Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given consent to Statoil Petroleum AS for the use of Statfjord B beyond its design lifetime. Statfjord is an oil field located on both sides of the demarcation line between the Norwegian and UK continental shelves in the Tampen area. The field has been developed
Norway’s Farstad Shipping, a supplier of large, modern offshore support vessels, has secured multiple charter contracts. Statoil has declared their option to extend the contracts for PSV Far Seeker (2008, UT 751E, 4.905 DWT) and PSV Far Searcher (2008, UT 751E, 4.992 DWT) for a period of 12 months.
E.ON, in close cooperation with the partners in the Pruduction Licence PL558 has completed the work program, comprising seismic re-processing and G&G studies, which has confirmed the prospectivity within the area. The partnership has therefore decided to drill an exploration well within the license,
Kongsberg Maritime Ltd has announced an investment of £2 million in the long-term lease of new purpose-built premises in Westhill, Aberdeen. The new building will include a bespoke test tank – the first of its kind in Aberdeen – and the most advanced dynamic positioning simulator on the market. The
Tritech has sold 3 Gemini 720id multibeam sonars to DPS Offshore, the subsea rental division of Forum Energy Technologies (FET), as part of a recent package worth in excess of $400K. This sale reaffirms DPS Offshore’s commitment to increase its global rental pool of equipment, placing orders locally
PGS, a Norwegian company specializing in seismic data acquisition and processing, today reported a strong EBITDA of $534.8 million for full year 2011. Total MultiClient revenues were $501.8 million, up 28% from 2010, with record late sales of $278.3 million. The company’s 2011 net income overall was
Cargotec’s MacGregor Chain Wheel Manipulator has won Offshore Support Journal’s Innovation of the Year award. The award was announced at the Annual Offshore Support Journal Conference in London on 15 February, and presented to Cargotec’s sales team for Advanced Load Handling in front of an audience
On Thursday the 16th of February, Island Offshore took delivery of its newest member of the fleet, the Island Captain. Godmother for the vessel is Mrs. Tonje Tiley from ConocoPhillips. The Island Captain’s sister vessel, the Island Centurion, was delivered in October 2011. The two vessels make out t
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted Statoil consent to use Aker Barents for plugging well 7222/11-1 in the Barents Sea. The objective of the operation is to permanently plug exploration well 7222/11-1. The well was temporarily plugged in 2008. The planned activity entails removing the
Further to the stock exchange announcement of 31st January, 2012, when Awilco Drilling PLC reported that the WilHunter rig had incurred technical downtime, the company confirms that the outstanding repair work on the rig was completed on the 31st of January. Drilling activity has not however been ab
A Norwegian offshore shipping company Oceanteam Shipping ASA has secured an extension of a bareboat charter with Fugro TS Marine Australia for the CSV Southern Ocean until end 2015. The original charter with the Fugro’s subsea services division in Australia expired end 2013. The companies did not re
Finland-based Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading gas solutions provider, has been awarded a contract to deliver an integrated propulsion system for two additional LNG offshore support vessels (OSV) to Harvey Gulf International Marine. The order, placed last week, takes Harvey Gulf to a fleet of
The multi-component seismic company Reservoir Exploration Technology ASA (RXT) has received a contract award from an international oil company for an Ocean Bottom Cable survey offshore Norway. The total survey duration is expected to be 116 days and the estimated contract value is $24.5m. The survey
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has received the go-ahead to develop Jette. Today, the Norwegian authorities approved the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of the field, which is operated by Det norske. Jette is the company’s first field development as operator. CEO Erik Haugane states that this r
