Fossil Energy
HOS Riverband OSV delivered to Hornbeck Offshore
Eastern Shipbuilding has delivered HOS Riverband OSV to Hornbeck Offshore. The delivery of the vessel took place in Eastern Shipbuilding’s yard in Panama City, Florida, on Monday, February 3. The HOS Riverband OSV is Eastern’s fourth and final HOSMAX 300 vessel delivered to Hornbeck Offshore. The 98
Armada Claire FPSO sailing towards Balnaves field in Australia
Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard on Saturday held a sail away ceremony for the Armada Claire floating production and offloading unit, Malaysia’s The Sun Daily has reported. The 240 meters long FPSO is now on its way to the Apache-operated Balnaves offshore oil field, located 180 kilometers off the coast
Coastal Contracts to supply $372M jack-up unit for Pemex
Coastal Contracts Bhd’s subsidiary, Thaumas Marine Ltd (“TM”) has secured a charter contract to provide a self-elevated jack-up unit with gas compression capabilities for Mexico’s Pemex. Malaysia’s Thaumas Marine Ltd has secured a charter contract valued RM1.24 billion ($372 million) from a group of
Remontowa Shipbuilding delivers PSV GEMSBOK
Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A., a Polish shipyard, has launched a newly built Platform Supply Vessel. The shipyard held a christening ceremony for the PSV on Wednesday, the 5th of February 2014. The vessel, sixth in a series of similar ships, was named GEMSBOK. Remontowa Shipbuilding started the constr
Cochin Shipyard delivers PSV to Liberian client
India’s Cochin Shipyard Limited has delivered a platform supply vessel “Sea Tortuga” to M/s. PSV Holding Inc. Liberia. “Sea Tortuga” is third in a series of four vessels that are being built for the same client. The vessels are of the PSV 05L CD type, and were designed by Vard Group AS, Norway. This
Bulgaria: South Stream EIA approved
The Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water published the approval of the investment proposal for the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. This follows the Supreme Expert Environmental Council’s positive decision on the Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIA Report) of the South Stream Offshore
AWE spuds Pateke-4H well, offshore New Zealand
AWE has started drilling operation at its first of two wells in PMP 38158, located in the offshore Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. The Pateke-4H development well started drilling at 10.45 hours (10.45am NZDT) on Sunday, 9 February 2014. As at 06:00 hours (6.00am NZDT) today, operations had drilled a 36
Trelleborg wins first DRBM order from Hyundai Heavy
Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded its first order for drill riser buoyancy modules (DRBM) and riser protection by engineering, procurement, construction and installation contractor, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea. For Trelleborg, a major supplier of offshore buoyancy equipmen
‘Go Pegasus’ AHTS wins work in North Sea
Singapore’s Otto Marine Limited has secured a charter contract for its 24,000 bhp AHTS vessel, Go Pegasus worth approximately US$40 million including options. The AHTS Go Pegasus will soon be mobilized and deployed to the North Sea where it will work for the summer season before starting its term co
GDF Suez produces first oil from new platform in Dutch North Sea
GDF SUEZ has started oil production at the Amstel field from its newly installed Q13a-A production platform off the Dutch coast. After the acquisition of 50% into the Q13a offshore production licence in 2010, GDF SUEZ Dutch Exploration and Production affiliate – GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V., the firs
Global Petroleum step closer to four permits off Italy
Global Petroleum Limited has informed on the significant progress made of its four applications for new acreage offshore Italy. Over the course of the past year, the Board has reviewed a number of prospective areas within and around the central and southern areas of the Italian Adriatic Sea resultin
Antrim selling subsidiary for $54 Million (UK)
Antrim Energy is seeling its subsidiary to First Oil Expro Limited to raise the cash needed for the Causeway field development in the North Sea.
Drydocks, OIM to finalize rig construction contract in March
Drydocks World, the UAE-based provider of maritime and offshore services to the shipping, oil, gas and energy sectors, held its first joint workshop on January 21-22, 2014, which was organized following the recent signing of Letter of Intent (LOI) with Offshore Innovation Management Ltd., to build a
Bourbon orders Arctic AHTS from VARD
Vard Holdings Limited (“VARD”) has secured a contract with BOURBON, for the design and construction of one arctic Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessel (AHTS). The arctic AHTS vessel is designed by Vard Design, developed for world-wide anchor handling and remote operations, with a total length of 93.6 m