An Aberdeen-based subsea firm is making waves as an industry leader in the global supply of expert personnel – and has identified Brazil as its next target market. Following two trips to the South American country in recent months, Turriff-born Mike Wilson and his team at Ecosse Subsea Systems are p
On August 27, 2010 Sakhalin Energy produced the 100th LNG cargo at Prigorodnoye production complex starting from January 2010. Each produced cargo is defined as 145 000 m³. The Sakhalin-2 LNG plant was launched in February 2009. In less than 1.5 years of operation and production, the first Russian L
Offshore managers at contract drilling giant Transocean’s UK unit have been accused of bullying, aggression, harassment, humiliation and … [mappress] Source: automatedtrader, September 6, 2010;
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) announces that it has received industry funding for a joint project to accelerate the use of 3D EM data in exploration and production. The EDDA project involves acquiring state-of-the-art 3D EM data over known fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Data acq
Damen Shipyards Group announced the sale of its first-ever Twin Axe Catamaran, the Damen High Speed Support Vessel (HSSV) 2610, which is particularly suited for the offshore wind industry. Marineco UK, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, recently signed for the new HSSV 2610 with an option for a second. T
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted A/S Norske Shell a drilling permit for wellbore 6603/5-1 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 6603/5-1 S will be drilled from the Aker Barents drilling facility at position 66°34’33.20” north and 3°32’46.10” east afte
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Petro-Canada Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 34/4-13 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 34/4-13 S will be drilled from the West Alpha drilling facility at position 61º 38’ 43” North and 02º 05’ 59’ East, aft
The Free Port of Riga started elaboration of the draft design for the ship access channel reconstruction. The dredging project aims at … (crewing) [mappress] Source: crewing, September 3, 2010;
We have now been busy on the expansion of the Rotterdam port for two years. More than twenty trailing suction hopper dredgers have been depositing their cargo of sand day and night on the bed of the North Sea. Cutter suction dredgers have been making their contribution from the depths of the docks.
Plans to build a giant container ship terminal in Liverpool may have to be scrapped because of new environmental guidelines designed to … By Ben Schofield (liverpooldailypost) [mappress] Source: liverpooldailypost, September 3, 2010;
The Board of Directors of EXMAR has drawn up the accounts for the period ending 30th June 2010. The Group had an operating result (EBIT) of USD 15.9 million for the first semester 2010 (USD 20.7 million for the first semester 2009). The financial result was negatively influenced by the change in fai
The Fos Cavaou LNG terminal has received the green light from the Bouches du Rhône Prefecture to operate at full capacity. With its 8.25 billion cu.m/year natural gas capacity, Fos Cavaou increases France’s LNG regasification capacity to over 23 billion cu.m/year, thus strengthening the security of
Around 240 million m3 of sand is needed to construct the first phase of Maasvlakte 2. At its peak, about 3 million m3 of sand a week was being shifted, while it’s now a little less hectic with over 1 million m3 a week. That’s what you would achieve if every inhabitant of the Netherlands […]
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
