Petroceltic International plc has announced that a joint venture comprising Petroceltic and Edison International Spa was the successful bidder for the North Port Fouad Block, offshore the Nile Delta, in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2013 International Bid Round. North Port Fouad (Block 7)
Oman Drydock Company (ODC), one of the largest ship repair yards in the Middle East, said it has completed work on the Ibra LNG tanker, owned by Oman Shipping Company (OSC). It is the first membrane containment LNG vessel to be repaired at the yard after ODC passed stringent tests, to be awarded the
Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited announces that its wholly owned subsidiary in the Middle East has been awarded two saturation diving services contracts. Both Contracts are estimated to be of approximately 6-8 months duration in total. The first of these two Contracts has already commenced an
Danish product tanker carrier TORM A/S and UAE-based Albwardy Marine Engineering (AME), an Albwardy-Damen JV, have signed a Service Level Agreement for diving services in the UAE region. The purpose is to further strengthen their relations and respective commercial reliability. The diving services w
Two state-of-the-art Hitachi Large Excavators EX-1900-6 BH will arrive in Qatar next month to take part in the New Doha Port Project. The new port will be located to the north of Mesaieed, and will cover 20 square kilometers. Hitachi Construction Machinery Middle East Corporation FZE dealer for Qata
Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas Company, has secured, through its wholly owned subsidiary Dana Gas Explorations FZE, a US$ 100 million Term Facility for the Zora Field Development Project. This facility will contribute the debt component of the financing neede
Emirates Classification Society (TASNEEF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Drydocks World and Dubai Maritime City (DMC) aiming at providing classification services to the world’s first LNG-powered harbour tug carrying the trade mark “Elemarateyah”. This landmark undertaking, in which th
Noble Energy (NBL) has executed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to supply natural gas from the Leviathan field, offshore Israel, to the National Electric Power Company Ltd. (NEPCO) of Jordan. Under terms of the LOI, Noble Energy and the Leviathan partners will supply a base gross quantity of 1.
Qatar’s oil and gas company RasGas today informed that Train 1 of its “historic” $10.3 billion Barzan Gas Project is more than 95 per cent complete and is “rapidly ramping up for first production of clean-burning natural gas in the first quarter of 2015.“ Construction work on Train 2 is also progres
ABS, a provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, was selected by Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) to class the first self-elevating unit ever to be built in Qatar. The project also will be the first offshore newbuild project undertaken by the ASME and API accredite
Zora gas field development project, located 33 kilometres from the UAE coast line, is progressing well, Dana Gas has said today in its quarterly report. The company said it has awarded most of the contracts for the load out and installation of platform and topsides, the construction of the onshore g
Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, has secured a contract with the BP-operated prestigious Shah Deniz 2 project to provide their maintenance build capabilities. The contract, valued at around $ 8.5 million (£5 million), covers new onshore, offshore and pipeline assets
Italy’s Saipem has been awarded new drilling contracts in Indonesia, Nigeria, the Arabian Gulf and Latin America worth approximately $850 million of which $540 million are related to offshore activity and refer to four different units of Saipem’s fleet. Saipem has signed with Eni Muara Bakau B.V. a
KBR Inc. has received a letter of award from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Limited to perform engineering design services for the Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company Al-Nasr Full Field Development project, located offshore Abu Dhabi. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide engineering design
