A £35 million investment by Craig Group in four new vessels has already secured major contracts for the Aberdeen global shipping and energy services company. The new-build D-Class Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs), which will be managed by Craig Group division North Star Shipping, will take to the waves throughout the year on charter [...]
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Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaish are participating in an ownership consortium for an ultra-deepwater drillship being used in the provision of charter services to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (“Petrobras”), the Brazilian state-owned petroleum company. Delivered on December 15, 2011, the vessel arrived at the drilling area in Brazil on February 4, 2012, and has been under charter [...]
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Hallin Marine’s Australian operation has entered into a long term charter with Fremantle-based Salter Offshore for the innovative new catamaran ‘Outer Limit’. A dynamically positioned subsea and offshore operations support craft, the Outer Limit sets new standards for vessels in this sector. With accommodation for 32 persons and 160 square metres of clear deck space, [...]
Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited, provider of subsea and drilling services for the offshore oil and gas industry, has secured a contract award with its existing client, an international upstream oil and gas company, to provide drilling and related services using the tender drilling rig ‘MTR-2’ for the Client’s offshore oil and gas fields in Indonesia. [...]
South Korea’s shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) has secured a new order for two Cat-D semi-submersible rigs from Norway based Songa Offshore. The contract signing ceremony was held during the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held in Houston, U.S.A on 3rd May. The value of the contract is approximately $1.1 billion USD and [...]
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Wärtsilä Hamworthy, the global leader in environmental and liquid cargo handling solutions for the marine and oil & gas markets, has won a contract to supply its Flare Gas Recovery packages to four floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units under construction for Petrobras. The units, each of which will be able to handle 150,000bpd, [...]
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BP has signed two production sharing contracts with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The two deep water exploration blocks are located approximately 300 kilometres from the North East coast of Trinidad. BP was awarded blocks 23(a) and TTDAA 14 in the 2010/2011 deepwater competitive bid round in July 2011, with a [...]
FMC Technologies, Inc., a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry announced today that it has signed an agreement with Technip France, on behalf of the Technip Samsung Consortium (TSC), to supply offshore loading arm systems as part of the Shell Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Project. FMC’s scope of supply includes [...]
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Chevron Corporation has signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Tohoku Electric Power Company Incorporated (Tohoku) for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone natural gas project in Australia. Under the agreement, Chevron, together with Apache Energy and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC), is expected to deliver up to [...]
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International oil and gas exploration and production giant Statoil has reached an agreement to use Seadrill’s West Aquarius deepwater drilling rig for its 2012-2013 exploration activities offshore Newfoundland, Canada. “We have ambitious exploration targets offshore Newfoundland, and securing rig capacity is essential for reaching those targets,” says Geir Richardsen, head of Exploration for Statoil in [...]
