Archive for: April, 2011

Ulstein Secures Two PSV Design Contracts in Brazil

Ulstein Secures Two PSV Design Contracts in Brazil

  Ulstein Design & Solutions has signed two ship design contracts with the Brazilian Shipyard Alianca S.A for the building of two ULSTEIN PX105 platform supply vessels with the X-BOW® hull line design for the Brazilian shipowner CBO. The contracts are worth approximately NOK 150 million. The contracts are for the delivery of design, engineering, [...]

Norway: Havila Shipping Announces 1Q 2011 Results

Norway: Havila Shipping Announces 1Q 2011 Results

  Havila Shipping ASA achieved a result before tax of NOK -25,5m in Q1 2011, compared with NOK -14,8m in Q1 last year. Total revenue amounted to NOK 309.6 million in the 1st quarter of 2011 of which NOK 51.4 is profit from sale of Havila Saturn. Total revenues for corresponding period last year were [...]

Harvest Natural Resources Starts Drilling at Ruche Marin-A Well, Offshore Gabon

  Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced today commencement of drilling operations on the Ruche Marin-A exploration well located in the offshore waters of Gabon, West Africa. This exploration well will be drilled utilizing the Transocean Sedneth 701 semi-submersible drilling unit. The Ruche Marin-A well will be drilled in a water depth of 380 feet to [...]

USA: Gulf Island Fabrication Receives LoA for Hull Construction

USA: Gulf Island Fabrication Receives LoA for Hull Construction

  Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. announced today, that through its subsidiary Gulf Marine Fabricators, it has signed a Letter of Award for the fabrication of a hull for a Williams deep-water Gulf of Mexico project. Revenue and man-hour backlog is included in the Company’s consolidated backlog reported when the Company announced its earnings results for [...]

In Situ Burning Could Resolve Potential Oil Spill Off Newfoundland, Canada

In Situ Burning Could Resolve Potential Oil Spill Off Newfoundland, Canada

A catastrophic spill at an oil field off Newfoundland could be resolved by burning off the fuel, a report released Thursday says…   By CBC News Source:cbc, April 29,2011;

USA: MTU to Showcase its Diesel Engine Lines at OTC 2011

USA: MTU to Showcase its Diesel Engine Lines at OTC 2011

  The Tognum Group subsidiary MTU is displaying four diesel engine lines at the Offshore Technology Conference, May 2-5, 2011, in Houston, Texas. The products displayed have been designed specifically to power products used in the exploration and production of oil and gas. Applications in which MTU products are used include mechanical drive, stationary power [...]

India: ONGC Awards Baker Hughes 5-Year Drilling, Evaluation Contract

India: ONGC Awards Baker Hughes 5-Year Drilling, Evaluation Contract

  Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) of India has awarded Baker Hughes  a five-year contract to provide drilling and evaluation services and to manage third-party services for the Platinum Explorer drillship. Under the terms of the contract, Baker Hughes will supply directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling, surface logging services, drilling fluids, liner hangers, cementing and [...]

Azerbaijan: SOCAR President Welcomes BP Delegation

Azerbaijan: SOCAR President Welcomes BP Delegation

  On April 27, SOCAR President Mr. Rovnag Abdullayev received BP delegation led by Company’s Chief Executive Mr. Robert Dudley. Welcoming the guests, Mr. Abdullayev stated that Exploration work within the contract on exploration of “Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli”, “Shah Daniz” fields, development and production sharing on the prospective “Shafag-Asiman” block in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian [...]

China: Sinopacific Shipbuilding Holds Naming Ceremony for GPA696 OSV

China: Sinopacific Shipbuilding Holds Naming Ceremony for GPA696 OSV

  On the morning of 29 April, Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, China’s leading private shipbuilding enterprise held the ship naming ceremony at its Zhejiang Shipyard for GPA696, the global first fabricated model of Offshore Support Vessel(OSV) built for France’s Bourbon Company. Afterwards, a sea trial event was also held for another global first fabricated OSV, the [...]

Bhagwan Marine Orders 2 Vessels to Support Western Australia’s Oil and Gas Industry

Bhagwan Marine Orders 2 Vessels to Support Western Australia’s Oil and Gas Industry

  Strategic Marine has signed another repeat order with Western Australian company Bhagwan Marine to deliver two new vessels to service the WA’s offshore oil and gas industry, including the Gorgon Project. The new contracts for a 49.5 metre and 38 metre landing craft follows the delivery of a 48 metre landing craft(photo) to join [...]





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