The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and eleven other state entities are participating in a pilot scheme involving moderate affirmative action to recruit employees with an immigrant background. The target group for the scheme, which will run until the end of 2014, are immigrants from Europe outside o
Farstad Shipping ASA has, through its wholly owned subsidiaries P/R International Offshore Services ANS and Farstad Shipping Pte. Ltd, reached an agreement to sell the AHTS Lady Gerda (1987, Hart Fenton, 8.700 BHP) and the AHTS Lady Cynthia (1987, Hart Fenton, 9.500 BHP). Delivery of the vessels to
Norway’s Aker Solutions has won a contract from Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd to supply a complete drilling equipment package for a new jack-up drilling rig, being built by the Chinese yard. The contract value is undisclosed. The new rig is of the 2000E jack-up design, and the contract includes o
ASL Marine Holdings Ltd., a Singapore-based marine group engaged in shipbuilding, ship-repair and conversion, as well as ship chartering, has secured contracts worth S$132.5 million for the construction of five vessels. The vessels comprised four 75-tonne bollard-pull Diesel Electric Hybrid Azimuth
AF Group has signed a letter of intent to purchase 90 percent of the shares in 5D Group AS. The agreement is conditioned by a due diligence and an approval by the board of directors of AF Gruppen ASA. 5D Group is a supplier to the offshore industry, mainly within engineering, electrical and instrume
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has been selected to supply its sophisticated new Launch and Recovery System (E-LARS) for Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV), for installation on a new Forland Shipping AS subsea vessel currently under contruction at Havyard Leirvik, Nor
Xtract Energy today announced that the P2-10 well is currently being drilled by Chevron using the Noble Byron Welliver jack-up drilling rig and is now designated as “tight hole” in order to protect their proprietary technology being used to drill the well . “Tight hole” designation means that inform
BHP Billiton, the operator of Philippines Service Contract 55 (SC55), has requested an 18 months extension to the current Exploration Sub-Phase 4 of SC5. If approved by the DOE, this would extend the current contractual deadline to complete drilling of the commitment well from 5 th August 2012 to 5
JFE Steel Corporation, in cooperation with Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., has received an order for approximately 150,000 tons of DNV-grade-450 UOE line pipe for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Wheatstone is one of Australia’s largest resource projects and involves the con
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces the signing of a further contract to supply wellhead equipment for appraisal activity to an operating subsidiary of Bowleven pl
Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 418, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-7. The well has been drilled about 17 kilometres southwest of the Gjøa field in the North Sea. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rock from the Upper J
In April 2011, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) signed two shipbuilding contracts with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for the delivery of two Ramform vessels in 2013, with the option for one or two additional vessels to be delivered in 2015. The parties have now agreed to extend the exercise perio
Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion and new building announced today that it has delivered Self Elevating Platform Samrat to the owner, Mumbai, India-based AFCONS Infrastructure. The Platform was built at Drydocks World – Dubai shipyard. The Self Elevating
DONG Energy will be increasing its production of oil and gas via production from the Norwegian Oselvar field. Oselvar is DONG Energy’s second development as operator in Norway. The field was put into production Saturday 14 April. “We are now the operator of two Norwegian fields. This confirms our lo
