A Houston-based independent offshore survey company, UTEC Survey, has secured new offshore deals worth $3 million. UTEC Survey operates from offices all around the world and has just announced the two contracts which see the utilization of additional vessels in West Africa and the Arabian Gulf. The Maridive 515 was mobilized in the UAE in [...]
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Stork Technical Services, the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, won the ‘Associate Member’ prize at this year’s IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) Annual Safety Awards. The award recognises an Associate members’ safety achievements over the past year which can include launching schemes [...]
Salamander Energy reveals that it has been negotiating a Letter of Intent for Diamond Offshore’s Ocean General semi-submersible rig for its drilling campaign offshore Indonesia. The company plans to use the rig, built in 1976, to drill four prospects on its acreage in the North Kutei basin starting in 4Q 2012. In today’s interim statement, [...]
The purpose built and highly specified vessels have been designed to provide long term support to BP’s North Sea business and will provide the capabilities BP requires to deliver its strategy more efficiently and safely.
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In its interim statement released today, UK based Cairn announced participation in the current bid round offshore Cyprus. Cairn and its partners submitted the Bids on 11 May with awards expected towards the end of the year. Cairn holds a 40% share in the bidding consortium and other partners comprise Marathon Oil Company (40%), CC [...]
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard has secured a contract for the repair and upgrading of FSO Palanca from Angola’s state controlled oil company Songangol. The contract, signed in Luanda, Angola, calls for the major repairs and upgrading of the 20-year-old FSO Palanca, used for storage and offloading of oil produced from Angola’s Block 3. The [...]
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Rolls-Royce, the global power system company, has secured a £6 million contract to provide an integrated design, power & propulsion and equipment systems package for an offshore supply vessel to be built at Norwegian ship yard Simek AS for ship owner Atlantic Offshore. The vessel is a Rolls-Royce UT 755 LC design and will be [...]
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International oilfield services company Expro has once again been recognised for its outstanding safety record globally. Expro has been commended in the oil & gas industry sector of the annual 2012 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) safety awards. Expro has received awards from RoSPA for the past eight years, achieving a gold [...]
China based Yuexin Ocean Engineering last week delivered an Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel to Tidewater Marine. The 69.9m vessel, named Foster Tide, is of Focal Marine & Offshore Corp Ltd. design capable of developing the maximum speed of 14.14 knot. Foster Tide, which can accommodate a crew of 40, is equipped with twin [...]
Snam and Fluxys have reached an agreement to acquire E.ON’s 15.09% stake in Interconnector (UK), owner and operator of the subsea pipeline between the UK (Bacton) and Belgium (Zeebrugge) providing a strategic bi-directional link between the UK and the continental gas trading places. Last January, Snam and Fluxys entered into a strategic alliance aimed at [...]
