Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions early phase studies for all their recent major discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf; the Skrugard and Havis fields in the Barents Sea and the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea. Contract values are undisclosed. The past year has been unique, with J
Sembcorp Marine‘s subsidiaray SMOE Pte Ltd has secured a contract worth about US$175 million from Premier Oil Natuna Sea B.V. for the engineering and construction of 2 Wellhead Platforms, 2 infield sub-sea pipelines and modification works on an existing facility for the Naga and Pelikan Project, off
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, an international offshore oil and gas development and production company with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea, announced that Matt McCarroll has joined ATP as Chief Executive Officer of ATP Oil & Gas Corporation. ATP Chairman T. Paul B
Mexico´s state controlled oil company Pemex has signed a letter of intent with the Mexican Navy for the construction of new vessels for the oil company´s fleet. The Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Mariano Francisco Saynez and CEO of Petroleos Mexicanos, Juan Jose Suarez Coppel signed the agreement. U
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. hosted an Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders today in Rotterdam. The purpose of the Meeting was to approve the issue of 30 million shares in Fairstar for the purposes of constructing an additional 50,000 DWT semi-submersible ship identical in specification to FORTE a
RWE Dea Norge AS, a subsidiary of the German oil and gas company RWE Dea AG, has won the German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce annual Business Award 2012 for its focus on the development of new methods and exchange of knowledge between Norway and Germany. “We are very honoured to receive this award w
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation today announced that it has resumed recompletion operations at the Mississippi Canyon (MC) 941 A-2 well at the company’s Telemark Hub. The recompletion was suspended while the company recovered a piece of tubing that was stuck in the casing. All of the tubing has now been r
Endeavour International Corporation yesterday announced that it had completed the acquisition of the additional 23.43% working interest in the Alba field from ConocoPhillips. The Alba oil field, located in Block 16/26a, in the Central North Sea is a late Eocene reservoir that has been producing sinc
Rialto has commenced a sidetrack (the Gazelle-P3 ST2 well) to optimise the recently drilled Gazelle-P3 ST well in order to underpin the oil and gas development of the Gazelle Field. Following planned testing in the Upper Cenomanian-1 reservoir (UC-1), the Gazelle-P3 ST2 well is intended to be suspen
Norway’s Simon Møkster Shipping increases its focus on the subsea market by ordering a new build special designed for ROV work, survey, diving and light construction work. In addition, the vessel will be able to provide services to windmill construction work. It is designed by Multi Maritime AS in F
During an Offshore Energy Tour hosted by Rep. Steve Scalise (LA-01), congressman Gene Green toured the Shell Brutus 1 platform in the Gulf of Mexico, noting the success of Shell’s production and progress toward restoring the Gulf economy. “I was glad to see that the Gulf of Mexico is heading in the
GC Rieber Shipping has today ordered a new high capacity subsea vessel from Ulstein Verft with an option of one additional vessel. The new building, to be delivered in the first quarter of 2014, represents a total investment of approximately NOK 800 million. “The market for this type of vessel is ex
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced today the successful award of a contract by the Exmar group for engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the world’s first Floating LNG Liquefaction, Regasification and St
Bergen Group Rosenberg has been awarded a brownfield modification project by ConocoPhillips. The contract will generate activity during 2012 and 2013, and has an estimated value in the range of NOK 350 million (USD 57 million). The EPCI-contract (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installati
