As scheduled, April 23, 2011, Vyksa Steel Works (VSW, Nizhni Novgorod Region), part of United Metallurgical Company (OMK), completed its deliveries of large-diameter pipes (LDP) for the construction of Phase 2 of the international gas pipeline Nord Stream. From May 2010 to April 2011, more than 200
Statoil ASA has declared all remaining 3 years options for the Ocean King. The firm period is now until 2nd July 2014. Ocean King is relocated to the Norne field with Sandnessjøen as base and Crew change port. “Statoil’s declaration shows that vessel and Crew have served Statoil in an excellent mann
Bergen Group Dreggen AS, a subsidiary of Bergen Group ASA, has been awarded a new contract for the delivery of two deck cranes units with 35T lifting capacity and a smaller provisions deck crane to a European customer. The total order value is NOK 15 million, and the delivery is expected to be compl
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces today that it has signed an Earn In agreement with Challenger Minerals (North Sea) Limited (“CMI”) on the Hurricane discovery (“Hurricane”) in Block 29/10b, within the Ithaca operated Greater Stella Development Area. Hurricane was discovered in 1995 by well 29/10-4Z whic
Statoil has received consent to conduct exploration drilling of well 16/7-10 in the central part of the North Sea using the mobile facility Ocean Vanguard. The well will be drilled in production licence 569, approx. 17 kilometres northeast of Sleipner. The well coordinates are N 58° 29′ 56.56″, E 02
Awilco Drilling Plc has signed a drilling contract with MPX North Sea Ltd for 1 firm well and 1 optional well, representing the second and third well of the SPD multi-client, multi-well 2011 drilling programme. The contract value for the firm part is approximately USD 11 million. The contract is exp
Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced the award of a contract for two ROV systems from specialist subsea service company DOF Subsea. The award is for one (1) 200hp UHD™ ROV system and one (1) 150hp HD™ ROV system. Deliveries of the ROVs are scheduled to commence in the third
Polarcus Limited has received a Letter of Intent from Wintershall Norge ASA for a 500 square kilometer 3D seismic acquisition project over PL577 in the Norwegian North Sea, offshore Norway. The project, subject to the execution of a service contract, will be acquired during the 2011 summer season an
Production on the Njord platform was shut down on April 24 as a result of operational problems with gaskets in a gas export compressor. Later the same day, during work to resume production, a gas leak was discovered in one of the risers. All production on Njord was immediately shut down and will rem
Police have charged the skipper of a boat who was arrested on Saturday while protesting against oil exploration off the East Cape of the … Copyright © 2011, Radio New Zealand [mappress] Source: Radio New Zealand, April 25,2011;
Eurocopter’s 1,000th helicopter from its Dauphin family was delivered recently to India’s Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited, the world’s largest civilian operator of this successful twin-engine, medium weight rotary-wing aircraft. Pawan Hans’ milestone helicopter is an AS365 N3 version, configured for
The oil and gas majors are looking to the promise of the Barents Sea, attracted by Norway’s political stability against a backdrop of … By Pierre-Henry Deshayes (zawya) [mappress] Source: zawya, April 24, 2011;
On April 21, 2011 Dmitry Dmitrienko, Governor of Murmansk Region, and Aleksey Zagorovskiy, Chief Executive Officer of Shtokman Development AG, held a meeting dedicated to the interaction between the Regional Government and the Company in the frameworks of the Integrated Shtokman Gas and Condensate F
Siemens AG and its employees have demonstrated their profound concern for the victims of the natural disaster in Japan. The company’s international fundraising campaign has collected €4 million in monetary donations to support those affected by the earthquake and its aftermath. Employees from 45 cou
