TransAtlantic has received the delivery of Brage Viking, an AHTS vessel from the Astilleros Zamakona S.A shipyard in Spain. The vessel will be flagged up in the Danish register of ships, DIS. Brage Viking is the last new-built ship in a series of four, which have been built at the Spanish shipyard.
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 that it has received £260,000 funding from Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited (‘Maersk Oil UK’), a leading independent oil and gas
Malaysia’s SapuraCrest reported today that its subsidiaries TL Offshore PLSV1 Ltd and TL Offshore PLSV2 Ltd , has each yesterday entered into contracts with IHC Offshore And Marine B.V, for the construction of two 550 t pipelay support vessels, at a fixed lump sum price. The two contracts are both d
Yesterday, on 12 January 2012, Falkland Islands Holdings plc (FIH) agreed to participate in the placing of new shares by FOGL by subscribing for 2 million new shares. The £860,000 cost of the shares will be met from the Group’s existing cash resources and the purchase will be undertaken by the Group
Dragon Oil plc, an international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, announces that the Dzheitune (Lam) 13/140A sidetrack was completed with a single string to a depth of 2,237 metres by Rig 40 and tested for initial production at 2,123 barrels of oil per day (“bopd”). This
Astilleros Gondán shipbuilders have yesterday (12th January 2012) delivered the LNG Guardian stand-by vessel to its Italian owner, Fratelli Neri S.p.A. The LNG Guardian is the third ship to be built for Fratelli Neri at Gondan Shipyard. This is an FRSU ( Floating Storage Regasification Unit) support
Bjørn Jalving has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Kongsberg Maritime’s Subsea division and a member of the Kongsberg Maritime management group, effective 1st January 2012. Jalving will succeed Rolf Arne, who is moving to a role working with strategic projects in Kongsberg Maritime. Jal
TTS Energy AS has on the 12th of January 2012 signed the contract for delivery of two complete wellhead platform drilling units with OSX WHP 1&2 Leasing B.V, a subsidiary of OSX S.A of Brazil The 2 units are to be delivered Q2 and Q3 2013. The scope of work will be performed jointly by […]
A scheduled helicopter en route from the Deepsea Bergen drilling rig to Kristiansund made a controlled emergency landing on Statoil’s Åsgard B floating gas platform at 16.45 on Thursday afternoon. Odfjell Drilling had four employees onboard the helicopter. The incident happened when the helicopter a
Australia’s largest gas producer, Santos today announced the final investment decision (FID) approving the $490 million Fletcher Finucane oil project in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. The project will be developed through a three well sub-sea tie back to the existing Santos-operate
Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) announced today that it has agreed to dilute its share in three deep-offshore exploration blocks in the Makassar Strait in Indonesia to French supermajor Total. The farm-out agreement includes the dilution of PTTEP’s 33% share
Tap Oil Limited, an independent oil & gas exploration and production company with interests in Australia and South East Asia has entered into an agreement with Santos Limited (Santos) whereby Santos will acquire Tap’s 8.2% interest in the WA-191-P offshore exploration permit for a total cash payment
Chevron Canada Limited, Statoil Canada Ltd. and Repsol E&P Canada Ltd. have concluded agreements to conduct exploration activities offshore Atlantic Canada. Chevron and Statoil have also finalized another agreement for exploration activities in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. These new joint ventures ove
Technip was awarded two contracts by the international energy company Statoil, worth a total of around €55 million, for the Vilje South field and Visund North developments located in the North Sea at water depths of 120 and 385 meters respectively. These contracts cover welding and installation of a
