Top News of the Week May 27 – June 1, 2013

Ten Dead, One Missing in Tug Capsizing Incident Offshore Nigeria

Sea Trucks Group on Friday reported that, regarding the tug capsizing accident in Nigeria, search and rescue operations had been stopped  for safety reasons.. Ten bodies have been recovered.

First UK Built Platform in Years Almost Ready for Forties Field

Over £400 million and 7,000 jobs: British manufactured oil platform set for sail away down the Tyne to the Forties Field to boost North Sea output.

Diamond Offshore Secures Contract for Newly Ordered Rig

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced on Wednesday announced an agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to build a new Moss CS60E design harsh environment semisubmersible drilling rig.

Island Innovator Tilts in Hanøytangen. Workers Evacuated

Island Innovator semi-submersible rig, on a yard-stay in Hanøytangen, Norway, has been evacuated after it tilted 4 degrees.

Keel Laying Ceremony for Dana’s Western Isles FPSO

The keel laying of the floating, storage, production and offloading vessel (FPSO) marks a major milestone for Dana’s Western Isles project. Dana and its partner Cieco are investing $1.6 billion in a nine-well development of two oil fields called Harris and Barra in the Northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands

Ghana Approves Tullow’s TEN Development

The Government of Ghana on Thursday formally approved the Development Plan for the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Development (“the TEN Project”). The approval paves the way for Tullow and its partners, Kosmos Energy, Anadarko Petroleum, PetroSA and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, to proceed with the development of these discoveries.