Offshore player Greatship India is betting big on the subsea support services to drive its next leg of growth. [mappress] Source:Profit, February 8, 2011;
The world market for turbines and related products (turbine-based engines, generators and generator sets) is projected to increase 6.1… (cienmagazine) [mappress] Source: cienmagazine, February 08, 2011
Nexans, worldwide expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7*, for the design, engineering and manufacture of a total length of 143km of static subsea electro-hydraulic control umbilicals for the Laggan-Tormore gas field development, 125km West of the Shetland Islands in t
Santos today announced that proved and probable (2P) hydrocarbon reserves increased to 1,445 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) as at the end of 2010. This represents a 2P reserves replacement ratio of 110% and is the company’s seventh successive annual increase in its reserves. Successful ex
Octanex N.L. has been advised by Eni Australia Limited (“Eni”) that at 07:00 hours WST (Western Standard Time) on Tuesday, 8 February 2011, the Saipem 10000 drillship had reached the Gawain-1 well location but is preparing to move away due to a worsening weather forecast. A tropical low was forming
Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered from stock a CSD500 to Kazachstan. The cutter suction dredger has started on its first job, the creation of a new irrigation channel. The standard dredger has been fitted out with several options before leaving the Nijkerk yard. The CSD500 is a modularly buil
Today, the world’s biggest submarine pipeline plough, PL3, arrived in the Baltic Sea on the deck of mother ship Far Samson. The subsea plough will be used to entrench the Nord Stream Pipeline in Swedish and Danish waters. Lowering of the pipeline below seabed level using PL3 ensures that the pipelin
EnCore Oil plc announced that the Catcher North appraisal well 28/9-3 located in UK Central North Sea block 28/9 was drilled to a Total Depth of 5,265 feet Measured Depth (M.D.) having successfully encountered hydrocarbons in both the Tay and Cromarty Sandstone intervals. Pressure data suggests that
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 303, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 15/6-12, located about 12 kilometres north of Sleipner Vest in the central part of the North Sea. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin formatio
Repsol has been chosen as Best European Energy Company for Leadership according to a study carried out by the International consulting firm Hay Group. This study, entitled Europe’s Best Companies for Leadership, evaluates the best companies on the continent in terms of the quality of their executive
Dredging International and MEDCO, have been awarded a contract for mixed dredging and civil engineering works to construct two artificial energy islands, including their service harbours, aimed to provide Abu Dhabi with energy based on facilities for oil drilling, etc. from the previously untapped o
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Chevron USA Inc. for the detailed design and delivery management of the riser systems for its Big Foot field development. The Big Foot field is owned by Chevron USA Inc. (operator) and other working interest owners, including but not lim
A staggering 9.3 GW of new wind power capacity was installed in the European Union during 2010, reaching a total of 84 GW by the end of 2010… (lowcarboneconomy) [mappress] Source: lowcarboneconomy, February 07, 2011
At a ceremony Ulstein Poland’s new, co-located offices in Gdynia, Ulstein Design & Solutions and DNV Poland signed a Letter of Intent signaling the start of a closer working relationship between the two companies. Both parties will benefit from the sharing of knowledge and practices which will help
