The purpose built and highly specified vessels have been designed to provide long term support to BP’s North Sea business and will provide the capabilities BP requires to deliver its strategy more efficiently and safely.
In its interim statement released today, UK based Cairn announced participation in the current bid round offshore Cyprus. Cairn and its partners submitted the Bids on 11 May with awards expected towards the end of the year. Cairn holds a 40% share in the bidding consortium and other partners compris
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard has secured a contract for the repair and upgrading of FSO Palanca from Angola’s state controlled oil company Songangol. The contract, signed in Luanda, Angola, calls for the major repairs and upgrading of the 20-year-old FSO Palanca, used for storage
Rolls-Royce, the global power system company, has secured a £6 million contract to provide an integrated design, power & propulsion and equipment systems package for an offshore supply vessel to be built at Norwegian ship yard Simek AS for ship owner Atlantic Offshore. The vessel is a Rolls-Royce UT
International oilfield services company Expro has once again been recognised for its outstanding safety record globally. Expro has been commended in the oil & gas industry sector of the annual 2012 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) safety awards. Expro has received awards from Ro
China based Yuexin Ocean Engineering last week delivered an Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel to Tidewater Marine. The 69.9m vessel, named Foster Tide, is of Focal Marine & Offshore Corp Ltd. design capable of developing the maximum speed of 14.14 knot. Foster Tide, which can accommodate a cr
Snam and Fluxys have reached an agreement to acquire E.ON’s 15.09% stake in Interconnector (UK), owner and operator of the subsea pipeline between the UK (Bacton) and Belgium (Zeebrugge) providing a strategic bi-directional link between the UK and the continental gas trading places. Last January, Sn
Apache Corporation yesterday afternoon announced that an extension well had initial production rates higher than any oil well drilled at the Beryl Field in the U.K. North Sea since 2001. “We’re very excited about this well because we’ve found virgin reservoir pressure in two of three zones containin
Marine Accurate Well ASA – MARACC has signed a 12 well drilling Contract with Lundin Norway AS for the semi-submersible drilling rig Island Innocator The contract is expected to provide Island Innovator with minimum of two years of drilling operations offshore Norway with commencement in the 2nd qua
Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd., one of the UK’s leading providers of energy support services announced the resumption of flights which were suspended after one of the helicopters, on its way to an offshore rig, ditched into the North Sea last Thursday. Bill Munro, Managing Director of Bond Offshore
Nautronix has been awarded a contract to supply the acoustic positioning system for Noble’s fourth new Ultra-Deepwater Drillship
BC Petroleum Sdn Bhd (“BCP”), the company incorporated by ROC, PETRONAS and Dialog Group to operate and manage the Balai Cluster Risk Service Contract in Malaysia, has secured project finance for the pre-development phase of the project. BCP has entered into a facility agreement for the financing of
Bergen Group Hanøytangen has been awarded an LOI from Semco Maritime for a possible yard stay at Hanøytangen for a semi-submersible drilling rig in Q3 2012. For Bergen Group Hanøytangen the project is estimated to generate a turnover of NOK 50-100 million. Bergen Group Hanøytangen will be a subcontr
JP Kenny Norway has signed a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Norske Shell for the high temperature, high pressure Linnorm project in Norway. Valued at approximately US$9 million (NOK 55 million), this contract forms part of a global Enterprise Frame Agreement awarded to Wood Group
