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Master Service Agreement

Dockwise Ltd has announced that it has entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Seadrill Management AS to provide for the transportation requirements of all relevant rigs operated by the Seadrill group, including its subsidiaries. The MSA provides a framework for all future contracts, standardising and simplifying the booking processes, with associated efficiency...

Platform Supply Vessels

Havyard Ship Technology AS has signed a contract with Sartor Offshore AS for the delivery of a Havyard 832 L platform supply vessels with option for an additional ship. The ship will be built at Havyard Ship Technology’s yard in Leirvik in Sogn and will be delivered in January 2012. The option is scheduled...

New Organisation

The companies previously known as Well Technology Group (WTG), Brønnteknologiutvikling (BTU) and PI Intervention have come together with a new name and brand identity and will now be operating globally as Interwell. Interwell is a high-technology well intervention specialist offering  well barrier solutions available in the upstream oil and gas sector, and supplying bridge...

KCI Nominated for IRO Innovation Prize

Dutch based engineering firm KCI has been nominated with its new logistics tool TILT for the IRO Innovation prize. This prestigious prize for offshore innovations will be handed out on 7 April during the IRO innovation seminar which will be held at the Shell Upstream Research & Development Centre in Rijswijk. Together with three...

High Performance Turbine Installation Vessel

Wärtsilä and Aker Solutions  have agreed to combine their fields of expertise to develop a new and environmentally sound concept for offshore wind farm installation vessels. According to the contract, which was signed earlier this year, Wärtsilä will provide the new installation vessels with the ship design, electrical power generation, propulsion machinery and high-end...

Jack up Drilling Rig Modules Installation

ALE has performed the installation of the 402te leg sections and the 575 te living quarter of the jack up drilling rig for Swecomex in Tuxpan, Mexico. Both maneuvers were carried out using the CC 8800-1 crane. The leg sections installation maneuver was performed with a configuration SFVL: 108m main boom, 12m fixed jib...

New Contract Safe Scandinavia ConocoPhillips

Skandinavia AS has awarded Prosafe a two-month contract for use of the Safe Scandinavia for accommodation support at the Eldfisk Platform in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. On site operations are planned to commence in May 2012.  Furthermore, reference is made to press release dated 12 January 2011 where Prosafe announced the...

Deepwater Mooring Line Contract

Deepwater rope manufacturer, Lankhorst Ropes, has secured the first-ever, worldwide order for Dyneema synthetic mooring rope for deepwater MODU (Mobile Operating Drilling Unit) projects from Brazilian oil and gas producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras). Gama 98 is a rope construction developed by Lankhorst Ropes specifically for deepwater mooring, and used on a number of...

Turkey Full Speed Ahead

The 11th Exposhipping Europort Istanbul 2011 witnessed a festive opening on Tuesday 23 March with a number of speeches a.o. by Mr Serkan Tiglioglu (ceo NTSR) and Mr Jos van der Vegt (ceo Ahoy Rotterdam). According to Mr Jos van der Vegt Turkey is moving full speed ahead to be one of the leading...

Thrusters Next Generation Deep Water Drillships

Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. has  received a contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries for the supply and installation of multiple sets of 5MW azimuth thrusters for the next generation deep water drillships, being built at Hyundai’s shipyard in Ulsan, Korea. The vessels are of the Gusto P10,000 design, capable of drilling in water depths of...

Certificate for CoolTM System

The COOLTM system is comprised of a flexible cryogenic floating LNG hose and connectors designed to allow the transfer of LNG between vessels in a tandem moored configuration, e.g. in exactly the same way that traditional floating oil and gas facilities carry out cargo transfers. SBM Offshore has also completed the qualification for the manufacturing...

New Schlumberger Quartz Gauges

Schlumberger has announced the introduction of Signature quartz gauges for well testing operations. The new gauges operate reliably in rugged downhole conditions to obtain high-quality pressure measurements throughout a test, even in high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) conditions up to 30,000 psi and 410 degF. New-generation ceramic-based electronics were designed by Schlumberger metrology...

Joint Development Programme

Class society ABS and Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering  (DSME) are concluding a one-year joint development programme (JDP) examining critical wave conditions for sloshing model tests and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the cargo tanks of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessels.  The results will offer the industry a new methodology to determine...

