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Dockwise Announces Newbuild ‘Super Vessel’

Dockwise Ltd. has announced that its Board of Directors has approved the commissioning of a newbuild vessel to serve the emerging demand for ocean transports of up to and above 100,000 metric tons. The decision is subject to approval by a Special General Meeting of shareholders to authorise the proposed USD 100 million rights...

Boskalis wins EUR 100 million worth of contracts in Africa

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded three contracts on the African subcontinent with a total value of approximately € 100 million. The largest contract was awarded in Nigeria by Saipem and involves dredging and equipment maintenance support work for an operational oil facility. Two other recently awarded projects located in Morocco and the...

Mobilarm annouced that it has secured a significant new contract

Mobilarm has announced that it has secured a significant new contract to supply its VHF Locator Beacons to Bristow Helicopters Australia as the sole contractor to BHP Billiton Petroleum for offshore personnel transfers by helicopter in Australia. In the initial order, Mobilarm will supply 50 of its innovative V100 VHF beacons for integration into...

Cargotec signs EUR 10 million order for MacGregor anchor-handling system

In October Cargotec has secured EUR 10 million order from the Sinopacific Group in China for the supply of a further 16-shipsets of anchor-handling systems for Bourbon’s new buildings. The ship sets will be delivered between April 2011 and February 2012. This contract follows an order placed in June this year for four ships...

Xodus Group secures major renewables contract

Energy consultancy Xodus Group today revealed it has won a significant three year contract with SSE Renewables to carry out an Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Costa Head offshore wave site, north of Mainland Orkney. The Aberdeen headquartered consultancy which also has offices in Orkney, Edinburgh and London, has been retained as lead...

Berg Makes Offshore Breakthrough In Brazil

Berg Propulsion has made a significant new breakthrough into the fast-growing offshore vessel construction market in Brazil, just a few months after establishing a regional office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s shipping capital. Berg has secured a contract to equip a 64m oil spill response vessel ordered by Astromaritima Navegacao at the Estaleiro Ilha...

Hamworthy Pumps Prime For Brazil Offshore

Gusto BV has specified seawater lift pumps and electric fire pumps from Hamworthy for installation on board the Cidade de Paraty floating production and storage offshore (FPSO) vessel, due for delivery into Brazilian waters in 2013. Gusto will operate the FPSO, on behalf of Petrobras in the Tupi Nordeste development in the Santos basin...

Sub-Atlantic Wins Major ROV Contract

ROV manufacturer Sub-Atlantic Ltd has won a contract to supply a Comanche ROV system for scientific research in a deal worth just over GBP 1million. The specialist subsea vehicle will support the construction and maintenance of the MoLab -modular seafloor observatory unit at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel University in North Germany....

Noble Bully II Drill Tower Underway From Huisman To Singapore

The drill tower for the Noble Bully II drill ship has left the Huisman quay in Schiedam, heading for the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, for an early November arrival. Huisman designed and manufactured the drilling tower and related cranes, pipe, riser and BOP handling equipment. Most equipment has been manufactured at the Huisman’s Dutch...

DNV To Investigate Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventer

DNV has been contracted by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of the departments of the Interior and Homeland Security for the forensic examination of the blowout preventer (BOP) and lower marine riser package that was fitted to the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, utilising its forensic...

Tidal Subsea Power Cable Delivered

Draka Offshore announced today that the 11,000 meters of 20kV subsea cable for the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been delivered on-time. Draka’s subsea power cables are now being produced from their newly expanded production facility in Drammen, Norway. Produced at Draka’s production facility in Drammen, Norway, the 11,000 meters of power cable...

New Deepwater Drillship

Seadrill’s new ultra-deepwater drillship West Gemini has commenced operations for Total in Angola. West Gemini, which was delivered from the Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea end of June 2010, arrived offshore Angola in West Africa end of August and has since arrival prepared for start-up of operations. The drillship is chartered to Total...

