Dutch based Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has taken delivery of a new addition to their offshore fleet. VOS Ares, an “A class” anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel, was delivered from the Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. She is the fifth in a series of six vessels being built at this yard for
Ramboll Oil & Gas has just won the Tyra East Rationalisation Project. The Tyra Field is the largest gas field in the Danish sector of the North Sea. The field is operated by Maersk Oil, and production started back in 1984. Optimising production for future demand The Tyra East Rationalisation Project
Providence Resources P.l.c., today confirmed it has been offered a frontier exploration licence over six blocks in the Rathlin Basin, offshore Northern Ireland by the UK Government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC). This offer was made as part of the second tranche of awards under the U
STATS Group, a company specializing pipeline engineering, has completed an isolation project on behalf of AMEC to allow maintenance and replacement works on the North Everest platform in the central North Sea. The workscope covered three maintenance valves and one ESD valve on a 20-inch gas import l
Serica Energy plc has been offered a further two Production Licences in the final stage of the 26th Round of UK Offshore Licensing announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Block 110/8b in the East Irish Sea has been offered to Serica as operator with a 100% interest. The work commit
Grenland Group, a full-service engineering, procurement and construction company based in Norway, has been awarded a contract for two PetroFlame® burner booms for the semisubmersible drilling and intervention rig, Island Innovator. Island Innovator is owned by Marine Accurate Well ASA (Maracc), and
Apache Corporation has completed its previously announced acquisition of Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Mobil North Sea Limited assets including the Beryl field and related properties for a previously agreed amount of $ 1.75 billion. Apache has assumed operations of the Beryl, Nevis , Ness, Nevis South,
Statoil has chosen to take out an additional two-year option on the existing contract for diving services with Technip Norge AS. According to a cooperation agreement, ExxonMobil and Gassco could also be potential users of this contract. The manned underwater operations will be conducted from DSV Ska
Spectrum, a company that holds the world’s second-largest library of Multi-Client 2D marine seismic data has teamed up with CGGVeritas and GeoData Ventures, to commence a new 2D Multi-Client seismic survey covering several open acreage blocks in the Sumba Strait, Indonesia, an area that has attracte
Norway’s oil titan Statoil has completed drilling of the Skinfaks South well in the North Sea and the estimated volume is between 1.9 and 6.9 million barrels of oil equivalents. This is the fourth infrastructure-near discovery in the Gullfaks area in a 10 month period. Light oil has been confirmed i
Siem Offshore has entered into a contract with ENI Ghana for the PSV’s Siem Louisa and Sophie Siem. The term of the contracts are 100 days and 180 days with options, the contract shall commence 16th of January. The vessels are Platform Supply Vessels designed to carry out regular supply functions an
Prosafe has been awarded a 150-day contract by A/S Norske Shell using the Regalia for accommodation support at the Draugen Topside Campaign Project offshore Norway. On site operations are planned to commence late April 2013. In addition, Prosafe has granted A/S Norske Shell a 30-day option. Total va
Aquaterra has successfully installed a ‘world first’ 10,000psi rated, 20” I.D. full bore drilling riser for Apache North Sea. The unique High Pressure Riser System was designed specifically for Apache North Sea to drill three subsea wells on the Bacchus field from the Rowan Gorilla VII. The installa
Technip Norge AS have declared an option to the existing contract for the 2012-season on the OCV “NORTH SEA GIANT” and will now retain the vessel until end 2013. The vessel will be employed on a number of large subsea construction projects in the North Sea during 2012, including flex-lay duties on G
