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Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is appointed project manager of the Joint Industry Project Energy Efficient Offshore Partners. The partnership involves a collaboration of seven Norwegian offshore shipping companies – BOA Offshore, Eidesvik Offshore, Farstad Shipping, Gulf Offshore Norge, Havila Shipping, Siem Offshore and Solstad Offshore – and aims to identify offshore shipping energy efficiency and fuel...

Jan De Nul Group has been awarded a project for the design, the construction and the installation of 16 concrete foundations for the Kårehamn offshore wind farm in the Swedish part of the Baltic Sea, by order of E.ON (Sweden). Jan De Nul Group already started the design of the foundations for the 3MW...

Fairmount Marine‘s Fairmount Alpine tug has successfully assisted in the refloating of the grounded Ikan Sepat. The salvage operation was directed by T&T Bisso Salvage. The Ikan Sepat is a 180m, 28,503DWT bulk carrier flying the Singapore flag, that was grounded in the approach of the port of Puerto Cortés, located at the Gulf...

Dron & Dickson has secured a new contract with Maersk FPSOs UK Limited. The deal will see Dron & Dickson conduct an Ex baseline survey for the North Sea Producer FPSO to establish the client’s asset register. The survey will involve a team of electrical technicians inspecting all Ex items onboard the vessel. Colin...

Aberdeen-based Mintra Training Portal Limited, an established leading provider of learning, training and competency solutions for the oil and gas industry, has announced the appointment of three new directors to further enhance the company’s rapid growth. Sally Hayles (l) joins the leadership team at Mintra as business development director whilst Seonaid McIntosh (r) has...

Gibdock‘s key strategic aim to carve a niche in the growing regional market for jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rig repairs, maintenance and modification work, has moved an important step closer. Following the arrival in October of the 22,604GT Etesco Millennium semi-submersible, built in 1976 by Marathon Le Tourneau and upgraded in 2006, steel repair work has...

Kongsberg Maritime simulators have been selected for the forthcoming MOSAIC 2 facility (Maersk Offshore Simulation and Innovation Centre) at Maersk Training in Svendborg, Denmark. The MOSAIC 2 simulator delivery is scheduled to start within six months. The new training facility expands on the existing MOSAIC facility in Svendborg that opened in February 2010 and...

Leading energy services company Senergy appointed Vivien Broughton their vice president (VP) of resources to further strengthen their commitment to building and developing its global talent pool. Through her broad oil and gas career, starting out as a geologist and subsequently working as a wells engineer before moving into human resources, she has established an...

Norwegian World Wide Supply (WWS) has ordered four PSV 3300 CDs with Damen Shipyards. The PSV 3300 CD, built according to Damen’s E3 principles, is a newly designed platform supply vessel for servicing oil and gas rigs worldwide and is specifically designed to perform safely and economically in adverse weather conditions. All four vessels...

Lifting, drilling and subsea solutions specialist, Huisman, has secured a new contract with Subsea 7 to supply and install a 550t Flex-Lay System – the highest capacity flex-lay system onboard a pipelay vessel – and a 400t Offshore Mast Crane onboard Subsea 7’s  latest  vessel. Huisman has designed and built pipelay systems for a number of...

15 December 2011 marks the delivery of the 250th Aker Wirth mud pump from the TPK 2200 series. Following its successful trial run, the jubilee pump is now on its way to Korea, where it will be installed on the Tungsten Explorer deepsea drilling vessel from Vantage Drilling, under construction at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & marine Engineerin...

SONASING and OPS, two joint venture companies of SONANGOL and SBM Offshore N.V. are pleased to announce the contracts with ENI Angola have been signed for the twelve year lease and operation of the FPSO Xikomba for the block 15/06 development, offshore Angola. The development plan involves relocation of the existing FPSO Xikomba, which...

A consortium consisting of Kongsberg, IBM, and DNV will develop a real-time environmental monitoring solution together with their client Statoil. On behalf of the consortium, Kongsberg has been awarded a contract by Statoil Research and Development Center in Trondheim for developing an Integrated Environmental Monitoring System. The project value of NOK 150 million includes Statoil’s...

IHC Merwede is pleased to announce that it has recently secured orders for advanced vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of EUR 200 million. The latest agreements confirmed by IHC Merwede include  a new pipelaying vessel for Subsea 7. The assignment is for the design, engineering and...

FMC Technologies announced yesterday that it has signed a contract with BP for the manufacture and supply of additional subsea equipment for its ongoing deepwater projects offshore Angola. FMC’s scope of supply includes four subsea trees, control systems, wellheads, tubing hangers, well jumpers and subsea distribution systems. The equipment will be manufactured at FMC’s...

Reservoir Group has strengthened its portfolio of completion and production services with the announcement that two well intervention specialists have joined the ‘club’: The Tool Company and Wellbore Intervention. Pascal Bartette, who is chief executive officer of Reservoir Group, said: “We are delighted to welcome these new businesses to our club. Both The Tool Company...

International energy consultancy Xodus Group has secured more than USD 1 million of contracts in the Gulf of Mexico since it opened its office in Houston in February. Xodus has made a number of senior appointments to the Houston office to facilitate future growth. Marc Young (middle) has joined as Process and Facilities manager, Dirk...

The Ferguson Group, specialists in the rental of containers and accommodation and engineering modules to the offshore energy industry around the world, has announced plans to expand operations through a new base in Australia. The brand new purpose-built yard and office buildings in Perth, WA, is designed specifically to meet the needs of Ferguson...

Fairmount Marine‘s powerful tug Fairmount Expedition has safely delivered a 18,000t topside for process, utilities and living quarters for the Castor project – a 1,3billion cu. m submarine gas storage project, 12 miles from the Mediterannean shore of Spanish Valencia. Fairmount Marine, part of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group, was hired by Heerema Marine Contractors for getting the topside from Corpus...

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) is awarded the contract for the fabrication of two jackets for the Golden Eagle Development project of Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. The contract consists of the fabrication of a 6,000t wellhead jacket and a 6,000t jacket for the PUQ (Production Utilities Quarters). The construction is scheduled to start in February...

FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with LLOG Exploration company, LLC, for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems to support its Who Dat project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The award is valued at approximately USD 40 million in revenue to FMC. FMC’s scope of supply includes seven subsea production...

Subsea 7 announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately USD 200 million from Petrobras on the Campos Basin, 80 km from the Brazilian coast. The contract scope includes the management, engineering, procurement and installation of two rigid oil lines of 4.5 km x 34″ (OD) at water depths of 70...

Every reason to celebrate for Scana Volda‘s sales manager Arnfinn Brautaset (left) and managing director Kristian Saetre (right). The Norwegian propulsion solutions company entered into an NOK 67 million agreement with VT Halter Marine, Inc, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA, for delivery of the main propulsion systems and controls for eight offshore supply vessels (OSVs) for...

Danny Murray has been appointed TWMA‘s business development manager for the Middle East and North Africa – a newly created position. This move comes as TWMA announces its plans to set up a base in Dubai as part of its continuing growth strategy. Mr Murray joins the team at TWMA with over 20 years experience and...

Reflex Marine has established an accredited service centre (ASC) in Norway for its FROG and TORO personnel carriers. The company has appointed mechanical engineering specialist EnerMech AS as the accredited service centre in the region. As part of an programme to ensure uniformly high standards of maintenance and safety, Reflex Marine has established accredited...