Senegal’s Petrosen is seeking tenders for two blocks offshore Senegal, including the Senegal Offshore Sud Profond (SOSP) block, much to African Petroleum’s surprise.
Offshore driller Shelf Drilling has secured a contract for the Adriatic I jack-up rig with Sirius Petroleum. Sirius has scrapped the rig deal it had with COSL
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Shell approves LNG Canada investment The Hague-based LNG giant Shell has taken a final investment decision on LNG Canada, a major liquefied natural gas export project in Kitimat, British Columbia. Russian LNG player Novatek ties up with Germany’s Siemens Russia’s largest independent natural gas prod
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 01 – October 07). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/10/02/subsea-7-onesubsea-partnership-clinches-new-gom-deal/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/10/03/bp-and-aker-bp-form-strategic-alliance/ ht
DEME’s Board of Directors announces that on 1 January 2019, Luc Vandenbulcke will succeed Alain Bernard as the company’s CEO. Alain Bernard (aged 63) started working for the group in 1980 and has been CEO of DEME since 2006. Over the past 12 years he transformed the group from a purely dredging orga
The worldwide offshore rig count for September 2018 rose year-on-year but slightly dipped compared to August 2018.
On the Egyptian coast, a desalination plant is being constructed and Damen is taking significant role in this project. The program includes a 500m long, 10m wide and 4m deep sea water inlet channel. According to the Dutch defense, shipbuilding and engineering conglomerate, this channel will be creat
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä won a contract for a 38 MW power plant project by the EPC company Groupement TEC-IEE in Equatorial Guinea.
Unique Group’s Marine & Subsea division has entered into a contract with the Southern African Shipyards to provide a turnkey package for hydrographic survey vessels and hydrographic office set up. The project will include multiple newbuild vessels – main vessel and support vessels. Unique Group will
Dormac Durban recently completed work on the Sagar Manthan, a water injection dredging vessel (WID). During the work, the Sagar Manthan received a dry docking where the tail shafts were replaced with two brand new tail shafts and two spare propellers. The sea chests, overboard valves and bow thruste
