Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced today the order for eight (8) Heavy-Duty™ (HD™) ROV systems from integrated offshore oil and gas solutions provider EMAS, the operating arm of Ezra Holdings Limited. The HD™ systems will be rated for 4,000m and will be supplied with 850m
Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that their latest generation drillship, the Pacific Scirocco, has received a Letter of Award from Total E&P Nigeria Limited, subject to completion of formalities with relevant government agencies in the near future, to perform exploration and development work in Niger
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) has been awarded a contract by ENSCO to transport the ENSCO 105 jack-up drilling rig from Malta to Singapore. The rig will be floated on to the Fairstar semi-submersible, heavy transport vessel FJORD in Malta’s Grand Harbour on May 3, 2011 and will immediately de
Halliburton announced the delivery of its next generation well-testing technology for deepwater environments. The technology provides improved economies to operators by enabling more efficient and reliable reservoir testing. DynaLink® – Halliburton’s proven, two-way wireless acoustic telemetry syste
Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) announced today that it has opened its headquarters in Houston. The offices house the day-to-day business operations as well as a dedicated emergency response center in the event MWCC is called to respond to a deepwater well control incident in the U.S. Gulf of
Technip was awarded a 10-year master agreement by BP Exploration and Production, Inc. The agreement covers the design, procurement and construction of hulls and mooring systems for Spar(1) platforms to be located in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the design of top tension risers(2) for dry tree unit
Kleven Maritime has signed a new contract with Rem Offshore for delivery of one LNG powered offshore vessel. With this new contract, Kleven Maritime’s order reserve increases to 9 vessels at a combined value of 3.3 billion NOK. The vessel is of Wärtsilä Ship Design and is scheduled for delivery from
Fugro has reached agreement with JDR Cable Systems (Netherlands) Ltd to acquire JDR Cable Systems Holdings Netherlands BV and its marine cable subsidiary JDR Cable Systems BV, together comprising JDR’s Marine Cables division. JDR Marine Cables designs and produces special marine cables for oil and g
The load out operation for Reshadat field’s P4 jacket started on Wednesday 27, April 2011 at around noon and ended the following morning at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday. According to IOEC Public Relations Department the dimensions of P4 and its weight of 3200 Mt makes it an exceptional Jacket. The jacket w
Paradigm Oilfield Services is today launching a drilling reamer with a unique pressure-controlled on/off mechanism, enabling operators to drill ahead without having to pull the tool out of the hole to reset it. The patent pending hydraulic Real Time Activation Drilling Reamer is triggered by standpi
Sanmina-SCI Corporation , a leading manufacturing solutions company, today announced specialized services to help oil and gas companies be more competitive with scalable capacity near the world’s major exploration and production operations. Sanmina-SCI’s array of design, engineering and manufacturin
Foster Wheeler AG announced today that Jon Nield, 47, has been promoted to Vice President, Project Risk Management Group (PRMG), effective immediately. In this role, he will be responsible for leading the group that sets, reviews and implements the company’s risk management policy for proposal and c
LUKOIL Overseas (a 100% subsidiary of OAO LUKOIL) has acquired from Quad Energy S.A., a private petroleum company, a 50% interest in the Production Sharing Agreement for the Hanoi Trough-02 (НТ-02) offshore block. The transaction is subject to certain conditions precedent, and among other things the
Subsea 7, will mark its new beginning to the global oil and gas industry at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, where its presence is bigger than ever before. Subsea 7 Inc. and Acergy S.A. merged in January this year, bringing together two very strong subsea companies
