FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has received an order from Shell for the supply of subsea equipment to support the Stones field development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Stones is an ultra deepwater project located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the [...]
Virginia’s U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) yesterday introduced The Virginia Outer Continental Shelf Energy Production Act of 2013. The legislation would expand American offshore energy production with a revised five-year leasing plan, and provide revenue sharing. The bill would provide an alternative to the Administration’s proposed 2012-2017 offshore oil and gas leasing [...]
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver operations & maintenance services to Hess Corporation’s Baldpate production platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, under a new five-year contract. WGPSN will also provide these services to Hess for the Tubular Bells and Stampede deepwater facilities in the Mississippi Canyon and Green Canyon regions of the Gulf of [...]
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Aker Solutions yesterday laid the foundation stone of a new plant in Paraná that will double the company’s subsea production capacity in Brazil. The plant in the city of São José dos Pinhais in the Paraná state in Brazil will be operational in 2015. It will replace Aker Solutions’ current subsea manufacturing facility in Curitiba [...]
Genscape, the company that pioneered the placement of thousands of patented, in-the-field energy monitors to measure market fundamentals in real-time, today announced the acquisition of Vesseltracker.com GmbH. This acquisition significantly expands Genscape’s network of proprietary real-time energy monitors to deliver the next era in oceangoing fleet analytics and customized reporting. Vesseltracker uses sophisticated algorithms to [...]
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Exxon Mobil Corporation announced yesterday it will donate $500,000 to the American Red Cross to provide disaster relief assistance in response to the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma and the southwest United States. “We extend our heartfelt sympathies to all who have been impacted by the devastating tornadoes,” said Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive [...]
BAE Systems yesterday held a keel laying ceremony for the first of four platform supply vessels it’s building for Jackson Offshore Operators. The new vessels, which will support drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, reflect BAE Systems’ continued growth in U.S. commercial shipbuilding and its support to the offshore oil and gas industry. The [...]
Rowan Companies plc, a U.S.-based drilling contractor specialising in high-specification jack-up rigs, today announced it has secured more work for its Gorilla IV rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. In its fleet contract status update the company revealed that Walter Oil & Gas has awarded a six month contract extension for the rig on a [...]
LEEVAC Shipyards Jennings LLC, has signed contracts with Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC for the construction of two STX Marine SV 310 Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels. “These will be the twenty-third (23) and twenty-fourth (24) vessels to be built by LEEVAC for Hornbeck” says Christian Vaccari, President and CEO of LEEVAC. The SV 310 is a very [...]
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced today that Vice President of LNG Sales, Tor-Ivar Guttulsrod, will speak in the Strategy Roundtable of Floating LNG 2013, the world’s largest conference on floating LNG on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Guttulsrod will be part of the Technical Panel, speaking on how [...]
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