Vessels

India: Cochin Shipyard Delivers Skandi Hawk to DOF

India: Cochin Shipyard Delivers Skandi Hawk to DOF

DOF ASA’s subsidiary, DOF Rederi II AS, , has today taken delivery of Skandi Hawk from Cochin Shipyard in India. The vessel is a combined CSV/PSV of STX PSV 09 CD design and the second vessel in a series of two vessels from the same yard.   The Skandi Hawk’s overall length is 88.1 m and [...]

Brazil: Petrobras Collects Spilled Oil

Brazil: Petrobras Collects Spilled Oil

Petrobras announces it has commenced the deployment of the Environmental Monitoring Plan in the Carioca Nordeste area, in the Santos Basin, where a pipeline ruptured last Jan. 31 on a FPWSO Dynamic Producer performing an Extended Well Test. The FPWSO is located approximately 300 kilometers off the coast of the state of São Paulo, where [...]

Hoegh LNG Orders Third FSRU from HHI, South Korea

Hoegh LNG Orders Third FSRU from HHI, South Korea

Höegh LNG has, pursuant to a successful private placement, today exercised an option for a new FSRU to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. in Korea.  The FSRU will be delivered in the second quarter of 2014, and its specifications will be adapted to comply with relevant project requirements. Höegh LNG’s President and CEO, [...]

Australia: Searcher Starts Mariner 2D Non-Exclusive Seismic Survey

Australia: Searcher Starts Mariner 2D Non-Exclusive Seismic Survey

Searcher Seismic, an Australian-based company focused on either reprocessing existing regional datasets or acquiring new seismic data has begun with the Mariner 2D Non-Exclusive Seismic Survey. The survey comprises 3,100km of long offset 2D non-exclusive seismic data and 9,700km of reprocessing. Over 1,600km of new data has already been acquired. The survey is located in the Browse Basin, [...]

Edison Chouest Orders PSV in Poland

Edison Chouest Orders PSV in Poland

REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING S.A has signed a contract for building of a Platform Supply Vessel for Edison Chouest Offshore from Louisiana, USA. New building vessel is continuation of the series of four units of the same type which has been started last year. She will be built according to the project elaborated by polish design office [...]

South Korea: Pacific Drilling Extends Option for its 7th Drillship

South Korea: Pacific Drilling Extends Option for its 7th Drillship

Pacific Drilling S.A.  has reached an agreement with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries to extend until February 17, 2012 an option to construct a seventh ultra-deepwater drillship. Under the revised terms of the option agreement, the delivery of the drillship will be no later than May 17, 2014. The commercial terms of the option agreement [...]

SBM Offshore to Supply Turret and Mooring System for lchthys FPSO

SBM Offshore to Supply Turret and Mooring System for lchthys FPSO

SBM Offshore, a Dutch-based global group of companies selling and renting systems and services to the offshore oil and gas industry, has been awarded a contract by the lchthys LNG Project for the engineering, procurement, fabrication and supply of a Turret and Mooring system. This system will be integrated by the client into the lchthys FPSO [...]

Brazil: FPSO OSX-1 Starts Oil Production in Campos Basin

Brazil: FPSO OSX-1 Starts Oil Production in Campos Basin

On January 31th 2012, at 18h39m50s, the FPSO OSX-1 successfully initiated the production of first oil for its anchor client OGX, the Brazilian EBX Group oil and gas company responsible for the largest private-sector exploratory campaign in Brazil. The FPSO OSX-1 is in charge of carrying out the Extended Well Test on the Waimea accumulation, [...]

USA: McDermott Inks Spool Base Services Deal with Helix

USA: McDermott Inks Spool Base Services Deal with Helix

McDermott International has signed a 10-year frame agreement for spool base services in the Gulf of Mexico with Helix Subsea Construction, Inc. “This agreement allows McDermott, when contracting with Helix, to offer full-service, shore-based pipeline stalking and spooling services from Helix’s premier 120-acre Gulf of Mexico spool base at Ingleside, Texas, to pursue deepwater and [...]

Petrobras Detects Oil Spill in Santos Basin, Brazil

Petrobras Detects Oil Spill in Santos Basin, Brazil

Brazil’s oil company Petrobras detected a production string rupture of the floating production, well intervention, storage, and offloading (FPWSO) Dynamic Producer at 8:30 A.M. this Tuesday (Jan 31). The FPWSO is located approximately 300 kilometers off the coast of the state of São Paulo, where water depth reaches 2,140 meters. This vessel platform is conducting [...]


 




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