Memorandum of Understanding

Alexey Miller, chairman of the OAO Gazprom Management Committee, and Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, chairman of the board of executive directors of BASF SE, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which will see the BASF subsidiary Wintershall acquire a 15 %stake in the company South Stream AG. Gazprom will retain its 50 % shareholding according to...

Rina Develops CNG rules and guidelines

International classification society RINA has used its offshore gas expertise to develop rules and guidelines for the exploitation, transport and storage of Compressed Natural Gas. Angelo Lo Nigro, Oil and Gas Manager, RINA, says, “Compressed natural gas offers an alternative way to move natural gas where volumes do not support a liquefaction plant or...

Meet Us at Europort Istanbul

With over 200 exhibitors from 30 countries Europort Istanbul 2011 brings together the global maritime industry. The eleventh edition if the international maritime trade fair will take place from 23 to 26 March in the Istanbul Expo Centre, nearby the Tuzla shipbuilding area. Visitors can pick up their free Maritime Services Directory 2011 (normally...

T.D. Williamson Has a New Vice President

T.D. Williamson Inc. (TDW),  known in the pipeline industry since 1920, is has announced that Mike Benjamin has joined the company as vice president, Offshore Pipeline Solutions, located in Houston. In this capacity, which became effective on 1 March, Benjamin will focus on fully implementing the full array of TDW products and services –...

Alewijnse In Agile Pipe-Laying Conversion

Alewijnse is playing a major role in the conversion of the 8,250DWT Agile from a construction vessel into a high-tech, pipe-laying vessel. The work is taking place at the Scheldepoort Shipyard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and is due for completion by mid-June. After conversion the Agile will sail for Brazil where she will engage...

Joint Venture for Manning and Shipmanagement Services

The Sanko Steamship Co Ltd and Hellespont Group have entered into a joint venture for manning and/or shipmanagement services to Sanko’s and Hellespont’s offshore fleets through their Singapore subsidiaries. The joint venture company, Sanko-Hellespont Offshore Management Pte Ltd, owned by Sanko Ship Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Hellespont Singapore Pte Ltd, started operations on...

Pioneering Fire Deluge Technology

Paradigm Flow Solutions has launched a patented technology to market to tackle the persistent problem of lockages in ageing water deluge systems which are designed to extinguish fires offshore. The company, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Paradigm Group, has developed the innovative Deluge Preservation service in direct response to safety issues facing the North Sea’s older oil...

Contract for Cargotec to Supply Anchor-Handling Systems

Cargotec has won a contract to supply two sets of MacGregor anchor-handling systems for two anchor-handling tug /supply / oil recovery vessels under construction at a Chinese Shipyard for a Singaporean owner. The anchor-handling equipment is scheduled for delivery at the end of 2011 and it will be manufactured at Cargotec’s facilities for offshore...

New Helicopter Training Platform

STC-SAIO, member of the STC-Group, installed a new extensive helicopter training platform with integrated Free-Fall lifeboat on 10 March 2011 in Rotterdam. The helicopter training platform, which has a weight of 28,000 kg and has a stainless-steel helicopter-module, will be used for various training objectives, ranging from helicopterlanding officer training to helicopter fire-fighting training. The installation...

A Twin for Heavy Lift Vessel Svenja

She perfectly resembles her sister, is just as strong and can be positioned to maximumprecision: SAL Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land puts the new building MV ‘Lone’ into service. Just three months after the German-based heavy-lift shipping company has sent the MV ‘Svenja’ on its maiden voyage, the company’s fleet has now been expanded by a...

Sigma Offshore Presents Smart Mooring System

A worldwide authority on the offshore industry will be one of the speakers at a key event for oil and gas production vessels in Singapore next week (March 15-16, 2011). David Galbraith, chief technology officer at Aberdeen-based Sigma Offshore, will give a presentation at the third annual Asia-Pacific FPSO Summit 2011 on the qualification...

Facilities Expansion

Completions and sand control specialist Darcy has nearly trebled its operational space in a relocation move designed to support the company’s growth strategy. It has transferred to a new 929.03 square m office and purpose designed workshop facility on Kintore Business Park in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, as part of a wider development plan that is expected to see...