized back on site, after disconnecting and relocating to calmer waters to wait out typhoon Fengshen in the Sulu Sea.

(July 07, 2008, 10:07 AM)
BP Norge has been granted consent by the Petroleum Safety Authority in Norway to use the Hod platform facilities beyond the original expected design life, until May 2015.

(July 07, 2008, 9:07 AM)
First oil and natural gas production has commenced from Neptune in deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

(July 07, 2008, 12:07 AM)
The Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. PJSC wholly owned subsidiary, TAQA Bratani Ltd., Shell UK Ltd., and Esso E&P Ltd. have signed a sale and purchase agreement for the equity pertaining to operating licenses for six offshore fields and two non-operated subsea tie-backs in the northern North Sea .

(July 03, 2008, 7:07 AM)
Eni Norge says the FPSO Goliat will get electricity from shore to combine with a gas turbine on the vessel for power.

(July 01, 2008, 3:07 PM)
Offshore industry spending is expected to rise to $840 billion in capital expenditures and $715 billion for operations, over the five year period to 2012, compared to the $550 billion and $390 billion estimated to have been spent in the previous five years, according to the World Offshore Oil & Gas Production and Spend Forecast 2008-2012 by Douglas-Westwood and EnergyFiles.

(June 27, 2008, 1:06 PM)
StatoilHydro has submitted a new plan to develop and to operate Troll field to ensure the long-term management of the oil and gas reserves in Norway's largest gas field.

(June 27, 2008, 11:06 AM)
Nexus Energy Ltd. has signed a notice of award (NOA) with Sedco Forex International Inc. to secure the Transocean Legend semisubmersible for the Crux liquids project.

(June 27, 2008, 9:06 AM)
Nexus Energy Ltd.'s Longtom-4 development well in Production License VIC/L29, in the Gippsland basin, offshore Victoria, was setting 16-in (41-cm) casing at 755 m (2,477 ft) MD from the rotary table in a deviated pilot hole.

(June 25, 2008, 2:06 PM)
Shell UK Ltd. has installed the first of three subsea Multiple Application Re-injection Systems (MARS) interfaces on its Bittern field in the North Sea.

(June 24, 2008, 9:06 AM)
Australian Worldwide Exploration Ltd (AWE) has finalized its Tui reserves review and has increased the initial proven and probable (2P) oil reserves to 50.1 MMbbl from 47 MMbbl.