Triyards, the fabrication arm of Ezra Holdings Limited, has clinched a new US$77 million order for a specialised offshore unit, strengthening its position in the Southeast Asian offshore engineering and fabrication market. The contract also adds to TRIYARDS’ fast growing order book. Jobs in hand inc
Karoon Gas Australia, partner in Browse Basin WA-315-P which is operated by ConocoPhillips, has provided an update on the Blowout Preventer problems at Boreas-1 well. The company has reported that at 06:00 hours (WST) today, the BOP and marine riser were being pulled from seabed for repairs. Since t
Following more than a year of front end engineering and development work, Sevan Marine’s FPSO concept has been chosen by Dana Petroleum for the $1.5 billion Western Isles development project. The Western Isles project consists of two oil fields called Harris and Barra in the UK Northern North Sea an
A scheduled meeting took place Thursday 12 July between the representatives of SBM Offshore, Talisman, and their respective consultants as well as the independant certifying authority, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), at the SBM Offshore headquarters in Schiedam, The Netherlands. As planned, the meeting ad
Origin Energy Limited (Origin), as operator of the BassGas Joint Venture, today provided an update on the Yolla Mid-Life Enhancement (MLE) project. As previously advised, Phase 1 of the MLE project involves upgrading Yolla from an unmanned offshore platform to a manned platform and installing export
Dana Petroleum has entered the detailed engineering design phase on the $1.5 billion Western Isles development project in the UK North Sea. The Western Isles project will develop two discovered oil fields called Harris and Barra in the Northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands and 12km west of
Petrobras will christen platform P-59 at the São Roque do Paraguaçu yard, in Maragogipe (state of Bahia) on Friday, July 13. Scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., the christening ceremony will be attended by the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, the Governor of the state of Bahia, Jaques Wagner, and Pet
ODYE Limited has been provisionally awarded ODYE participation in two offshore exploration blocks, SL 8A-10 and SL 8B-10, in Sierra Leone. The exploration blocks were provisionally awarded and subject to negotiations by the Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone for its 3rd bid round for nine open of
Cargotec has secured a substantial new contract from Norwegian company Kleven Maritime. Delivery includes a 400-tonne MacGregor active heave-compensated offshore crane with an outreach of 15m. A second smaller crane, which will have a safe working load of 100-tonnes at 9m outreach, is also included
Offshore Ship Designers UK division OSD-IMT has been awarded a contract to supply the design for a modified version of its IMT 982 Platform Supply Vessel to be built at the new shipyard facility of Honghua Offshore Oil & Gas Equipment in Jiangsu, China. The contract is the result of increased market
The C-NLOPB has received a report from Husky Energy of a small flash fire in the vicinity of the drill floor of the ‘Henry Goodrich’ Harsh Environment Semi-Submersible rig that occurred yesterday morning. The fire was immediately extinguished using a pressure washer that was readily available on the
Australian listed petroleum exploration company, FAR Ltd has completed the data acquisition of their anticipated 3D seismic survey over some of the world’s most keenly sought petroleum exploration acreage off the coast of Kenya. FAR’s L6 permit off the Kenya coast lies in the Lamu Basin, north of re
Total today announced that it has acquired an additional 6% interest in the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project from its partner INPEX. Total’s overall equity stake in the Ichthys LNG project grows from 24% to 30%. The acquisition does not impact any of the LNG offtake agreements with the en
Talisman Energy, the operator of the Yme field and Yme MOPUstor platform which was yesterday evacuated, provided more details on the matter. “The reason why we chose to evacuate the installation was that we failed to receive a piece of documentation regarding the jack-up, and for security reasons we
