Now the disaster ship Costa Concordia floats again, the work of the Dutch Conquest MB1 crane ship and her crew is there almost done. The Dutch company Conquest Offshore has in the recent months, in cooperation with a large group of international companies, installed the sponsoons that will refloat t
The substation for Westermost Rough was placed firmly on the jacket in the beginning of June, 2014 and it was a very smooth and a very fast process. Following the set-down, the welding of the topside to the jacket was performed, the lifting rigging removed and the stairs connecting the topside to th
The first day of the refloating operation of the Concordia has concluded successfully yesterday. Confirming technician’s estimations, the wreck is afloat thanks to the buoyancy given by sponsons, 22 meters off the false sea bed, and it has been towed for about 30 meters eastwards. The wreck is secur
Atlantic Petroleum announces that the initial production testing from the Blackbird Field second production well, 20/02a-B3, has achieved sustained rates of over 7,000 bbls/day (c. 660 bbls/day net to Atlantic Petroleum), which was constrained by surface equipment. The well is being drilled and test
Operations this morning are continuing to plug and abandon the Oi-2 well in Petroleum Mining Permit 38158, offshore Taranaki, New Zealand. The next operation will be to abandon Oi-1 prior to releasing the rig. The well intersected the primary target Kapuni F10 sands and underlying secondary targets
Norshore Atlantic has recently successfully completed its first contract with BlueSky Langsa. The technical uptime for the complete operation was 98.3%. The work has been a combination of ROV inspection and well intervention work on 2 subsea wells on the Langsa Field in Indonesia. The well intervent
Atlantic Petroleum announces that drilling of the Pegasus West well 43/13b-7 has commenced on P1724 in the UKCS. The well is being drilled with the Noble Julie Robertson jackup rig in a water depth of about 95 feet. Pegasus West is being drilled approximately 7 km WSW of the 43/13b-6Z Pegasus North
6 Alpha Associates, the strategic advisor for managing specialist offshore risks, has completed a contract with Pelagian Ltd, a specialist subsea cable and hydrographic survey consultancy, supporting the Channel Islands Electricity Group in managing prospective unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk for the
James Fisher – the UK’s leading marine services provider, announces the formation of a new venture with Aberdeen based company KDM Marine – James Fisher Mass Flow Excavation – to jointly offer their market-leading subsea excavation capability and resources to the offshore industry in a single entity
African Petroleum Corporation Limited announces that it has entered into an agreement with Buried Hill Africa Limited (“Buried Hill”) to farm-out a 10% interest in Block CI-509 offshore Côte d’Ivoire in return for Buried Hill funding 21.1% of the cost of the next exploration well to be drilled on Bl
Tangiers Petroleum Limited provides an update on the drilling of the TAO-1 exploration well, located offshore Morocco. No major operational issues have occurred to date and the well is expected to intersect the Assaka and Trident objectives within 60 days from spud, as previously announced. As the w
Snøhvit is the first offshore development in the Barents Sea and the first major development on the Norwegian continental shelf with no surface installations. The seabed facilities are designed to be over-trawlable, so that neither they nor fishing equipment will suffer any damage from coming into c
Siemens has completed installation of the offshore platform for the direct-current connection HelWin2. Working under contract from the German-Dutch grid operator TenneT, Siemens has thus achieved a decisive milestone of the German grid connection projects. “We have now installed three high-tech plat
Hydrex team has replaced the three leaking bow thruster shaft seals of a 400-meter container ship in Gdansk, Poland. The operation was performed on-site and underwater using the company’s flexible mobdocks. The vessel was able to continue its commercial activities without any hindrance or delay. Tog
