Tidewater Inc. announced today that it has entered into a contract with Drydocks World for the construction of four 265-foot deepwater platform supply vessels at its shipyard in Batam, Indonesia. The delivery of these high-performance, high-capacity, 3,200 metric ton deadweight platform supply vesse
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from National Grid Carbon for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Longannet Power Station in Fife, Scotland. The value of the contract has not been announced.
Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has submitted an Application for a Permit to Drill one exploration well in the Beaufort Sea in 2011. The formal submission to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) is specifically for the shallow waters of
BP and SOCAR (the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan) announced they had signed a new production sharing agreement (PSA) on joint exploration and development of the Shafag-Asiman structure in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. The PSA was signed today in Baku by Rovnag Abdullay
Technip has been awarded a lump sum engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning and start-up contract, worth nearly USD400 million, by the Khafji Joint Operations (joint venture between Aramco Gulf Operations and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company), for the Khafji Crude Related Offshore
WGP announced the successful completion of BP’s Valhall Life of Field Seismic (LoFS) no. 12 survey on time and in budget. The M/V Stril Myster has been fully demobilised and returned to supply vessel duties for BP. In 2003 BP installed its LoFS Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) array and contracted WGP to de
Aberdeenshire-based supplier of specialist oilfield chemicals Aubin has developed a ground-breaking concept that it says could … [mappress] Source: Worldnews, October 7, 2010;
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA today signed a contract worth approximately USD 1.5 million with Total E&P UK Ltd and DONG Energy to acquire 3D electromagnetic (EM) data in the West of Shetland area on the UK Continental Shelf. Total has established a significant portfolio of exploration and develop
GE announced that it has signed a contract to acquire Dresser, Inc., a global energy infrastructure technology and service provider. The $3 billion deal is the latest in a series of acquisitions over the last 10 years that has helped grow GE’s energy business and deliver record profitability. The ad
Kreuz Holdings Limited , a subsea service provider for the oil and gas industry, has today announced that a subsea installation contract worth approximately US$7.6 million was signed with a leading offshore construction company in the oil and gas business located in the Middle East. The scope of wor
Gas from Norway’s Trym field will be pumped onshore through a Danish platform in an EIB-financed project signed today with DONG Energy. The European Investment Bank will provide EUR 150 m to DONG Energy to develop the field. Trym was first discovered in 1989 but not explored, partly due to low marke
Fugro has purchased the 30 percent minority holding in Fugro Jacques GeoSurveys Inc. based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, from Stantec Consulting Ltd. Fugro has now full ownership of Fugro Jacques GeoSurveys Inc., which will enable Fugro to further expand the range of its services in Canada. T
Statoil has exercised options in the current framework agreement with AGR Field Operations for surface management services. The extension has an estimated total value of NOK 40 million over a period of 24 months. AGR Field Operations will provide Surface Management services including AGR’s proprieta
Leading towage and salvage specialist Multraship has bolstered its fleet of specialised tugs and multi-purpose vessels with the addition of the Damen newbuilding ASD 3213 tug Multratug 3. On September 30, the vessel embarked on its delivery voyage from Vietnam, where it was built by Damen Shipyards,
