EnCore Oil plc announces that the Transocean Galaxy II heavy duty jack-up rig left Dundee Harbour yesterday afternoon to move to a standby location in the UK North Sea. As soon as a weather window becomes available, the rig will be moved to the Varadero location on Block 28/9. EnCore Oil plc is an o
Bergen Group Dreggen been awarded contracts for the production of a total of six cranes with a total value of NOK 40 million (USD $ 6.7 Million). Deliveries will be carried out during the period 4 quarter 2011 to 2nd quarter of 2013. The contracts are with customers in Korea, Singapore and Holland.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 15/6-12, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 15/6-12 will be drilled from the Transocean Leader drilling facility at position 58º 37’ 48.53” North 01º 44’ 15.47” East after the rig
After leasing Amarcon’s Portable Surveyor Box for several weeks, Smit Heavy Lift Europe B.V. decided to purchase OCTOPUS-Onboard for the installation on her Smit Taklift 4 vessel. Where the Portable Surveyor Box is used to monitor and advice in one-time-only projects, OCTOPUS-Onboard is a permanent
An oil spill from a deepwater blowout near the Shetland Islands could reach the coastlines of Scotland, eastern England, Norway and Greenland, according to a company which began drilling there in October. Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil companies, made a worst-case forecast of the impact cau
The maritime industrial group Bergen Group has entered into an agreement with EDB ErgoGroup for the provision of IT operating and management services for the group’s core IT solutions. The agreement runs for three years, and represents total contract value of approximately NOK 33 million (approximat
Statoil has awarded Aibel a contract for modifications on the Gullfaks C platform. The modifications are to be undertaken in order to connect the Pan/Pandora satellite field to the processing facilities on Gullfaks C. This is the first of a number of fast-track projects that Statoil plans to underta
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 16/1-15, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 16/1-15 will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility at position 58° 52’ 24” North 02° 15’ 41” East after the r
GSP Saturn entered under a new contract with Energean Oil & Gas S.A., the only operator of Oil and Gas in Greece. Energean is operating the development of Prinos and South Kavala areas, where it holds a 100% interest. The mobile offshore drilling unit has successfully reached the drilling location,
Aquatic, an Acteon company and a leading independent operator of powered-reel and tensioner systems for the global oil and gas industry, announced that it has added a new 50-tonne tensioner, the AQTT-10C-50, to its extensive range of equipment which has already begun operations. This project, anothe
RWE Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 420, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-6 S. The well has been drilled about 16 km west of the Gjøa field. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle Jurassic (t
Declared Norway’s Ship of the Year 2010 by Rikke Linde, Minister for Trade & Industry, at the recent SMM trade show in Hamburg last September, DOFCON ASA’s subsea service vessel, Skandi Aker, features a SAM Electronics’ NACOS 35-5 integrated navigation command system supplied by SAM’s associate L-3
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that drilling of exploration well 16/7-9 on the Norall prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL409 in the Norwegian North Sea. PL409 is located east of the Sleipner East Field in Block 16/7 in the North Sea. The well will target the J
Russia’s fifth biggest oil company, Gazprom Neft, is preparing bids for four big fields in the Pechora Sea and the Kara Sea, the company … By Atle Staalesen /TheBarentsObserver/ [mappress] Source: Barentsobserver, December 6, 2010;Image:Gazprom
