The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-17, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-17 will be drilled from the Transocean Winner drilling facility at position 58°50’13.74’’ north and 02°18’53.41’’ east in production li
Welaptega Marine has been awarded a mooring inspection and “fitness for purpose evaluation” on Dhirubhai-1 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility located in the Bay of Bengal, off the eastern coast of India. The client is Aker Floating Production. “This is a comprehensive fitness
A submarine cable between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits is set to open on Friday, China Daily quoted a Chinese mainland spokesman. According to Yang Yi, the spokesman of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, the construction of the cable linking the city of Fuzhou of Fujian province on the
Specialist oil firm Opus has secured a £70,000 study contract in Australia to help a major oil company maximise its operations while meeting environmental targets. Opus, with headquarters in Guildford in Surrey and test/development facilities in Flotta in Orkney, has been given the go ahead to carry
Welaptega Marine has been awarded a mooring inspection and “fitness for purpose evaluation” on Dhirubhai-1 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility located in the Bay of Bengal, off the eastern coast of India. The client is Aker Floating Production. “This is a comprehensive fitness
Bibby Remote Intervention Limited (BRIL), a division of Bibby Offshore, is expanding its fleet by signing a contract to charter the multi-purpose offshore vessel the Toisa Warrior in its biggest vessel charter to date. The vessel will come under the control of BRIL in February 2013 on a 180-day char
OEG Offshore announced the further expansion of its service offering in the Caribbean with a new depot location, agent appointment and major fleet acquisition in Trinidad and Tobago. OEG Offshore has appointed EPIC Energy Services Limited as of 1st January 2013 to act as its Trinidadian agent and re
This year at the second annual NAVDEX maritime security exhibition, Sonardyne International Ltd. will be giving live demonstrations of its fully automated surface and underwater security system NiDAR, and world leading diver detection sonar, Sentinel IDS. Taking place at the ADNEC exhibition centre
ABCO Subsea, a Houston-based custom manufacturer of products for the offshore industry, will exhibit for the first time at the Subsea Tieback Forum and Exhibition from March 5-7 in San Antonio. Representatives from the company intend to showcase ABCO Subsea’s vertebrae bend restrictors (VBR), hydrau
The Minutes of Discussion has been signed between Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) for granting of Grab Hopper Dredger Machine. This support under Japanese Grant Aid Scheme will strengthen the maintenance dredging capacity at the fishery harbors under
TenneT and Mitsubishi Corporation officially closed their partnership with respect to two German offshore high-voltage cable projects, BorWin1 and BorWin2. Mitsubishi’s voting interest will be 49% with aggregate maximum equity commitment of EUR 240 million. At the same time both partners signed a co
The Cat® 312D/D L Series 2 hydraulic excavator uses a powerful Cat 3054C diesel engine that meets U.S. EPA Tier 2 and EU Stage II emissions regulations. Depending on the regional offering, the new model is available in standard and/or long undercarriage configurations, the new model has operating we
Bolt tightening specialist, Tentec Ltd, announces that it will be showing its bolt tensioning products for the oil and gas industry on the stand of its Australian distributor National Tools on Stand M1 at AOG 2013 in Perth, Australia from 20th – 22nd February. Tentec’s Sales Director, Roy Sheldon, w
GE Oil & Gas has won a contract worth more than US$500 million to supply turbomachinery equipment and services to Petrobras, a world leader in deep-water oil production. The contract will serve the four new floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77) in the Ce
