Semco Maritime is as busy as ever with rig upgrades. In the spring and summer, six jack-up rigs from the North Sea will be extensively upgraded at the company’s new rig facilities in the Port of Esbjerg. The company expects the turnover for rig projects to reach 500 million Danish kroner globally th
International oil service group Aker Solutions continues its investments in Asia Pacific with a brand new lifecycle services workshop in Songkhla, in the Gulf of Thailand. Recently, Aker Solutions announced several investments in Malaysia including a new umbilical and a subsea service base, in addit
The seismic vessel Polarcus Amani, designed and constructed by ULSTEIN, is one out of three vessels nominated for Ship of the Year 2012. The ship was delivered in March this year, while her sister vessel will be delivered later this month. “To be nominated, the ship must be delivered during 2012, bu
Kreuz Holdings Limited, a subsea service provider for the oil and gas industry, today announced that it has secured a string of contracts worth approximately US$142 million from the Swiber Group for subsea installation works, and a third-party client for the provision of Remotely Operated Vehicle (“
Offshore handling equipment specialist, Caley Ocean Systems is taking part in a Joint Industry Project (JIP) into the Requirements for Certification of fibre rope-based, Deepwater Installation Systems that will ultimately be incorporated in a new standard for Offshore Deployment and Recovery Systems
Xcite Energy announces that it has amended its agreement with BP Oil International Limited (“BPOI”), a wholly owned subsidiary of BP plc (“BP”), as announced on 28 January 2010, under which BPOI will provide the offtake services to market and sell the Bentley crude oil in return for an incentive-bas
Malaysian media have reported that five Petronas’ offshore workers have been injured in an explosion that occurred yesterday morning on a platform located offshore Sarawak, Malaysia. The fire broke out yesterday at 9:20 (local time) on Petronas Tukau B drilling platform and spread very quickly, one
Lundin Petroleum AB has received final approval for the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Edvard Grieg field (previously known as Luno) from the Norwegian Parliament. The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy concurred with the field development plan in April 2012. The Edvard Gri
Brazil’s state controlled oil company Petrobras reports that average combined domestic and foreign oil and natural gas output in April reached 2,551,951 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed). The figure for domestic fields alone was 2,305,378 boed, while foreign fields produced 246,573 boed. Tota
Babcock has successfully completed the first phase of a contract awarded by Shell, to integrate a novel self-stabilising gangway system onboard the subsea construction vessel MV Island Enforcer, providing pedestrian access for workers from vessel to offshore platform as required. The integrated syst
Miclyn Express Offshore (“MIO”) has through its Thai Joint Venture, Uniwise Offshore,been awarded a 3 year firm contract, plus 2 x 1 year extension options, to provide coil tubing marine support services to Chevron`s production activities in the Gulf of Thailand. Uniwise Offshore will purchase a Pla
On a visit to Myanmar, where French oil and gas major Total operates the Yadana offshore gas field, Christophe de Margerie, Chairman and CEO of Total, met with government officials and representatives of civil society. Christophe de Margerie, Chairman and CEO of Total, traveled to Myanmar on Saturda
There are great things happening aboard the vessel “Havila Phoenix” nowadays. During the last two years there have been installations and tests of a whole new system likely to revolutionise the offshore light well intervention market. The vessel, a Havyard 858 design, is designed and constructed by
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that Kawasaki Gas Turbine-Americas, Kawasaki’s Houston-based sales and service affiliate for North and South American market, was awarded by Technip, which is one of the world’s leading engineering companies in the oil and gas field , a contract for su
