Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) have taken delivery of a new addition to their offshore fleet. The VOS Achilles, an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel built at the Fujian Shipyard in China, was delivered today, 25 January 2011, in China. She is the first in a series of eight “A-types” that will
CGGVeritas announced today that it has signed a term sheet with PT Elnusa Tbk (Elnusa) to create a 2D/3D marine joint venture to carry out 2D and 3D marine seismic surveys, in Asia Pacific Region, with main focus in Indonesia. The joint venture will provide marine seismic data acquisition services f
MirTac has successfully completed the implementation of asset management system Star IPS at Seatec. MirTac supports Seatec in her maintenance, safety and audit operations for her diving and ROV projects. Johan de Bie, General Manager at Seatec: ‘With Star IPS, all condition based and preventive main
A consortium, including LUKOIL Overseas (a 100% subsidiary of OAO LUKOIL) and Vanco International signed concession agreements with the National Agency for Mineral Resources of Romania. The agreements provide for exploration and development of two blocks, Est Rapsodia and Trident, in the Romanian se
Venture Drilling AS (“VDAS”), a joint venture between Petrolia ASA and Sinvest AS (50/50), has entered into an agreement for early redelivery of the drillship Deep Venture aka Valentin Shashin being on bareboat from its Russian owner Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka (Arktik). Through the settlement, Valent
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy today received Plans for Development and Operation (PDO) on the Ekofisk and Eldfisk fields. The projects (Ekofisk South and Eldfisk II) will entail investments in the region of NOK 65 billion(USD 11.58 billion). -I am happy to recieve new PDOs in the Ek
Dockwise Ltd., a world leader in heavy marine transport, today publishes results for the three month period and full year ended 31 December 2010. After a tough year, Q4 was a quarter of healthy performance. The quarter saw the successful completion of the offshore Transport & Installation project Vy
Statoil picks up the pace towards realizing fast track field developments offshore Norway. A contract signed recently with Technip for marine operations and pipelay on the Gygrid field development in the Norwegian Sea is proof. “This agreement moves us one step closer to realising Gygrid, planned to
Statoil and Odfjell Drilling have signed the contract for «Deepsea Bergen» commencing in June 2012. Odfjell Drilling was awarded a Letter of Intent from Statoil in October last year for the utilization of «Deepsea Bergen» for development drilling on the NCS. The contract is now signed. Duration, val
Northern Offshore, Ltd. today reported that its subsidiary, Northern Offshore U.K. Limited, was awarded a contract with Maersk Olie og Gas AS (“Maersk”), for the jackup Energy Endeavour. The award is subject to approval by the Danish Energy Authority. The contract, for operations in the Danish Secto
CGGVeritas and JSC Geotech Holding (Geotech) announce, that today they have signed a term sheet to create a joint venture to operate 2D and 3D marine seismic vessels, primarily in Russian and CIS waters. The joint venture will provide marine seismic data acquisition and processing services for the o
The Norwegian Trade Minister Trond Giske visited Brazil last week, where the purpose of his visit is strengthening the business relations between Norway and Brazil. Giske also visited Havyard South America Ltda`s office in Rio de Janeiro during the same trip. General Manager Kjell-Peder Overvåg of H
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract from Centrica Energy Upstream for the flowlines and subsea works on the Ensign Project, approximately 18km North West of the Audrey ‘A’ platform, located over Block 48/14 and 48/15 of the
On February 22, during a working visit to London, Mr. Rovnag Abdullayev, SOCAR President met with Mr. Robert Dudley, BP President at Company’s Head office. The meeting was attended by Mr. Rashid Javanshir, President of BP-Azerbaijan and other high-ranking officials of BP. The meeting covered the dis
