DNV has restructured its offshore classification rules for Mobile Offshore Units in order to improve transparency and enhance safety. “Our aim is to help the rig owner in the building process – to clearly show that the unit is constructed in compliance with reliability and safety standards. At the same time, yards can achieve improved [...]
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Moving MOUs to sheltered waters or drydock facilities for surveys is disruptive and expensive. Using the experience gained from several years of dealing with floating production units and surveying drilling units on location, DNV is now preparing a Recommended Practice (RP) to allow mobile offshore units to operate on location by optimizing survey routines without [...]
Denmark’s DONG Energy has decided to streamline its corporate structure by combining the business units Energy Markets and Sales & Distribution. Today, Energy Markets is responsible for sourcing, trading and wholesale sales, while Sales & Distribution is responsible for sales to business customers and residential customers and for the operation of the Group’s distribution networks, [...]
Subsidiaries of Frigstad Deepwater Ltd have entered into turnkey construction contracts for the delivery of two ultra deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs from CIMC Raffles in Yantai, China, with options for another four units. The 7th generation drilling units are of the Frigstad D90™ design, developed by Frigstad Engineering and tailor made for safe and efficient [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded yet another important order as part of the ongoing Brazilian programme to build a number of drill units (DRUs) to serve its offshore oil industry. This latest in a series of contracts won by Wärtsilä is to supply complete mechanical packages, comprising the [...]
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Seadrill Partners, a subsidiary of international drilling contractor Seadrill Limited, today announced that it priced its initial public offering of 8,750,000 common units at a price of $22.00 per unit. Seadrill Partners has granted the underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase up to 1,312,500 additional common units, at the same price per unit, to cover [...]
Wärtsilä Moss AS has won a contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) to supply inert gas generator (IGG) units to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG project in the Browse Basin, approximately 200km off western Australia. The vessel is due for delivery in April 2016; [...]
Wärtsilä Hamworthy, the global leader in environmental and liquid cargo handling solutions for the marine and oil & gas markets, has underscored its technical prowess in the offshore sector by winning the contract from Brazilian shipyard Ecovix-Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. to deliver Inert Gas Generator (IGG) units to eight floating production, storage and offloading vessels [...]
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Northern Offshore, Ltd. today announced that both the semisubmersible Energy Driller and drillship Energy Searcher have commenced operations. The Energy Searcher went on dayrate under the contract with the Joint Operating Company Vietgazprom, a joint venture between Petrovietnam and Gazprom, (“VGP”) for their drilling program offshore Vietnam on April 6, 2012. The duration is for [...]
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TTS Energy AS has on the 12th of January 2012 signed the contract for delivery of two complete wellhead platform drilling units with OSX WHP 1&2 Leasing B.V, a subsidiary of OSX S.A of Brazil The 2 units are to be delivered Q2 and Q3 2013. The scope of work will be performed jointly by [...]
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