Celtic Design Consultants are to exhibit at All Energy 2013 event in Aberdeen. They will be showing their innovative multi purpose jack up design. A working model of the design, named CDC Heron, and described as the ultimate offshore maintenance & intervention vessel for Oil & Gas and Renewables, will be on the stand, A57. According [...]
Gulfstream Services Inc (GSI), provider of cutting edge equipment to the international oil and gas industry, has successfully completed two six figure decommissioning contracts with major oil and gas service companies, Helix Well Ops UK and Dof Subsea. The Helix contract was part of the BP North West Hutton decommissioning project where GSI tools were [...]
The Gazprom headquarters hosted yesterday a working meeting between Alexey Miller Chairman of the Management Committee and Henning Voscherau, Chairman of South Stream Transport Board of Directors. The meeting participants discussed topics of the South Stream gas pipeline offshore section realization. In particular, the parties considered the current activities status and the procedures schedule stipulating the gas pipeline commissioning in the year 2015. Background For the [...]
COSCO Shipping Europe B.V. held its official opening ceremony in its Rotterdam offices at Strevelsweg 700 on Tuesday the 14th of May 2013. COSCO Shipping Company’s CEO, Capt. Han Guomin, had specially flown in from Guangzhou to chair the event which was attended by clients of his company’s fleet of semi-submersible heavylift vessels. Executives of [...]
Northern Offshore, a Bermuda-registered company providing drilling units to the international oil and gas industry, has reported net income for the three months ended March 31, 2013 of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, on revenues of $41.4 million. The company generated $9.8 million of first quarter EBITDA. The positive net cash balance stands at $18 [...]
Aberdeen-based standby vessel operator Atlantic Offshore Rescue has commissioned what will be the UK’s most powerful emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV). The Ocean Troll – which recently completed a long term charter with Statoil – has undergone a £2million conversion and overhaul at MMS in Hull to become a UK Class A ERRV with [...]
Norway’s KONGSBERG has been awarded a significant offshore automation contract with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The contract covers deliveries to four Transocean owned new-build drillships, with an option for KONGSBERG to deliver products and services for six more drill ships. “We call this a ‘Full Picture’ solution, as it includes dynamic positioning, position reference systems, thruster control, [...]
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Modus Seabed Intervention, the leading subsea engineering and specialist Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) service provider, has confirmed an investment into a new advanced Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to further enhance its fleet of subsea vehicles. Manufactured by SMD in North East England, the cutting edge 150hp Quasar ROV ordered by Modus will be the first [...]
TWMA, a leader in integrated drilling waste management and environmental solutions, has secured its first offshore processing project in West Africa. The 400-day contract is to supply TWMA’s industry-leading offshore processing services to support Glencore Exploration Cameroon Ltd’s (Glencore) West Africa drilling campaign. The scope of work includes the installation of a TWMA TCC RotoMill [...]
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