Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has received a Letter of Intent from Lansdowne Oil & Gas PLC for a 300 square kilometer 3D seismic acquisition project in the Celtic Sea, offshore Ireland. The survey will commence immediately following completion of the Company’s first 3D seismic acquisit
The partnerships in Draupne-, Hanz- and West Cable licenses have submitted an application for an environmental impact assessment for these discoveries. Draupne, with the smaller discoveries at Hanz and West Cable, is one of the major discoveries on the Norwegian shelf in recent years. The first oil
Technip announced today that the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) has awarded it a contract for the design, procurement and fabrication of the umbilical, riser and flowline components of MWCC’s expanded well containment response system for the US Gulf of Mexico, set for completion in 2012. Tec
Qatar is planning to pump a staggering $170 billion into projects in the next 11 years and nearly $140 billion will be allocated for … Source: Emirates247 [mappress] Source: Emirates247, March 15, 2011;
T-Rex Engineering & Construction, L.C. (T-Rex) announces the recent asset acquisition from Delcor USA, Inc. This significantly expands T-Rex’s fabrication capabilities for the offshore oil & gas industry. “This facility, which is located on Carpenter’s Bayou near the Houston Ship Channel, gives T-Re
In February 2010 Havyard Group signed contract with Sinopec Corp. (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation) for delivery of Design and Engineering for building of a Havyard 843 Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS). Later the same year Yuexin Shipbuilding was awarded the contract for building the
GL Noble Denton, one of the leading independent technical advisors to the oil and gas industry, has appointed Mukundray Davé to lead the company’s hazard and risk management practice in the Americas. An industry thought leader in technical safety, Mukundray has nearly two decades’ experience of risk
Cameron has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Petrobras, confirming Cameron’s intent to enhance its research and development efforts in Brazil through a $30 million investment in R&D facilities at two locations. Cameron’s Jacarei plant in Sao Paulo State will add leading-edge testing c
Greatship (India) Limited , a subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited has taken delivery of GREATSHIP RASHI, a Platform/ROV Support Vessel, from Colombo Dockyard Plc, Sri Lanka. Greatship Rashi is a Class II DP vessel and has been built complying with the new SPS Code 2008 and Envir
BHP Billiton CEO, Marius Kloppers, today announced a donation of US$1 million to the Red Cross to assist with disaster relief in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Mr Kloppers said BHP Billiton had a long standing and substantial relationship with Japan. “Japan is one of BHP Billiton’s
Mrs. Francesca Pratt, wife of Christopher Pratt, Chairman of Swire Pacific Limited, was the Lady Sponsor today at the naming of Pacific Champion, the latest addition to the Swire Pacific Offshore fleet. Built at Sekwang Heavy Industries in Ulsan, Korea, Pacific Champion is a new UT786 Clean Design,
Grenland Group has received three Letters of Intent for a total of NOK 220 million from FMC Technologies’ Kongsberg operation. Manufacture of equipment to support the Ormen Lange Project Grenland Group, as a supplier to FMC Technologies, has received a Letter of Intent to manufacture and deliver one
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract worth about US$210 million from Japan Drilling Company (JDC) to build a KFELS Super B Class jackup rig. Slated for delivery in the first quarter of 2013, the rig will be JDC’s first newbuild rig order in six years and Keppel FELS’ first for JD
Honeywell announced that it has been selected by the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute (KOMERI), to implement its award winning Mar 08, 2011 – [1] UniSim® simulation solution at KOMERI’s new Testing and Certification Centre being built in Geoje, Korea. KOMERI is South Korea’s leading researc
