His Excellency Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Drydocks World & Maritime World received the Award for Excellence in Shipyard Management for Offshore Services at the First International Marine Club (IMC) Golden Helm Excellence Awards (2014)-Middle East for making outstanding contributions to the sect
Petrobras to exclude SBM Offshore from FPSO bidding World’s largest FPSO supplier could miss out on Libra and Tartaruga Verde bidding in Brazil. Greenpeace vessel blocks Statoil’s rig from reaching drill site The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is blocking the arrival of Statoil’s Transocean Spitsbergen o
Japan’s JOGMEC will provide equity financing to JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Qatar) Limited for exploration project offshore Qatar.
The search process to appoint the company’s new CFO has started.
Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecasts global subsea hardware Capex will total $117 billion (bn) between 2014 and 2018 in its 4th edition of the World Subsea Hardware Market Forecast. This represents growth of more than 80% compared with the preceding five-year period. In 2013, subsea tree installations we
SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev has received the Malaysian delegation led by Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas, President of PETRONAS, on 27 May. Welcoming the guests, SOCAR President expressed confidence that the visit of PETRONAS delegation to Azerbaijan would play an important role in the development
Gulf Drilling International (“GDI”) and Occidental Petroleum of Qatar (“Oxy”) have jointly announced that the jack-up drilling rig “Msheireb”, which was acquired by GDI earlier this year and refurbished, has been accepted by Oxy for drilling operations. “Msheireb” will be the third GDI rig currently
The Caspian Technical Training Centre (CTTC) in Sangachal has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its successful operation. The centre was opened in May 2004 by BP and its partners in Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, Shah Deniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and South Caucasus Pipeline projects.
Clearwater Capital Partners, through an entity wholly owned by private investment funds managed by Clearwater, has completed the sale of a Keppel FELS B Class jack-up rig with hull number B351 to Arabian Drilling Company (“ADC”). Mohamed Yusof Al-Rafie, Chairman of Arabian Drilling Company said, “We
UAE’s Eversendai Offshore RMC FZE, has been awarded contracts for the construction of 2 GustoMSC NG-2500X liftboats at a combined value of RM580 million ($180 million) from Vahana Offshore (S) Pte. Ltd.
Gulf Marine Services, a supplier of self-propelled self-elevating support vessels (SESV) serving the offshore oil, gas and renewable energy sectors, today announces a new contract award for one of its Small Class vessels. The vessel, a K-Class SESV, will commence the new 12-month charter (six mont
Lamprell has received a new contract award from a subsidiary of Shelf Drilling, Ltd., for the construction and delivery of two high specification, LeTourneau-designed, self-elevating Mobile Offshore Drilling Platforms of a Super 116E (Enhanced) Class. The two jack-up rigs, designed through collabora
KS Energy has received a contract extension for its jack-up drilling rig in Egypt.
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