On 17 June 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) granted an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) to the Rowan Stavanger mobile living quarters and drilling facility, operated by Rowan Drilling Norway AS (Rowan Drilling). This AoC only applies for use as a living quarters facility. The AoC
Elko announced on May 4, 2011, that the Luna well will be drilled by the ‘Maersk Resolve’ jack up drilling unit. The rig had been secured by Noreco, the license operator, under a letter of intent. At that date the rig was expected to be available for Luna in mid August 2011 but this date […]
Havila Shipping has been awarded a Charter Party Contract by Statoil for a large PSV vessel for a fixed period of five years with three optional periods each of one year. Havila Shipping gave no details about the price of the Charter Party. The charter shall commence during December 2012 and in orde
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won a $24 million order to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for two next generation ‘Ramform’ vessels, capable of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data acquisition for sea bottom resource exploration. The ships will be cons
E. ON Ruhrgas Norge AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 31/8-1 in the northern part of the North Sea with the Borgland Dolphin mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 416, approx. 75 kilometres west of Bergen and 16 kilometres southwest of the Tr
Last week FAIRMOUNT SHERPA towed jack-up rig ROWAN STAVANGER to her new drilling location offshore Norway. FAIRMOUNT SHERPA was assigned to tow the rig from Hinna Base in Stavanger to the YME Oil-field, approximately 120nm offshore Norway. Upon arrival in the field Fairmount Sherpa had to carry out
EOG Resources United Kingdom Limited, a subsidiary of EOG Resources, Inc., has signed a contract with Seafox Contractors for the use of accommodation and multi-support jack-up Seafox 1 at the Conwy field in the East Irish Sea. Seafox Contractors will provide EOG with one of her jack-ups to assist wi
The Board of Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) announced that Mr Einar Gjelsvik has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Einar Gjelsvik (38) has been with Noreco since 2006, and has served as Acting CEO for the last three months. He has previously held positions as Chi
Deep Sea Metro Ltd. has today taken delivery of the drillship Deepsea Metro I from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). Chairman of Odfjell Offshore Ltd. Simen Lieungh states: “Delivery has been according to plan. The collaboration with the yard has been excellent and we acknowledge their great effort. W
Spectrum has completed the reprocessing of approximately 9,000kms of regional 2D seismic data from the Italian sector of the Adriatic Sea on a Multi Client basis. The original surveys were acquired by the Italian government as part of a study to highlight the hydrocarbon potential of the Adriatic Se
Repsol Chairman, Antonio Brufau, was granted the 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Federation of Spanish Chambers of Commerce in Europe (FEDECOM). He received the award from the Secretary General for Trade, Alfredo Bonet. In its first edition this year, the award rewards the efforts of empl
Farstad Shipping ASA has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, reached an agreement with STX OSV AS to build 2 Anchor Handling / Offshore Service vessels (AHTS) of the type UT 731 CD. Contract value is approx. NOK 1.2 billion. The vessels are designed by Rolls Royce Marine with a t
Sartor Offshore announced today that Ocean Flower vessel has been sold to new owners. The company gave no details about the price or the client involved in the transaction. Ocean Flower is a Rescue/Standby vessel. The vessel, formerly “Normand Flower”, was built in 1974 at Volharding Shipyard Waterh
Mechanical engineering specialist, EnerMech, has been awarded a number of contracts “worth a substantial sum” to provide pipeline pre-commissioning services by Subsea 7. Two awards are for Dutch sector projects where the workscope includes pre-trench flooding, cleaning and gauge pigging, high speed
