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At the end of July the seventh MBR installation of Triqua, a Dutch supplier of sustainable cost reducing wastewater treatment solutions, had been transported to the Caspian Sea. The order was placed by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd. Triqua complied with the customer’s specifications on health, safety and environment. The application of...

Aker Solutions has secured a contract with Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. to deliver a subsea production system for the Kikeh subsea expansion project off the coast of Sabah in East Malaysia. Contract value is undisclosed. The scope of work includes the delivery of deepwater oil production equipment such as subsea trees, control modules...

Seajacks UK has announced that WindMW GmbH  has confirmed that the Meerwind project has reached financial close. Seajacks will be the the main installation contractor and will use vessels from Seajacks’ fleet to install 80 foundations and wind turbine generator sets at Meerwind’s location in the German Bight. The contract is valued in excess of...

Lloyd Werft is to convert Harren’s Combi Dock IV into an offshore support vessel. It is only nineteen months since the Combi Dock IV left Lloyd Werft. Due back in Bremerhaven in August, the 162.3m Combi Dock IV will be converted for the OIG Offshore Installation Group – newly created by Harren & Partners...

Hamworthy has launched a new learning initiative aimed at offering tailor-made training packages for its end users. The service, Hamworthy Academy, includes a range of courses which are designed to provide training for the company’s equipment and comprise e-based learning packages backed up by a significant investment in hands-on facilities. Hands-on training is currently...

Shell and Emerson have signed a five-year Enterprise Framework Agreement that makes Emerson the single-source supplier of on/off valve actuators to Shell and its affiliates. Under the agreement, Emerson will provide products from its broad portfolio of valve automation technologies, including Bettis pneumatic and hydraulic actuators and EIM electric and electro-hydraulic actuators.  Emerson will...

North Atlantic Drilling, in which Seadrill has a 75% ownership, has taken delivery of the new harsh environment jack-up drilling rig West Elara from Jurong Shipyard (Singapore). The rig is expected to depart from Singapore on 11 August and will arrive at Westcon Shipyard in Ølen (Norway) early October in order to undertake final contract preparation...

RBG, provider of assess, inspect and repair (AIR) services to the global energy industry that was recently acquired by Stork Technical Services,  has been awarded a three year contract to provide Chevron North Sea Limited with global quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) inspection services. RBG have provided similar inspection services to Chevron since 2002. The contract involves the...

Statoil and partners Petoro, Det norske oljeselskap and Lundin Norway have made a high-impact oil discovery on the Aldous Major South prospect (PL 265) in the North Sea. Well 16/2-8, drilled by the Transocean Leader drilling rig, has identified an approximately 65-m oil column in Jurassic sandstone. The acquired data confirm that this is a...

Dutch heavy-lift shipping and offshore installation company Jumbo has announced the recent appointment of Tecnoil Comercio e Representacoes Ltda as its agent in Brazil. Tecnoil has been active in the energy market since 1973. Together with Tecnoil, Jumbo aims to further strengthen its position in the Brazilian oil and gas market, offering clients both innovative solutions...

The steel support structure for the Gudrun platform is now in place on the North Sea field, completing the first phase of the extensive installation work being carried out there. “The entire operation has been carried out according to plan and in a secure manner. “We’ve passed an important milestone for coming on stream at...

Titan Torque has announced it has increased turnover by 118%, increased the size of its Aberdeen facility and launched a new service to the drilling sector. Titan has secured additional operational space to meet demand for its drilling solutions and equipment. The company  has added an 8,000 square foot unit across from its 10,000...

Marathon Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 505, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 25/10-11. The well was drilled about eight km southwest of the previous discovery, 25/7-2, in the North Sea, about 40 km south of the Heimdal field. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in...

Dron & Dickson has secured GBP 55 million in UK North Sea contract wins for the first half of 2011.  During the last six months the company has landed both new and extended contracts with oil majors such as Nexen Petroleum U.K., BP, Talisman Energy Limited and ConocoPhillips. Work has included the provision of electrical...

Swire Oilfield Services,  provider of offshore cargo carrying units and associated services has officially opened its North America corporate office in Houston, Texas, USA.  Located in one of the major oil capitals, the strategically positioned office will house the North American executive management and Houston commercial teams. Centrally locating the company in a growing...

Subsea 7 S.A. has announced that it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately USD 440 million from Chevron Australia for the  Gorgon Project.  The work scope includes installation and tie-in of heavy-lift structures in the Gorgon and Jansz Fields, respectively 65 km and 130 km from Barrow Island, off the northwest coast of Western Australia,...

Jumbo Shipping has successfully transported 51 monopiles from EEW’s manufacturing plant in Rostock, Germany, to Barrow-in-Furness in the UK. The monopiles’ final destination was DONG Energy’s Walney Offshore Wind Farm 2. When the contract was awarded, the first shipment was only seven weeks away, during which time Jumbo engineered all shipments and designed and...

Sartor Offshore Rescue has secured a three year contract with Ithaca Energy UK worth GBP 8.2 million, in a deal brokered by Clarksons Offshore. Sartor’s Ocean Sprite will operate as a field support and emergency rescue and response vessel for the contract duration, is expected to commence the contract at the Athena field in the North...

SeaEnergy PLC confirms that its wholly owned subsidiary Ramco Hibernia Limited, has agreed to acquire 11,428,684 new shares in Lansdowne at 15 pence per share, a total investment of GBP 1,714,302.60, as a part of a larger placing raising GBP 6,130,676 which was announced by Lansdowne earlier today. Prior to the placing SeaEnergy held...

BP has been awarded two deepwater exploration and production blocks by the government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. BP was awarded a 100% interest in blocks 23(a) and TTDAA 14, both in deepwater frontier acreage offshore Trinidad’s east coast.  The success follows detailed subsurface research and evaluation by BP, whose Trinidad operations account for...

Offshore Solutions (OSBV) has launched a free standing Offshore Access System (OAS) designed to significantly reduce installation time.  OSBV has worked with Lowestoft-based, AKD Engineering to convert an existing OAS into a free standing skid mounted unit. The new design will allow quayside installation to be completed in a day and will also eliminate the...

Offshore crane operations can encompass lifts as heavy as 13,000 t, as challenging as stabbing a flare boom at a great height or lifting containers in a heavy sea, and as vital as lowering a 50m long Z shaped spool piece to the seabed or lifting a personnel basket. Whatever the task, safety and...

TDW Offshore Services L.L.C. (TDW) has announced that it successfully completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation in the Gulf of Mexico for a major operator. The operation made it possible for the operator to safely replace a faulty shut down valve (SDV) located above the riser on a platform situated off the coast of Louisiana....

Dockwise has confirmed its first contract for the new Type 0 vessel. By the end of 2012 and immediately upon delivery of the vessel by Hyundai Heavy Industries, the vessel will transport the Jack St. Malo platform hull from Korea to the US Gulf of Mexico. While initially in the form of an intent,...

Heerema Fabrication in Zwijndrecht has given Siemens Water Technologies the order for the delivery of a Chloropac hypochlorite generator for seawater cooling. The order is worth over EUR 500,000. The generator will be used at the North Sea platform DolWin1 and is the first Chloropac system to be installed in this type of converter station. DolWin1...