Damen Shipyards is the new operator of French shiprepair yard Sobrena. The yard will be renamed Damen Shiprepair Brest and will continue to serve the maritime and offshore industries with shiprepair and conversion services. The yard has three drydocks (up to 420 x 80 m) and will be available for rep
Recently, BOW Terminal in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, has invested in the largest fixed heavy lift crane of Europe (Gottwald MK 1500 crane), with 1200 tons lifting capacity. The availability of this permanent heavy lift capacity makes this terminal a perfect location for offshore (wind) and heavy l
Aker Solutions has successfully completed the manufacturing and subsequent load-out of eight subsea manifolds and six riser bases for Eni Norge’s Goliat project in the Barents Sea. On Tuesday 27 March the load-out commenced. This weekend, the heavy lift vessel Happy Dragon will sail away with her gi
Uruguay’s state-owned petroleum company, ANCAP, has announced that nine oil companies have placed nineteen bids for exploration and production offshore Uruguay. Bids come from oil majors for the 15 blocks offered by the Uruguayan government for the oil exploration and production in the Oriental del
On 28th March, OSX concluded its first offloading procedure, whereby crude oil stored in FPSO OSX-1 storage tanks was pumped to a shuttle vessel, totalling approximately 600 thousand barrels for its anchor client OGX, an oil and gas company responsible for the largest private-sector exploratory camp
UK’s Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has secured a £50 million order to design and equip two advanced offshore anchor handling vessels for Norwegian ship owner Farstad Shipping. The UT 731 CD vessels are designed and equipped to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow rigs to location and al
BP has decided to extend the maintenance and modification contract with Aker Solutions, exercising an option in the existing agreement for the Ula, Valhall, Skarv, Hod and Tambar fields. Work under the extended contract will last until April 2014, and the contract value is estimated to be in the ran
Bowleven, the African focused oil and gas company, traded on AIM, today announces the completion of the sale of its entire equity interest in the EOV Permit, offshore Gabon, to Perenco SA for a cash consideration of $35 million plus a working capital adjustment. The transaction involves the sale of
An Australian based oil and gas exploration and production company, AWE Limited, has completed the sale of 11.25% interest in T/L1 and a 2.75% interest in T/18P in the Bass Basin to Toyota Tsusho Gas E&P Trefoil Pty Ltd (“Toyota Tsusho”). Accordingly, AWE has received the cash consideration of $80.1
After it today announced the decision to sell 50% in one of its CSV vessels to Subsea 7, Norway’s offshore shipping company, Solstad Offshore ASA, has more news to offer. The company has secured a charter contract for its offshore construction vessel (CSV) “Normand Mermaid” with Ocean Installer AS,
Farstad Shipping ASA has reached an agreement with STX OSV AS to build two Anchor Handling / Offshore Service vessels (AHTS) of the type UT 731 CD. Contract value is estimated at approximately NOK 1.2 billion (USD 209 million). The vessels are designed by Rolls Royce Marine with a total length of 87
HYSY720, a seismic vessel owned by China Oilfield Services Limited （“COSL”）, has successfully completed 3D seismic data acquisition in East China Sea, establishing a precedence of all-weather operations for COSL’s geophysical fleet. This operation is the first East China Sea contract as well as the
Cochin Shipyard recently delivered a Platform Supply Vessel “Brage Trader” to M/s Brage Supplier K S, Norway. This is the fourth of a series of the high technology offshore vessel that have been constructed and delivered by CSL this financial year. The vessel is of PSV 09 CD type designed by STX OSV
Lotos Petrobaltic, an oil company that has an exclusive concession for the exploration and production of hydrocarbon fields in the Polish Offshore Economic Zone, has called for bids for service works on its jack-up platform. The contract is for service works on Baltic Beta jack-up platform to streng
