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Ensco plc. has announced that one of its subsidiaries has finalised a fixed-price shipyard construction contract with Keppel Fels Limited in Singapore for construction of two new ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs. Including commissioning, system integrated-testing and project management, the construction cost is expected to be approximately USD 230 million per rig. The shipyard construction price...

Gaoh Offshore signed a Letter of Intent covering the design development and construction of its multi-purpose wind farm development vessel, the Deepwater Installer. Gaoh Offshore and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co  signed the letter at the end of 2010 and board approval was given last month. The LOI is for construction at the STX Dalian...

Wärtsilä Propulsion Services portfolio contacted International Business Research (IBR) to do research in Mexico. IBR offers unique research opportunities for Dutch companies, and the aim of this research is to give Wärtsilä insights into the Mexican market, speficically local developments and the preferences of potential customers. IBR reports that the local offshore sector offers...

Statoil has found gas and condensate around two km west of the Gullfaks South field in the middle sector of the North Sea. The size of the discovery is estmated at between 19 and 75 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Plans call for tie-back of the discovery to existing infrastructure in the Gullfaks...

Oil and gas services company Reservoir Group (RG) has expanded its operations in the US and entered a new industry sector after joining forces with The Mudlogging Company, a Houston-based company specialising in surface logging services. The alliance will complement the Group’s international success as a business focused on  activities for the hydrocarbon reservoir...

Maersk FPSO has completed the retrieval and pull-in of a submerged turret production (STP) buoy into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, offshore Brazil, using a first subsea ball and taper, buoy pull-in tool. Moored in 100 m of water, in Peregrino field, Block BM-C-7, Campos Basin, the STP buoy is held in place with 10...

Dockwise has appointed Hyundai Heavy Industries  as the builder of a new vessel to service the emerging market for ultra-large transports, due by the end of 2012. HHI is scheduled to deliver the vessel during the last quarter of 2012, following sea trials, when it is intended to undertake its initial commercial voyage. The new...

Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a Surf contract with a  value at approximately USD 75 million from ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, acting as technical service provider on behalf of the operator Gassco, in the German Sector of the North Sea. This contract is for the engineering, procurement and installation of a subsea...

The Briggs Group has secured a new five year agreement with SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy ). The deal will see Burntisland-based Briggs deploying tailored systems from among its fleet of 30 vessels to repair and maintain a network of over 500 kilometres of cable in some of the harshest marine environments in Europe....

Craig International Supplies (CIS), a division of global shipping and energy services firm Craig Group, has secured a duo of brand new contracts estimated to be worth GBP 3 million over the next three years. The new contracts are with global energy organisations, Diamond Offshore and Prosafe. CIS provides oilfield procurement services to the...

Oilfield equipment specialist Titan Torque Services has secured a six-figure contract to provide support services for exploration work off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It has signed a one-year deal with well management company AGR Petroleum Services to provide torquing facilities in support of the operation of the drilling rig Ocean Guardian....

Aberdeen-based moorings provider Sigma Offshore has received independent endorsement for the centrepiece of its market offering – its innovative Smart Mooring System (SMS). The system has been endorsed by one of the leading classification societies, Det Norsk Veritas (DNV), after a comprehensive assessment process. The FPSO or FSO bow mooring and riser in-boarding system...

AVEVA, one of the world’s leading providers of engineering design and information management solutions to the plant, power and marine industries, today announced that STX OSV AS has signed an agreement to purchase the full AVEVA Marine solution suite. This deployment will provide STX OSV AS with a powerful system for integrated Hull and...

Aker Wirth has been honoured for the second time as one of the best German small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) employers. Top Job was convinced by the exceptionally good personnel management at the Erkelenz enterprise. In recognition of this, Dr. Wolfgang Clement, the former German economics minister and mentor of the project, presented the...

Subsea 7 S.A. has announced the award of two new contracts from Petrobras for activities offshore Brazil. An extension to the contract for the Acergy Harrier. This contract, valued at approximately USD 40 million, is for the provision of saturation diving services to water depths of 300 m for new construction tasks and inspection, maintenance...

Scana Industrier ASA has through it’s subsidary Scana Offshore Vestby AS, been awarded a Letter of Intent (LOI) to deliver sixteen offloading systems to Brazil. The LOI is issued by the Brazilian company Engevix Construcões Oceânicas S.A, and covers eight Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSOs) under construction.  The contract value is approximately EUR...

Oilennium Ltd, a provider of technical and Health and Safety training programmes to the international oil and gas industry, announced that it has dramatically expanded its range of Learning Management System (LMS) online training modules, and that for the first time they are available for individual purchase.  Previously, the LMS, which is an online...

Helix Energy Solutions Group has announced that it has executed agreements for its Helix Fast Response System (HFRS) to be named as a spill response resource for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in response plans submitted by oil and gas producers with state and federal authorities. The HFRS centers on two vessels, the Helix...

Anglo-Dutch company Offshore Ship Designers has launched a new offshore wind farm maintenance vessel concept which will improve uptime of deepwater wind turbines and reduce maintenance costs and carbon emissions whilst offering a solution to the logistics problem of carrying out simultaneous multiple wind turbine maintenance. The Sea-Wind WMV vessel design is for a...

Subsea 7 S.A. announces the launch of its offshore renewables division, transferring its proven seabed-tosurface expertise, capabilities and strong safety and risk management processes and systems to specifically develop and execute work in this emerging market. Subsea 7 will provide project management, engineering and construction services to support offshore developments in the global renewables...

AMC Connector, a future new-build subsea installation and construction vessel from Aker Solutions, has finalised its vessel specifications. With a total payload capacity of 9 000 t of subsea power cables or umbilicals, the vessel will be well equipped to target the deepwater installation segment. AMC Connector – previously called Aker Connector – will...

Subsea mooring specialist, First Subsea is using innovative non-destructive testing (NDT) technology to inspect the quality of forgings used in the new range of LankoFirst fibre rope connectors for deepwater moorings.  PCRT undertaken by Vibrant NDT Ltd is the only NDT technology to correlate to the structural integrity of the inspected component. The fibre...

PTR Holland BV – the world’s largest manufacturer of rope ladders – has recently started the expansion of its warehousing and office facilities at the company headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The provider of products such as embarkation, lifeboat and gangway ladders, scaffolding, nets, anti-corrosion tapes and a host of other safety related products...

The newbuild Pazflor floating production, storage offloading vessel is expected to sail away this month for Total-operated Block 17 in Angola from South Korea this week.  The FPSO was officially named last week at a ceremony at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s yard in Okpo. The production floater is equipped with processing capacity for...

Statoil has awarded DeepOcean a survey and pipeline construction support contract. The contract has a firm duration of 3 months plus 3 monthly options. The work is planned to start during February 2011 in support of Statoil’s offshore pipeline installation activities at the Marulk and Smørbukk North East field developments. The scope of work...