Fossil Energy
Kleven takes over construction of Volstad’s OCVs
The vessels will be delivered from Kleven’s Myklebust Verft in December 2014 and Q2 2015.
Baker Hughes: Offshore rig count up by 16 in February
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced today that the international rig count for February 2014 was 1,341, up 16 from the 1,325 counted in January 2014, and up 66 from the 1,275 counted in February 2013. The international offshore rig count for February 2014 was 318, up 16 from the 302 counted in Janua
NDM to deliver deck machinery to VARD Søviknes
NDM has announced the signing of a new contract with VARD Søviknes for delivery of deck machinery. The new contract is for the supply of a winch package to their NB 801, a Diving Support and Construction Vessel beeing built for Harkand Group. The vessel is of VARD 3 03 design, specially designed and
Bergen Group sells shipbuilding business. Puts focus on offshore projects
Bergen Group has decided to accelerate the process of reducing the Group’s future involvement in the shipbuilding business in favor of a more dedicated focus on offshore related activities. As a part of this process, Bergen Group has entered into an agreement of selling two of the remaining shipbuil
Heerema starts construction of Marathon Oil’s Alba Platform
The Alba B3 compression platform will consist of a 4,500 ton topside and a 4-legged 2,000 ton jacket.
Ireland seeks Wood Mackenzie advice on current oil and gas fiscal terms
Ireland’s Department for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, following a public procurement process, selected international oil and gas experts Wood Mackenzie to advise on the “fitness-for-purpose” of Ireland’s current oil and gas fiscal terms. Minister for Communications, Energy, and Natu
Petroleum Safety Authority in Goliat FPSO Audit (Norway)
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of materials handling on the Goliat FPSO. The objective of the audit was to verify the company’s management of technical, operational and administrative aspects of materials handling on the Goliath FPSO, and measure this against the company’
Statoil gets green light to use ‘Bideford Dolphin’ rig
Bideford Dolphin is a semi-submersible Aker H-3 drilling facility built in 1975 and operated by Dolphin AS.
LOC names Dr Robin Bidwell CBE as Group chairman
LOC, independent marine and engineering consultancy and survey organisation, appointed Dr Robin Bidwell, CBE as non-executive chairman. Bidwell was the founding partner of the global environmental advisory firm ERM. “His long experience there as Chief Executive and latterly as non-executive chairman
Taqa resumes production from Harding platform
Taqa has resumed production from its Harding platform in the North Sea, following the last week’s incident in which one worker died. In a statement issued Tuesday, Taqa said: “TAQA can confirm that production has now been restarted at the TAQA-operated Harding platform, located 320 kilometres north-
IHPC, SMMI open Maritime and Offshore Engineering R&D laboratory
A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) officially launched a joint laboratory in Maritime and Offshore Engineering R&D yesterday, to develop innovative technological solutions through modelling and simulation using high perfor
Iceland’s first PSV launched in Turkey
Turkish Cemre Shipyard has launched a hull of a new platform supply vessel being built for of Fafnir Offshore, an Icelandic oil service company.
Seaway Heavy Lifting equips ‘Stanislav Yudin’ with OCTOPUS-Onboard
The Dutch offshore contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting has ordered Amarcon’s OCTOPUS-Onboard decision support technology for her monohull crane vessel Stanislav Yudin. This order is the second OCTOPUS-Onboard installation for Seaway Heavy Lifting. In 2011 the Oleg Strashnov was equipped with Amarcon’s m
Aqua-Guard supplies oil skimming systems for Damen OSRVs
Aqua-Guard has signed a contract with Damen Shipyards of Gorinchem, The Netherlands for the supply of two large URO 300Z1 offshore oil skimming systems. Damen Shipyards are currently building two Oil Spill Response Vessels (OSRV’s class 1050) for the end customer GeoNavegação of Rio de Janeiro, Braz