Primeline Energy Holdings has started commercial production at its LS36-1 gas field, offshore China, trial production having been completed.

GE has agreed to acquire the Subsea Electric Actuator product line of Oceaneering, a global provider of engineering services and products to the oil and gas industry.

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The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of materials handling, occupational health and safety and barrier management in the development project for the Johan Sverdrup field, in the North Sea.

Such enormous burdens might seem untenable when Gulf states may face a sustained period of lower oil prices, which have almost halved since June.

Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Oseberg Vestflanke, located in the North Sea, beyond its originally planned life.

Germany’s Wintershall has announced updated, higher recoverable resource estimates for its operated Maria Field, located in the Norwegian Sea.

The project services division of Aberdeen-based company CSL has been awarded a two-year contract extension of an existing onshore and offshore frame agreement with Shell UK across their Upstream International Europe region for the provision of client representation (OOER and QAQC).

African Petroleum Corporation’s subsidiary African Petroleum Senegal Limited has received confirmation from the President in the form of a Presidential decree of entry into the First Renewal Period on licence Senegal Offshore Sud Profond (SOSP).

Lamprell has announced the completion of construction on a further jack-up drilling rig, the “Shuwehat”, and its delivery to Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Company (NDC).