Apache to Develop Macedon Field

Apache Corporation will proceed with development of the Macedon gas field in the Exmouth Basin in Western Australia. The project will commercialise natural gas from offshore production license WA-42-L, located 60 miles west of Onslow. First production is expected during 2013. Apache has a 28% interest and its share of the estimated $1.5 billion...

Gibdock Completes Offshore Vessel Upgrade

Gibraltar’s Gibdock shipyard has completed a maintenance and upgrade programme on the DP2 class ROV/Subsea Service and Platform Support vessel, Toisa Vigilant. The vessel spent over three weeks at the yard  this year for a diverse package of works. Gibdock managing director, Joe Corvelli, states that the offshore vessel segment is a key target market for...

Katla Project to FMC Technologies

This week, FMC Technologies, announced that it has signed an agreement with Statoil for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Katla development. The award has a value of approximately $75 million. Katla is a offshore oil and gas field located in water depths of approximately 95 m in the Norwegian sector...

World Largest Wind Farm Opens

September 23,Vattenfall officially opened the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, off England’s south east coast. The wind farm has 100 turbines and will generate electricity equivalent to the annual consumption of over 200,000 households. To Vattenfall, one of the leading European energy companies, wind power is an important part of the...

Joint Fugro-EMGS Survey for Woodside

Fugro has been awarded a CSEM contract by Woodside, Australia’s largest publically traded hydrocarbon exploration and production company. The acquisition part of this contract, will be subcontracted to Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA. The survey will take place on the North West Shelf offshore Australia end of 2010 using the 3D EM vessel BOA Galatea.  ...

New Oil Discovery

Lundin Petroleum  is pleased to announce that the drilling of exploration well 16/2-6 on the Avaldsnes prospect has resulted in a significant oil discovery. The well is located in Block 16/2, part of production licence PL501, in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The well was drilled to a...

Exploration License In The Black Sea.

Chevron Corporation  announced today that its Turkish subsidiary has signed a Joint Operation Agreement with Turkey’s state oil company for an exploration license in the Black Sea. “This agreement represents a significant exploration entry into a new basin,” said George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron Corporation.  “We look forward to bringing our technological expertise, global deepwater experience...

Pipelay Vessel Delivered

Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), the specialised shipbuilding arm of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), is on schedule to deliver GLOBAL 1200, the first of two new generation derrick pipelay vessels to Global Industries. Mr John Reed, CEO of Global Industries, said:”The construction of subsea pipelines is expected to intensify globally...

New Semi-Submersible Production Facility

A letter of agreement has been signed for the provision, lease and operation of a semi-submersible production facility for the Tubular Bells field. The agreement allows SBM Offshore to start engineering and commit substantial hardware investment in the facility until final sanction which has been scheduled for the second quarter of 2011. The final...

Major Oil Find For Kosmos Energy

Kosmos Energy announces  that the Owo-1 exploration well have discovered a column of  light oil offshore the Republic of Ghana on the Tano Block. The well was drilled 0.6 km to the east of the discovery well, which  intersected a deeper portion of the Owo channel system and confirmed that Owo is a new oil field. The...

Class Support for Papa Terra Field Development

Classification society ABS has been selected to class two of the major components in Petrobras’ Papa Terra offshore Brazil field development. The tension-leg wellhead platform nown as P-61 and the floating production, storage and offloading  unit known as P-63 will both be ABS classed. The P-61 is the first-of- its-kind TLP dry tree application...

New Subsea Contract For Expro

Expro announced today its Latin America Connectors & Measurements team has been awarded a new master service agreement (MSA) from Petrobrás for subsea electrical systems. As part of the contract, valued at R$4.3 million ($2.5 million) over three years, Expro will provide on-site field support for all Petrobrás projects using its market-leading Tronic connectors...

Statoil Is To Test Next Generation Turbine

In the world’s northernmost wind farm at Havøygavlen, Statoil is to test next generation turbine technology. The innovation is a gearless turbine that promises to achieve significant reductions in operation and maintenance costs for offshore wind power. “A lot of engineering work has gone into this, and the number of moving parts has been...