Aker Drilling, through its subsidiary Aker Drilling Offshore Services Public Ltd., has agreed with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. an extension to the time limit for declaring its first optional drillship from end of June 2011 to the end of October 2011. The terms of the options
Pacific Drilling S.A. announced today that one of its subsidiaries has reached an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries to extend until October 31, 2011 an option to construct a seventh ultra-deepwater drillship. With its best-in-class drillships and highly experienced team, Pacific Drilling is a
In response to a request from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the U.S. Geological Survey today released the ‘science gap and sufficiency’ report evaluating science needed to better inform decisions regarding oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off
Aberdeen-based Ecosse Subsea Systems announced that it has scored a hat-trick of finalist’s positions in two awards schemes. The company is a finalist in the Wood Group Award for Innovation category of the annual Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise. The winner of the accolade will be announced a
Husky Energy Inc. announced today that it will raise approximately $1.2 billion offering of common shares by way of a bought deal (the “Public Offering”) and a concurrent private placement of common shares (the “Private Placement”) to its principal shareholders, L.F. Investments (Barbados) Limited,
Sonde Resources Corp. announced today that it will receive a total of US$97.0 million from the sale of Sonde’s 25% interest in Block 5(c), located off the east coast of Trinidad and Tobago. Sonde sold the interest for US$87.5 million and received cash consideration of US$75.5 million plus purchase p
Russian legislation should be adjusted to allow LUKoil to team up with Rosneft on offshore oil projects, LUKoil head Vagit Alekperov said… Rianovosti [mappress] Source:Rianovosti , June 23, 2011;
Deep Sea Supply today took delivery of “Sea Badger”, a newbuilding AHTS from ABG Shipyard, India. “Sea Badger” is the 7th delivery in a series of 9 newbuilding AHTS vessels from ABG. The Deep Sea Supply fleet now consists of 13 AHTS and 8 PSVs, in total 21 vessels. In addition to this, Deep Sea [&he
The government is poised to propose new rules that aim to boost the safety of offshore drilling and tighten standards for emergency … By Jennifer Dlouhy (Chron) [mappress] Source:Chron , June 23, 2011;
Airborne has announced the choice for the sea harbour of IJmuiden, the Netherlands, as location for its new design and manufacturing plant for Airborne Composite Tubulars. A brand new facility will be build, directly next to the quay of the harbour to allow for directly offloading to offshore sea ve
On 17 June 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) granted an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) to the Rowan Stavanger mobile living quarters and drilling facility, operated by Rowan Drilling Norway AS (Rowan Drilling). This AoC only applies for use as a living quarters facility. The AoC
Elko announced on May 4, 2011, that the Luna well will be drilled by the ‘Maersk Resolve’ jack up drilling unit. The rig had been secured by Noreco, the license operator, under a letter of intent. At that date the rig was expected to be available for Luna in mid August 2011 but this date […]
Havila Shipping has been awarded a Charter Party Contract by Statoil for a large PSV vessel for a fixed period of five years with three optional periods each of one year. Havila Shipping gave no details about the price of the Charter Party. The charter shall commence during December 2012 and in orde
AGR Field Operations has been awarded a major contract to perform a subsea inspection of offshore facilities in the Bass Strait of Australia. This significant scope of work involves an ROV based general visual inspection and a cathodic protection survey as well as installation work. The facilities t
