Shell, an international oil & gas giant, recently released a video game for iOS and Android in which a player is given an opportunity to explore Norway’s Ormen Lange field. The name of the game is Pipe Rider. Description: “Fast paced racing in gas pipelines! You are 1000 meters below sea level at th
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Asia Offshore Drilling’s first rig was delivered to the company on Thursday, January 31, 2012. The rig named AOD I, built at Keppel Fels shipyard in Singapore, was delivered on time and within budget. AOD I will now move to the Persian Gulf where it will work for Saudi Aramco. The contract is expect
The Ferguson Group, specialists in the rental of equipment to the offshore energy industry, has announced the launch of its new Ferguson Middle East Abu Dhabi division. Ferguson Middle East LLC, based in Abu Dhabi, will support the Ferguson Group’s increasing presence in the Middle East that saw the
Iranian company Pars Oil & Gas is working to recover a platform jacket that sunk on Tuesday in the Persian Gulf. Mehr reported that the jacket, which was being installed to support a natural gas platform, as a part of phase 13 of South Pars Project, plunged to a depth of 80 metres. Bad weather [&hel
Tugs Fairmount Summit and Fairmount Alpine have delivered the new build Noble Tamar jacket at location in the Tamar gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Israel. Both tugs towed the barge on which the jacket was loaded from the US to the field South-East of Cyprus. The 18,500 ton
Gulf Marine Services has secured a 5-year contract by ADMA OPCO for one of its vessels. Self-propelled self-elevating jackup barge Keloa will commence operations during February 2013 in support of offshore maintenance campaigns in UAE waters. The value of the contract was not disclosed. The UAE-base
Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited (“Mermaid”) announced that its business units Mermaid Offshore Services Limited (“MOS”) and Subtech Qatar Diving and Marine Services LLC (“Subtech”) have been awarded a series of contracts from existing clients for the provision of subsea services to support o
An independent offshore survey company UTEC has consolidated its presence in the Middle East and has completed another significant contract for a major international pipelay contractor. This is the second year in succession that UTEC has provided support to the contractor in the region. The UAE (Dub
Top News of the Week of Jan 19 – 26, 2013
Check out this video in which Harris Pye installs new ROV deck on Seadrill’s semi submersible rig West Aquarius. Harris Pye is a rapidly expanding global organisation specialising in the provision of repairs, upgrades and conversions to the marine, offshore oil and gas and associated onshore industr
Check out this video showing offshore workers on Pertamina’s platform in ONWJ block, located Offshore Northwest Java, Indonesia. The workers are dancing on a helicopter deck to the beats of the globally popular Gangnam Style song, originally performed by South Korea’s rapper Park Jae-sang, better kn
Qatar’s Barzan offshore project is expected to be commissioned next year, The Peninsula has reported, quoting a statement made by the Qatari energy minister Mohammed Al-Sada. During the “Offshore Middle East 2013” event held in Doha this week, Al-Sada said:“For the development of offshore gas we are
According to the public relations of an Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company, a senior oil official said that the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) plans to develop gas layers of Balal offshore oil field in southern Iran. Alireza Ghazi-Zahedi, deputy director of the company’s Lava
