GSP announces its drilling fleet has been extended up to seven offshore mobile drilling rigs and a modular one. GSP Britannia (ex. Britannia) and GSP Fortuna (ex. G.H. Galloway) entered GSP’s fleet in August. GSP Fortuna is an ABS class three legged independent leg cantilever jack-up rig reaching th
Havila Shipping ASA has entered an agreement to acquire 23% of the shares in Havila PSV DIS, bringing the company’s ownership to 97%. Havila PSV DIS owns the two PSVs Havila Commander and Havila Crusader, which are leased to Havila Shipping on 8-year bareboat leases. Havila Shipping acquired 74% of
Innovative gadgets and widgets which underpin the subsea industry’s cutting-edge technological reputation are to come under the spotlight at… [mappress] Source: SubseaUK, August 31, 2011;
VSG, leader in 3D development toolkits, announced that they have signed a global partnership agreement with Schlumberger, leading provider of oil and gas software solutions.. This collaboration agreement will expand the integration of VSG’s Open Inventor technology across the whole range of Schlumbe
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Rocksource ASA a drilling permit for wellbore 6608/11-7 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6608/11-7 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling facility in position 66°14’01.32” north and 8°30’47.34” east after comp
RWE Dea UK’s field developments Breagh and Clipper South are both progressing on schedule. On a visit to Heerema’s fabrication yard in Zwijndrecht (Netherlands) today, RWE Dea CEO Thomas Rappuhn emphasized the high significance of both projects: “The proven reserves play an important role to signifi
Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) is pleased to announce that the drilling of exploration well 6407/5-2S in license PL471 in the Norwegian Sea is about to be completed, and has resulted in a small gas discovery. The well objectives were to prove hydrocarbons in the Chamonix prospect, a stratigra
GSP announces its drilling fleet has been extended up to seven offshore mobile drilling rigs and a modular one. GSP Britannia (ex. Britannia) and GSP Fortuna (ex. G.H. Galloway) entered GSP’s fleet in August. GSP Fortuna is an ABS class three legged independent leg cantilever jack-up rig reaching th
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into an agreement to acquire OHM Surveys Holding AS (OHM), a marine electromagnetic (EM) acquisition company, from certain funds controlled by Sector Asset Management and Seatrans Group (Euro Trans Skips AS) for USD 15.75 million in a stock-for-stoc
Antrim Energy Inc. , a partner in the Causeway Field located in UKCS Block 211/22a South West Area and Block 211/23d (Antrim 35.5%) announces submission of the final Field Development Plan (“FDP”) to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (“DECC”) and that Board approval has been gained from pa
Scorpio Ship Management s.a.m. (“SSM”) recently announced that its managed vessel, STI Heritage, has successfully completed a voyage from Vitino, Russia to Map Ta Phut, Thailand, via the Northern Sea Route (“NSR”). This is the first such voyage for a vessel managed by SSM. The NSR, which connects th
Foster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Aibel AS for the provision of detailed design engineering services to support Aibel, which has been appointed by Statoil as the main engineering, procurement and constr
Shares in struggling Neptune Marine Services jumped at the open after the company revealed late yesterday its board had rejected a takeover… The West Australian [mappress] Source: The West Australian, August 31, 2011;
Through its Brazilian subsidiary, Norskan Offshore, DOF has signed a contract with Petrobras for Skandi Botafogo. The contract will commence in third quarter 2011 and has a firm duration of 2 years. Skandi Botafogo is an AHTS of UT 722 L design built in Brazil in 2006. Anchor Handling Tug Supply Ves
