STX Norway Offshore has signed contracts for the building of two icebreaker tugs to JSC Circle Marine Invest. The vessels will be delivered in 2011, and the total value of the two contracts amounts to approximately NOK 450 million (USD 71 million) . “We look forward to continuing the good cooperatio
Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, provides an update on operations at its Ernest and Sea Lion locations. The Ernest 26/6-1 exploration well has been safely plugged and abandoned as a dry hole following completion of all logging runs. The Ocean Gua
Energy consultancy Xodus Group has won an open tender for the Detailed Design of the Huntington Development, the largest oil and gas discovery in the UK Central North Sea for five years. The contract worth approximately £1 million is one of the largest subsea projects the Aberdeen-based consultancy
The world’s largest subsea engineering and project management company, Wood Group Kenny, has been awarded the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and related project management support activities for the BG Norge AS, Jordbaer field development. The proposed field development, located in the North Ta
MODEC announced that Petrobras, through its wholly owned subsidiary PNBV, on behalf of Consortium BM-S-9, has signed a letter of intent for the supply, respectively, charter, and operations of a Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the BM-S-9 (Guara) Block in the giant “pr
The Subsea Production Engineering Course provides an overview of all of the key processes, technologies and equipment that comprise contemporary subsea production developments. It focuses on how subsea hardware, pipelines, riser systems, and other equipment relate to design philosophies and how to e
Norway: Wartsila Signs Extensive Service Agreement with Eidesvik
Leading international oilfield service company Expro announces today that it has secured 10 subsea contracts in its Europe CIS region for work in 2010 and 2011. More than $10million worth of new subsea business has been secured in the central North Sea and Norway with companies including Premier Oil
Deepwater Corrosion’s retrofit boat is working in the Eastern gulf. The boat will migrate Westward over the summer and be available for South Texas by the end of the summer season. The boat will be totally self sufficient to perform retrofits on structures in less than 90 fsw. The retrofits will be
Hurricane Exploration plc announced that it has commenced drilling its Whirlwind basement prospect in Block 205/21 a West of Shetlands. The location is approximately 12 km north of its Lancaster oil discovery well. Whirlwind is geologically similar to Lancaster sharing the same source rock and reser
The Nomination committee in Statoil is recommending to the company’s corporate assembly to elect Lady Barbara Judge and Bjørn Tore Godal as new members of Statoil’s board of directors. The Nomination committee is recommending the corporate assembly to re-elect Svein Rennemo (chair of the board), Mar
Tidewater Inc. announced today that Dean E. Taylor, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Quinn P. Fanning, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Pareto Securities’ 17th Annual Oil and Offshore Conference in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, September 2, 2
Sasol announces the assignment of participating interests in the Sofala and M-10 licenses offshore Mozambique to Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH). Yesterday Sasol, through Sasol Petroleum International Pty Limited (SPI), the wholly owned upstream oil and gas subsidiary of Sasol Limited, and
Farstad refers to press release of 15 July 2010. The platform supply vessel (PSV) “Seabed Viking”, has yesterday, Tuesday 24 August, been delivered to Farstad Shipping Limited, a wholly owned UK subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA. The vessel will be renamed “Far Server”. The vessel is currently on c
