Our Maritime Business Magazines

Later this year Grup Servicii Petroliere will provide offshore drilling services for two Black Sea exploration wells, Ioana and Eugenia, for Midia Resources SRL, a subsidiary of Sterling Resources...

At Gastech 2012 some of the world’s most influential energy figures will explain how advances in technology are driving the global gas industry. Now in its 40th year, the Gastech exhibition in October is a showcase for innovation, technologies, products, services and suppliers involved in the energy industry and is free to...

From November, 27 to 29, Valve Word Expo, 8th Biennial Valve World Conference & Exhibition will be held in Düsseldorf for the second time now. After its successful premiere in 2010 now, six month prior to the fair, more than 500 exhibitors from 35 countries have already registered for the...

IHC Merwede recently opened a new yard facility in Broussard, Louisiana, operating under the name of Hydro-Ram, Inc. With this expansion IHC Merwede now has a regional office in North America, which will be the main distributor covering the North American piling markets for the oil and gas, offshore wind, construction and coastal and...

Heerema Fabrication Group is delivering the largest offshore jacket ever designed and built in the Netherlands to the Statoil Valemon platform in the North Sea. The 160m jacket, weighing 9,640 t, will leave the Port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands on 26 May. It is also the heaviest jacket to be installed by the...

Later this year Wärtsilä Hamworthy begins delivery of by far its largest contract yet for inert gas generator units. Brazilian shipyard Ecovix-Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. ordered the units for eight FPSOs under construction for use in the Santos...

ABB will supply energy efficient propulsion and electrical power systems worth USD 18 million for two new deep sea pipeline installation vessels. South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering will build the vessels. The end customer, a joint venture between French oil service company Technip and Brazilian company Odebrecht Oil & Gas, will...

“For many years, I noticed a gap in maritime media” said Dennis Vinkoert of Yellow & Finch Publishers. To fill this gap the maritime publishing house successfully launched their ‘maiden’ issue of the new international magazine, Ports & Shipping...

Emerson Process Management has won a multi-million dollar contact to deliver its Roxar subsea instrumentation to Lundin Petroleum’s Brynhild field in the North Sea. Aker Solutions will use the instrumentation as part of the rolling out of a complete subsea production system on Brynhild, with Emerson also delivering a number of downhole pressure and...

Ned-Deck Marine will deliver movable hydraulic A-frame pivoting davits onboard PX121 design PSV’s at a leading Norwegian shipyard. In non-operating conditions, the davit is located behind a wall under the wheel house for two reasons: More available deck space onboard the PSV; Protecting the davit system and fast rescue boat from harsh weather conditions...

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Alpine towed the rig Ocean Whittington from offshore Belem, Brazil, to offshore Galveston, US. For this job Fairmount Marine was contracted by the rigs owner, Diamond Offshore Drilling, for which Fairmount has performed a series of towages in recent...

The Ampelmann system is back on a Smit Taklift barge exactly four years since the offshore hydraulic gangway appeared on the market. Ampelmaan currently has 10 systems in operation around the...

Wärtsilä Hamworthy will supply its flare gas recovery packages to four floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units under construction for Petrobras. The units, each of which will be able to handle 150,000bpd, are to be deployed on the pre-salt fields, off Santos, Brazil. Three of the FPSOs will be utilised for Block BM-S-11...

The Ulstein-designed platform supply vessel ‘CBO Pacifico’ left the Estaleiro Alianca yard last week. The new build went straight into contract for Petrobras. The vessel is the second of the PX106 design delivered to CBO this...

Renaissance Services subsidiary, Topaz Engineering, a UAE-based full service ship building, ship repair and engineering services company, delivered two wind farm support vessels (WFSV) to ASP Work Boats Ltd, part of the global ASP Ship Management...

Dutch repair yard Shipdock Harlingen recently completed an interesting and difficult job for Dutch offshore seismic survey company Tranship. The Vigilant required large access holes cut in the deck to overhaul and replace propeller shaft sealing gaskets and rudder...

Blohm & Voss Oil Tools says its new SureGrip 500 floor slip is the first of a new generation of floor slip power tools using ball and taper gripping technology to provide improved drill pipe handling offshore. Conventional die slips fitted with replaceable steel die teeth create sharp indents in the pipe that can...

Aker Solutions will deliver seven new subsea tree systems to the Dalia field located offshore Angola for Total E&P Angola. Contract value is approximately NOK 470 million. Scope of work includes seven production subsea trees, seven wellhead systems and seven well jumper systems, and may include some contract...

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Sherpa towed the rig ODN Tay IV from Las Palmas to a location offshore Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For this job Fairmount Marine was contracted by Odebrecht Oil and Gas for the third time in a...

In April Superior Energy Services of Houston, Texas, took delivery of one of the most advanced maritime training simulators ever developed. The next-generation simulator from Kongsberg Maritime will be used to provide integrated, real-time training for Superior’s offshore marine personnel at its new facility in Anchorage,...

Fabrication is underway for first use of the buoyant towers concept for shallow water fields – technology developed by the joint venture of GMC and Horton Wison Deepwater. Houston-based BPZ Energy will apply the technology for their new platform at the Corvina field offshore...

T.D. Williamson (TDW) today announced the successful development and field deployment of the Subsea 1200RC Tapping Machine, its new compact remote-controlled subsea hot tapping machine. The system, which is extremely lightweight, allows hot tapping to be carried out from the safety of a Diving Support Vessel (DSV) or platform, resulting in significant safety benefits...

Royal Boskalis Westminster has acquired three energy related contracts for projects in northwest Europe (Irish Sea, plus German and Danish North Sea areas) with a combined contract value of approximately EUR 110 million....

The Arctic has large oil and gas resources and operations in this sensitive and harsh area will require efficient oil-spill preparedness solutions. “The acquisition of Norwegian Petro Services (NPS) in Norway and its recognised expertise will play an important role in our activities in this field,” says Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, DNV’s COO of the Norway,...

The oil and gas team in the Barclays Corporate Banking division today announced it has been involved in deals providing funding for acquisitions and exploration and production (E&P) amounting to almost USD 355 million in the first quarter of this year – describing business as “far busier than the same period in...