The shortlist for the Offshore Achievement Awards has been announced today, recognising the top individuals and companies in the energy industry. The awards, re-launched in October by the Society of Petroleum Engineers with the support of main sponsor TAQA Bratani, will celebrate the finest talent in categories including overall company performance, commitment to safety and [...]
Xcite Energy, has negotiated an amendment to its rig contract with British American Offshore Limited, a subsidiary of Rowan Companies Inc. The amendment provides additional flexibility around timing of the provision of a heavy duty, harsh environment jack up drilling unit, which will better suit the revised work programme as anticipated for Phase 1B of [...]
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Aberdeen-based experts Ecosse Subsea Systems are preparing to showcase their innovative subsea technology at Europe’s largest conference and exhibition for the industry. During the Subsea 2012 event at Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre (AECC) on February 8th and 9th, Mike Wilson and his team will exhibit the wholly owned subsea trenching system SCAR which is [...]
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The platform supply vessel M/V Blue Fighter of PX121 design delivered by ULSTEIN in January has won a contract with American company Apache for work in the North Sea. The ship was delivered from Ulstein Verft to Blue Ship Invest on 19 January, and entered the spot market in the British North Sea sector directly. [...]
Subsea 7 S.A. has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $100 million from BP Exploration Operating Company Limited for the Clair Ridge Project, West of Shetland. The Clair Ridge development will comprise two new, bridge-linked platforms to be located to the North-East of Clair Phase 1. The contract scope includes the project management, engineering, [...]
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Robotic Technologies, a business line of Fugro Subsea Services Limited, has announced the introduction of three-dimensional sea current profiles to its DeepWorks family of subsea simulators. Users can now model currents as they vary with depth and location, enabling more realistic representations of current flows across large sea areas, in shallow waters and around targets. [...]
EnQuest PLC (‘EnQuest’) today announces that it has completed the acquisition of two companies from Canamens Limited, whose assets include the 20% interest in the Kraken offshore oil discovery. This agreement was announced on 9 January 2012 under which EnQuest would pay an initial consideration of US$45 million dollars in cash and a further US$45 [...]
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UK-based Sonardyne International has taken its first order for a Dynamic Positioning Inertial Navigation System (DP-INS). Vantage Drilling’s new 12,000 feet-rated drillship, Dragonquest, is set become the first deep water drilling unit in the world to be equipped with the new system when it begins operations in the Gulf of Mexico for Petrobras later this [...]
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Providence Resources Plc. has awarded TWMA with the contract for the handling and treatment of drill cuttings from the GSF Arctic III rig in the Celtic sea. It is the second contract for TWMA in the region and will involve a skip-and-ship operation to transport the cuttings from the Barryroe well offshore Cork in Southern [...]
Veripos, a supplier of high-precision GNSS positioning support to the offshore oil and gas industry, has secured an extension to its contract with BP under which it will continue to provide precision positioning for the energy company’s turret monitoring system aboard its FPSO in the West Shetland Basin, BP Schiehallion. With the extended contract, Veripos [...]
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