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  • Highlights of the Week

    23 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 17 – April 23). TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea joint venture has taken delivery of a newbuild pipelay support vessel (PLSV) the Skandi Búzios. The PLSV started its 8-year charter contract with Petrobras on April 13, 2017. Skandi […]

  • Nigeria: Hippo Marine Wins Contract from Subsea 7 to Supply Pipelaying Buoyancy Modules

    21 June 2011
    Business & Finance

      Fendercare subsidiary Hippo Marine has recently been awarded a contract by Subsea 7 for the supply of 80 pipelaying buoyancy modules, each with a net buoyancy of 2100kg and an operational depth rating of 40m. These are destined for use on phase 3B of the Escravos Gas Project being conducted offshore Onne (Nigeria). The […]

  • Alicat Prospers in Offshore Renewables Market (UK)

    10 October 2011

    Alicat Workboats Ltd. has seen the launch of its sixth vessel since being set up just over two years ago, establishing itself as a market leader in providing state-of-the-art catamarans to the offshore renewables sector. The high speed aluminium built vessels are specifically designed to quickly and comfortably transfer workers to offshore wind farms and […]

  • Alicat Prospers in Offshore Renewables Market (UK)

    10 October 2011

    Alicat Workboats Ltd. has seen the launch of its sixth vessel since being set up just over two years ago, establishing itself as a market leader in providing state-of-the-art catamarans to the offshore renewables sector. The high speed aluminium built vessels are specifically designed to quickly and comfortably transfer workers to offshore wind farms and […]

  • BMT Nigel Gee Initiates Cooperation with Cayman Island Shipping Registry

    12 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of BMT Group, is set to launch its latest technical paper in collaboration with the Cayman Island Shipping Registry (CISR). Developed to provide insight for a wide range of industry stakeholders, the paper examines aspects of the 2010 Passenger Yacht Code (PYC) which aims to provide a Safety of Life […]

  • Bibby Ship Management Buys Murray Fenton (India)

    8 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Bibby Ship Management Group Ltd. announce the acquisition of Murray Fenton (India) Surveyors Limited. The acquisition was made via Bibby Ship Management India Pvt. Ltd, and will see India’s service offering expand into marine, cargo and offshore surveying including marine audit services. Operations will be based in Mumbai and Gujarat, with geographic expansion into other […]

  • BiFab Yards Facing Closure, New Contracts Only Way Out

    13 February 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Project & Tenders

    Some 260 workers at the BiFab marine engineering yards in Fife and Arnish, Scotland, will be made redundant and the yards will be completely closed by the end of June if no new contracts are secured, Unite Scotland reports. 

  • Bergen Group, Calexco pen revised NorYards agreement

    21 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Bergen Group ASA has today signed an agreement with Calexco S.a.r.l. regarding revisions of the terms for Bergen Group ASA’s sale of the majority interest in NorYards AS (“Noryards”) to Calexco. The main deviations from the SPA executed in July 2013, as further described in Bergen Group’s detailed announcement dated 24 July 2013, are as follows:   […]

  • Esvagt wins Hess extension, orders new vessel from Havyard

    6 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Danish shipowner Esvagt has extended its collaboration with the oil company Hess. As a result, the shipowner has ordered a new multi-purpose vessel with Havyard that will operate on Hess’ South Arne field in the Danish North Sea.  Esvagt and Hess, who have collaborated at the South Arne field for 17 years, have agreed to extend […]

  • European Commission Investigating GE-LM Wind Power Deal

    22 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    The European Commission (EC) is reviewing the acquisition of LM Wind Power by GE to determine whether GE filed misleading information regarding its offshore wind technology plans during the review of the acquisition.

  • EnBW Implements Measures for Further Investments in New Energy Concept

    26 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    “The past fiscal year was not an easy year for the energy industry and therefore also not for EnBW. It is all the more pleasing that we were able to create the main conditions for further forward-looking investments, despite the difficult general environment. The measures we have taken to safeguard EnBW’s financial stability and its […]

  • Pay dispute brings ‘unprecedented’ strike action to five major UK oil & gas operators

    10 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    UK’s Unite the union has revealed a 48-hour stoppage on dozens of offshore platforms on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS).

