Transocean Ltd. ,one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, today announced that the Board of Directors is recommending that the company’s shareholders approve at the 2011 Annual General Meeting the election of Steve Lucas as a Class III Director for a three-year term. Mr. Lucas is th
EnCore Oil plc announce that the Burgman exploration well 28/9-4 in Central North Sea Block 28/9 was spudded at 05.30 hours on Tuesday 1 March 2011. The EnCore operated well is being drilled using the Transocean Galaxy II heavy duty jack-up rig and is being managed by Applied Drilling Technology Int
Fairmount Marine’s powerful tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Summit have delivered FPSO Skarv Idun in the port of Stord, Norway. The two tugs needed just 92 days for the long distance tow of about 15.300 nautical miles from Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. The towage was e
Cosalt Offshore, a provider of lifting, tooling and marine services to the oil and gas industry, is to provide inspection services to Shell at two UK onshore gas processing plants. The three-year contract will involve Cosalt Offshore carrying out inspection and test activities on the sites at St Fer
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/3-4, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/3-4 is to be drilled from the drilling facility Bredford Dolphin(image) located at position 58° 48’ 14.5” north 02° 43’ 08.5” east after t
Today at 08:18, a helicopter flying between the Maersk Oil operated Gorm and Rolf Field observed oil on the water. Oil production from the Rolf platform was immediately stopped. Maersk Oil has activated its oil spill contingency plan, including 2 x 1,200 metre floating boom barriers which are being
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Klaus Rud Sejling, Vice President of A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. The parties addressed the opportunities for cooperation deepening to ensure year-round well d
Statoil has declared the second of three one year options for each of the AHTS vessels Havila Mars and Havila Mercury and the first of two one year options for the RRV vessel Havila Runde. The agreed rates for the optional periods are according to current market level. The firm period for Havila Mar
Effective from today, Sevan intends to report the Technical Uptime for the fleet in operation on a monthly basis. Technical Uptime for the months of January and February 2011 were as follows: January (%) February (%) FPSO Sevan Piranema 100 100 FPSO Sevan Hummingbird 100 100 Sevan Driller 78 97
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted BG Norge a drilling permit for well 6604/2-1 cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6604/2-1 will be drilled from the Aker Barents drilling facility at position 66°47’1.791” north and 4°33’34.85”east after completing the drilling of
Reef Subsea is awarded four-year frame agreement contract by Technip for subsea construction operations in the North Sea and North Atlantic This frame agreement will allow Technocean AS, a subsidiary of Reef Subsea AS, to act as a partner to Technip Norway and other Technip Group companies for subse
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has initiated an investigation following an incident in connection with a lifting operation on the Gullfaks A facility on 28 February 2011. One person was injured when he was crushed between two containers in connection with a lifting operation on the Gull
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EMAS AMC has won yet another major contract, from one of the world’s premier energy companies, Statoil. The EPIC project with Statoil, an internationally renowned energy company, is worth approximately US$41 million and will involve EMAS AMC supplying and installing 55km of power cables along with a
