Xcite Energy announces that, following the spudding of the Bentley 9/3b-7 well on 18 March 2012 with the Rowan Norway jack-up drilling rig, good progress has been made in drilling the 36″ hole and setting the 30″ conductor pipe. The 26″ hole has been directionally drilled and the 20″ surface casing
Songa Offshore, a Cyprus-based international offshore drilling company operating a fleet of 6 semi-submersible rigs with an additional 4 on order, has provided its fleet status update for March 2012: Songa Venus achieved an operating efficiency of 100% during the month. The rig continues to operate
French oil giant Total, which has been fighting to stop a natural gas leak at its Elgin Field,located in the UK North Sea approximately 240 km east of Aberdeen, yesterday announced that the flare on the Elgin platform extinguished itself. „We received the first indication that the flare may be out a
Kleven Maritime delivered the LNG powered offshore supply vessel Viking Prince to Eidesvik Offshore on Friday, 30 March. ‘It is a great pleasure to deliver this advanced, environmentally friendly vessel to a ship owner that has a proven track record of taking every aspect of their environmental foot
Damen Shipyards is the new operator of French shiprepair yard Sobrena. The yard will be renamed Damen Shiprepair Brest and will continue to serve the maritime and offshore industries with shiprepair and conversion services. The yard has three drydocks (up to 420 x 80 m) and will be available for rep
Recently, BOW Terminal in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, has invested in the largest fixed heavy lift crane of Europe (Gottwald MK 1500 crane), with 1200 tons lifting capacity. The availability of this permanent heavy lift capacity makes this terminal a perfect location for offshore (wind) and heavy l
Aker Solutions has successfully completed the manufacturing and subsequent load-out of eight subsea manifolds and six riser bases for Eni Norge’s Goliat project in the Barents Sea. On Tuesday 27 March the load-out commenced. This weekend, the heavy lift vessel Happy Dragon will sail away with her gi
UK’s Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has secured a £50 million order to design and equip two advanced offshore anchor handling vessels for Norwegian ship owner Farstad Shipping. The UT 731 CD vessels are designed and equipped to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow rigs to location and al
BP has decided to extend the maintenance and modification contract with Aker Solutions, exercising an option in the existing agreement for the Ula, Valhall, Skarv, Hod and Tambar fields. Work under the extended contract will last until April 2014, and the contract value is estimated to be in the ran
An Australian based oil and gas exploration and production company, AWE Limited, has completed the sale of 11.25% interest in T/L1 and a 2.75% interest in T/18P in the Bass Basin to Toyota Tsusho Gas E&P Trefoil Pty Ltd (“Toyota Tsusho”). Accordingly, AWE has received the cash consideration of $80.1
After it today announced the decision to sell 50% in one of its CSV vessels to Subsea 7, Norway’s offshore shipping company, Solstad Offshore ASA, has more news to offer. The company has secured a charter contract for its offshore construction vessel (CSV) “Normand Mermaid” with Ocean Installer AS,
Farstad Shipping ASA has reached an agreement with STX OSV AS to build two Anchor Handling / Offshore Service vessels (AHTS) of the type UT 731 CD. Contract value is estimated at approximately NOK 1.2 billion (USD 209 million). The vessels are designed by Rolls Royce Marine with a total length of 87
Lotos Petrobaltic, an oil company that has an exclusive concession for the exploration and production of hydrocarbon fields in the Polish Offshore Economic Zone, has called for bids for service works on its jack-up platform. The contract is for service works on Baltic Beta jack-up platform to streng
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF), a Norway-based shipping company focused primarily on offshore oil & gas industry, has entered into an agreement with Subsea 7, under which Subsea 7 will acquire 50% of the CSV “Normand Oceanic” through purchase of shares in a single purpose company to be incorporated. “N