  • Governor Tours Mud-to-Parks Site (USA)

    11 October 2012

    Governor Pat Quinn yesterday visited the East Peoria riverfront to announce the innovative Mud-to-Parks program, which makes use of soil dredged from the silt-choked Illinois River to build a new park on Lake Michigan. Sixty barge loads of sediment dredged from the Illinois River at East Peoria are traveling 163 miles to the old U.S. […]

  • Chevron staying ahead of LNG game with another 20-year US offtake deal

    25 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Chevron has taken steps to secure additional liquefied natural gas (LNG) by inking one more sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Energy Transfer for the delivery of supplies from an LNG export project being developed on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.

  • Venture Global LNG secures more funds for LNG projects

    16 August 2018

    Venture Global LNG raked in additional $160 million from large institutional investors bringing the company’s aggregate funding total to $630 million. 

  • UK prospect nears spud date, while sanctioning of another West of Shetland project gets delayed

    19 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    A rig has been hired for the drilling of a prospect in the UK later this year, but a FID for another project has been postponed.

  • Tools of the trade

    16 September 2016

    Cost-cutting. A combination of words warmly greeted in the offshore wind industry and for that matter also the outcome of marine service provider Houlder’s pile upending tool recently delivered for work on the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm development, off the Sussex coast in the English Channel. Construction of the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm has commenced and the first offshore foundation […]

  • Aker Solutions to Split Into Two Companies

    11 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    The board of directors of Aker Solutions ASA (“Aker Solutions”) has in accordance with the strategy disclosed April 30 resolved to propose to the company’s shareholders that Aker Solutions be split into two companies. The board has also determined to write down the value of some assets in the Aker Oilfield Services unit of Akastor, […]

  • Economic Growth of Middle East in Close Connection with Sea-Faring Tradition

    26 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    The economic growth of the Middle East region is clearly entwined with its rich sea-faring tradition, which has made the UAE the home to nine seaports and the world’s third largest re-export market that trades with more than 220 countries today. The economic benefits of the shipping and shipbuilding industry and its positive impact on […]

  • NOC’s Autosub6000 Acquires Most Detailed Survey of Porcupine Abyssal Plain

    3 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The most detailed photographic survey of the abyssal ocean floor has been taken by the National Oceanography Centre’s robot sub, Autosub6000 – some half a million photos that will be stitched together to form a ‘street view’ map of the North Atlantic’s Porcupine Abyssal Plain and its inhabitants. Forward and down-facing cameras mounted on the […]

  • Ballast Water Convention – Tripartite Meeting Shares Concerns with Implementation

    14 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Representatives of the leading worldwide Associations of Shipbuilders, Classification Societies and Shipowners met in Busan, Korea for their annual Tripartite meeting hosted by the Korean Register of Shipping and KOSHIPA, the national shipbuilders association. The meeting was united in expressing its serious concern with the obstacles that all three parties face as the Ballast Water […]

  • Brazil: Petrobras to Install LNG Regasification Terminal in Bahia

    1 March 2011

      The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, will participate in the ceremony that will announce the installation of the Bahia Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Terminal (TRBA) Tuesday. During the event, Petrobras and the Government of Bahia will sign the Protocol of Intentions that will define the actions to be taken by the parties in […]

  • Belgium: MSC Transfers Its Activities to Deurganck Dock

    13 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The MSC shipping company is to consolidate all its activities in the Port of Antwerp in the Deurganck dock, on the left bank of the Scheldt. The Port Authority board of directors gave the go-ahead for the move yesterday. The transfer is necessary in order to permit further expansion by MSC in Antwerp. The shipping […]

  • Falkland Islands: Rockhopper, Desire Petroleum Reach Farm-In Agreement

    12 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, announces that Rockhopper Exploration (Oil) Limited, a subsidiary of the Company (“Rockhopper Oil”), has today agreed the terms of a farm-in agreement, subject to the approval of the Falkland Islands Government, with Desire Petroleum Plc to farm-in to that part of the […]

  • JAMSTEC Presents Progress Report on QUELLE2013

    21 October 2013

    In an effort to study a variety of marine organisms which have evolved to live in extreme environments, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), led by President Asahiko Taira, has begun a project called QUELLE2013. This project began in January 2013, using the manned research submersible SHINKAI 6500 and its support vessel […]