Siem Offshore and Stork Technical Services (RBG) Ltd. have entered into a charter agreement for one of Siem Offshore’s 2009-built Multi Role Service Vessel’s of MT 6017 Mk II design. The agreement is made at market terms and is for a firm period of two years from second quarter 2013, with two one-ye
Dolphin Geophysical commenced acquisition earlier this year of a 5,000km2 3D Multi-Client high-resolution, AVO friendly BroadBand, SHarp seismic survey which will be completed Spring 2013. This new BroadBand 3D survey in UK Quads 29 and 30 will provide data over a part of the basin margin that has b
As part of the European LIFE+ INDEMARES project, the Oceana Ranger has filmed this seamount off the shore of Almería (Spain) for three years. The analysis of the information obtained will be completed in 2013, and will serve to protect the area by means of its inclusion in the Natura 2000 network. T
Statoil has been awarded shares in 7 exploration licences on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS). The company is operator for 2 of these, and expects this number to increase when the blocks pending environmental assessment are awarded. The licences which were awarded by the UK authorities ar
Seacat Services, the class leading vessel transfer operator, has announced that Resolute, its latest 24-metre, class-certified workboat, has been contracted to Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Limited, to work at the Greater Gabbard and Galloper offshore wind farms. With growing pressure to deliver a s
Statoil’s third quarter 2012 net operating income was NOK 40.9 billion, a 4% increase compared to NOK 39.3 billion in the third quarter of 2011. “Statoil delivered solid financial results in the quarter. By ramping up new fields, we have grown production year to date by 10% compared to the same peri
Mercon and Liandon announce that Imtech has joined their MLK Projects consortium. MLK Projects was founded by Liandon and Mercon earlier this year to market a new innovation in offshore substations named COSS for Compact Offshore Substation. As associated engineering company, KCI was heavily involve
Mercon and Liandon announce that Imtech has joined their MLK Projects consortium. MLK Projects was founded by Liandon and Mercon earlier this year to market a new innovation in offshore substations named COSS for Compact Offshore Substation. As associated engineering company, KCI was heavily involve
Statoil ASA has signed an agreement to exit the Brage licences, farm down in Gjøa and Vega and acquire a 15 % stake in the Edvard Grieg licence near the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The consideration to be paid by Wintershall includes a contingent consideration of USD 100 million relating
Saipem has been awarded new E&C Offshore contracts worth $1.1 billion in Brazil, Angola and the Caspian Sea. In Brazil, Saipem has signed an EPIC contract with Petrobras for the projects Sapinhoá Norte and Cernambi Sul, within the development of the Pre-Salt Risers in the Santos Basin, approximately
Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has received consent to use Island Constructor for light well intervention activities on Tordis and Vigdis. Light well intervention is cable-based well maintenance where a cable is run directly through sea and down in the well without using a riser, as opposed to when
Today the construction of the 690MW platform for TenneT’s offshore grid connection project HelWin2 officially started. The steel cutting ceremony took place at the yard of Heerema Fabrication Group in Zwijndrecht (the Netherlands), where the topsides of the platform will be built. The jacket and bri
The operations and maintenance base now under construction at Egmere, just south of Wells-next- the-Sea is well on track to be completed by early December. Externally, the environmentally-friendly roof was finished in summer, the block work and brick work is in its final stages, windows are being in
Subsea services company Deep Ocean is experiencing great success as a leading provider of subsea services to the oil and gas operators. For years the company had Haugesund as the base for its subsea business in Norway. Now they are establishing a subsea engineering department in Trondheim, Norway. T