Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine has won a contract from an unnamed repeat customer worth about S$100 million (USD 74,7 million) for the fabrication and integration work on a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO).Scheduled for delivery in 4Q 2022, Keppel Shipyard’s scope of work includes the fabrication, installation and integration of topside modules, riser balconies and spread mooring support structures, as well as supporting the customer on pre-commissioning a

UK-based oil firm Independent Oil and Gas has awarded the rig contract for its Core Project Phase 1 in the North Sea to Noble Corporation.The Core Project comprises gas resources across six discovered UK Southern North Sea ("SNS") gas fields. Phase 1 will focus on the development of Blythe, Elgood, and Southwark fields.IOG has hired Noble Corp's Hans Deul jack-up rig to drill the five Phase 1 production wells, one each of which are planned at the Blythe and Elgood fields and three

Subsea services provider Oceaneering has been awarded a BOP tethering services contract offshore Brazil with the Brazilian oil firm Petrobras.The scope of work under the contract includes data acquisition and real-time riser analysis for dynamic positioning rig operations for up to seven wells in water depths between 150 meters and 700 meters.The contract is for one year with the option to extend for an additional year. Oceaneering did not provide the financial details of the deal.Oceaneering wi

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had extended a ban until 2032 on oil drilling off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia, weeks after a similar extension affecting offshore drilling in the waters off Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina."I'm extending the moratorium to North Carolina and Virginia," Trump said to applause at a campaign rally in Newport News, Virginia.The Trump administration, which has worked to expand U.S. oil and gas drilling and roll back Obama-er

Norwegian company Equinor and the British oil giant BP have entered into a strategic partnership to develop offshore wind projects in the US.Under the agreement, BP will buy a 50% stake in Equinor's Empire Wind and Beacon Wind assets on the US east coast for a total consideration before adjustments of USD 1.1 billion, marking the UK-based oil giant's entry into offshore wind.Through this transaction, the two companies are also establishing a strategic partnership for further growth withi

Oil and gas company Noble Energy has set a date for a shareholder vote on the company's proposed takeover by Chevron.As previously reported, Chevron in July announced a deal to acquire Noble Energy in an all-stock deal valued at around $5 billion, with NobleEnergy shareholders set to receive 0.1191 shares of Chevron for each Noble Energy share. The total enterprise value, including debt, of the transaction, is $13 billion.Noble Energy said Monday that the Special Meeting of Shareholders to a