Further to the STX OSV’s announcement about entering into a Letter of Intent with Troms Offshore Supply, STX OSV Holdings Limited today announces that it has now entered into a contract with Troms Offshore Supply for the design and construction of the Platform Supply Vessel (PSV). The vessel, of STX
Helix Energy Solutions Group announced an oil discovery at the Danny II exploration well at the Bushwood Field located in Garden Banks Block 506, approximately 145 miles offshore from Galveston, Texas. The Danny II exploration well encountered more than 70 feet of high quality net pay. Johnny Edward
Northern announces that as anticipated by Shell France on June 23rd, The Stena Drillmax ICE drillship commenced operations on the GM-ES-2, the second well on the Guyane Maritime permit on Friday 6th July. GM-ES-2 follows up on the Zaedyus oil discovery in late 2011, which encountered 72 metres of ne
Wright’s Well Control Services (WWCS) completed a riserless subsea plug & abandonment (P&A) using tubing to pull out of the hole from a Multi-Service Vessel (MSV) in 1,250’ WD in the Gulf of Mexico. DOF Subsea USA provided marine and subsea services. New tools where custom engineered specifically fo
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewables industry, announces that it has received a new contract award from Seajacks 4 Limited (“Seajacks”). The Engineering, Procurement & Construction contract,which is valu
Technip was awarded a contract by Marathon Oil Norge AS for on-going expansion of the subsea drill centres at Kneler B and Volund located in the Alvheim area in the North Sea. The water depths in the area is around 120 meters, and the subsea work will be performed by use of remotely-operated vehicul
International shipping company Vroon announced that the namegiving ceremony for VOS Thalassa took place on Saturday 14 July 2012, in Ancona, Italy. VOS Thalassa was christened by Mrs Maria Rosaria Dionisi, wife of Mr Bruno Dionisi, Director, Vroon Offshore Services Genova. VOS Thalassa is a 1,400 dw
Simek shipyard on July 12th 2012, successfully delivered the Platform Supply Vessel C-VIKING (Yard no. NB 126) to Duh Boats 2 Partnership C.V. ( Edison Chouest Offshore). The ship will depart Simek yard in a few days time. PSV C-VIKING of UT 755 LC is a development of the popular UT 755 series, desi
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, and Tidewater, a leading provider of marine support services for the offshore energy industry markets, both view gas fuelled marine engines as being a logical means for ship owners and operators to comply with increasingly stri
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded two projects for Saudi Aramco in the Arabian Gulf in the Karan, Safaniya and Zuluf fields. The values of these contracts are included in McDermott’s second quarter 2012 backlog. The first project, Karan-45, c
Drilling operations at the Jaguar-1 well in the Georgetown Block, Guyana, have ended and the well will be plugged and abandoned at a depth of 4,876 metres, without reaching the primary objective. The decision to stop drilling at this point was unanimously agreed by all partners based on safety crite
Borders & Southern reports results from its Stebbing well. Well 61/25-1 was drilled to a total measured depth of 3060m (true vertical depth of 3011m). The well penetrated the upper Tertiary target on prognosis but was unable to reach lower targets due to anomalous pressure conditions. The lower targ
Ocean Riser Systems (ORS) has joined forces with Enhanced Drilling Solutions (EDS), a division of AGR Group (AGR), to form AGR EDS-ORS. The announcement was made on the Oslo Stock Exchange this morning that AGR has signed an agreement to purchase 100% of the shares in ORS, which has ‘developed techn
Aker Solutions has signed a contract with McDermott, the main EPCI contractor for the Ichthys gas-condensate field development subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) project, for INPEX in Australia. The contract value is approximately NOK 440 million. The scope of work includes the engineering, pr
