The Hoang Long Joint Operating Company, operator of Block 16-1 in the Cuu Long Basin offshore Vietnam, announces that the Te Giac Den appraisal well, TGD-2X,encountered hydrocarbons in a clastics sequence at approximately 4,450 metres measured depth. Drilled to appraise the “E” prospect discovery, T
STX Europe reported an EBITDA of NOK 205 million for the second quarter of 2010 which is an increase from NOK 75 million in the second quarter 2009. The Offshore & Specialized Vessels business area had a record EBITDA in the second quarter of NOK 298 million and the Cruise & Ferries business area ha
The offshore oil and gas industry is better equipped to deal with deep-water accidents because of lessons that BP learned battling its … By BRETT CLANTON (Houston Chronicle) [mappress] Source: Thehoustonchronicle, September 1, 2010,
Offshore Solutions B.V. (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland N.V., has appointed Lindsay Young as managing director. Mr Young joins the business from RBG Ltd. (RBG) where he was operations director for its UK business. With more than 25 years experience within contractor compa
INPEX CORPORATION announces that through its wholly-owned subsidiary INPEX Alpha, Ltd., it has commenced crude oil production from the BHP Billiton operated Ravensworth field in the production license area WA-43-L offshore Western Australia. The Ravensworth field, discovered in 2003 at a water depth
Police last night vowed to arrest environmental campaigners who have halted drilling on a Scottish oil rig off the coast of Greenland. [mappress] Source: Heraldscotland, September 1, 2010,
Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard has delivered the second of a series of four Multipurpose Platform Supply Vessels (MPSV) for Singapore’s … [mappress] Source: lankabusinessonline, September 1, 2010,
In a visit to IHC Engineering Business (EB) on Tuesday 31 August 2010, local Labour MP, Alex Cunningham, (Stockton North), declared that the company which recently (31 May 2010) completed an order to build one of the world’s biggest marine pipe laying machines, represents the “future and the best of
At this year’s SMM shipbuilding exhibition from the 7th to the 10th of September, MTU’s exhibits will include a new genset for diesel-electric propulsion and on-board power generation which is specifically designed to meet the needs of supply ships for wind farms or oil and gas rigs. Developed on th
Stratos Global, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced it has begun deployment of its new StratosMAX II broadband service across the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region. The new StratosMAX II service provides last-mile radio connectivit
Dockwise Ltd. announces 12 awards for Heavy Marine Transport (HMT) and engineering projects that have recently been secured by its subsidiary Dockwise Shipping with a total contract value of almost USD 37 million. Dockwise was awarded an engineering contract to provide a FEM (Finite Element Model) a
The corporate assembly of Statoil has chosen Lady Barbara Judge and Bjørn Tore Godal as new members of Statoil’s board of directors. The corporate assembly also re-elected Svein Rennemo as chair, Marit Arnstad as deputy chair, and Roy Franklin, Grace Reksten Skaugen and Jakob Stausholm as board memb
Valiant Petroleum plc announced that its operated Viola North exploration well (Licence P1629, Block 30/18b) spud on 30 August 2010 using the Ensco 100 jack-up drilling rig. The well is anticipated to take around 60 days to reach its target depth of 15,750 ft true vertical depth sub-sea (~4,800 metr
Cairn Energy’s Stena Don oil rig is scaled by Greenpeace activists to demand an end to offshore drilling. The four climbers used RHIBS to dodge Danish Navy Commandos before climbing up the inside of the rig and hanging from it in tents suspended from ropes, halting its drilling operation. The climbe
