Fossil Energy
Jan De Nul places order for two rock installation vessels in China
Jan De Nul Group keeps on investing. This time, two 6,000 ton Subsea Rock Installation vessels have been ordered at AVIC Weihai shipyard in Weihai, China. The vessels will be able to install rock at depths up to about 600 m by means of a flexible fall pipe. An inclined fall pipe will enable accurate
Erin Energy names new CFO
After Serica Energy today said its CFO would resign later this month to take up a senior position of an oil and gas company, Erin Energy Corporation has revealed itself as the destination company. Erin Energy, until last week known as CAMAC Energy, announced today that Christopher J. Hearne will be
Rolls-Royce delivers its 1000th thruster for drillship newbuild
Rolls-Royce has just delivered its 1000th UUC underwater mountable thruster. It is the third unit in a series of six being installed on Seadrill’s new mobile drilling ship currently under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. John Knudsen, Rolls-Royce, President – Commercial Marine said
Unions in talks over 3 on, 3 off rotas
Representative of GMB and Unite unions in the UK are taking part in further talks today seeking a resolution of the dispute over what they say are unilateral changes to working conditions for workers covered by the Offshore Contractors Agreement (OCA) in UK waters. Members of both unions have alread
Fred. Olsen Energy: Rig supply/demand gap to be here in 2016 too
Fred. Olsen Energy, a Norwegian company owning drilling rigs, has said that floating rigs market continues to be challenging in all segments, with low tendering and contracting activity, further pressed by more newbuild units entering the market. In its presentation today, the company has revealed a
‘Cable Enterprise’ ready for Exxon gig
Prysmian Group has today announced a sail out of the newly upgraded vessel “Cable Enterprise”. The vessel was upgraded from a moored cable laying barge into a DP2 cable laying barge able to manoeuvre with its own propulsion system at the site of work. Following major conversion works, the vessel can
Ulstein unveils two new heavy lift vessel designs
Ulstein has officially introduced the HX103 and HX104 designs, DP3 vessels at the OTC 2015 conference in Houston. A dedicated feature on the DP3 designed vessels is the heavy-lift capability with large outreach combined with a large open deck space and accommodation for 350 and 500 people on board.
Repsol gets go-ahead for Hagar drilling (Norway)
Repsol Exploration Norge AS (RENAS) has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to drill the exploration well in the Norwegian Sea using Bredford Dolphin drilling rig. RENAS is the operator for production licence 642 in block 6306/5 in the southern Norwegian Sea. The explor
Serica CFO resigns to join another oil company
Serica Energy’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Hearne has informed the company that he will resign from his position in order to take up a senior position in another listed oil and gas company. Hearne has agreed to remain with Serica until 31 May 2015 in order to oversee the completion of the Erskine
Havyard CFO calls it quits
Havyard Group, a ship technology company that delivers products and services from vessel design to support of vessels in operation, has informed that its Chief Financial Officer has resigned. According to Havyard, Karl Eirik Frøysa Hansen has decided to resign as CFO in Havyard Group ASA. The compan
Peterson, Streamba unveal real-time supply chain tracker
Peterson together with enterprise software innovators Streamba, has unveiled VOR – a data-driven, intelligent and automated augmentation to the modern supply chain. The solution was released at this week’s Offshore Technology Conferency in Houston. VOR is an interactive, transformative upstream oil
Statoil in new chairman and deputy election
The nomination committee in Statoil has recommended that the company’s corporate assembly elects Øystein Løseth as new chair and Roy Franklin as a new member and deputy chair of Statoil’s board of directors. Furthermore, the nomination committee recommends a re-election of Bjørn Tore Godal, Jakob St
Cargotec chooses President for MacGregor business
Cargotec has appointed Michel van Roozendaal to head MacGregor business area. Michel van Roozendaal has been appointed President of the MacGregor business area. He will be a member of Cargotec’s Executive Board and report to President and CEO Mika Vehviläinen. Michel van Roozendaal joins from Ingers
Plexus bags POS-GRIP order from Premier
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, has received an order from Premier Oil Norge to supply its POS-GRIP wellhead system for an exploration well in the Norwegian Central North