Ocean Yield ASA has taken delivery of the diving support and offshore construction vessel “SBM Installer”. OS Installer, a joint venture between Ocean Yield ASA (75%) and SBM Offshore (25%) purchased the vessel from SBM Offshore earlier this month for US$150 million in cash. The vessel immediately e
FSUE Rosmorport is planning to conduct dredging operations during the 2015 navigation season at the Muchke Bay coal handling complex. The project named “Construction of a transport and handling coal complex on the northern coast of the Muchke Bay” comes as a part of a massive federal target program
Chevron North Sea Limited has awarded front end engineering and design contracts to Wood Group Kenny Caledonia for subsea work on its Captain EOR project. Under the contract, Wood Group Kenny will provide subsea engineering of the trees, wellheads, controls and the polymer injection flowlines to the
Statoil and its partners have decided to develop the Rutil discovery located in the Gullfaks Rimfaks valley in the North Sea. According to Statoil, providing close to 80 million barrels of oil equivalent, the development will extend the lifetime of the Gullfaks A platform. The plan for development a
Today Royal IHC (IHC) has successfully launched the first Easydredge® 2700. The vessel comes as the first in a range of competitively priced standard trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD). The launch took place at the IHC’s partner shipyard, MTG Dolphin, in Varna, Bulgaria. The vessel will be deli
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A, located offshore Norway. Wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig from the joint position in production licence 0
NKT Cables has been awarded the order for delivery of export cable systems to the Race Bank Offshore Wind farm by DONG Energy. The order is NKT Cables’ 11th large offshore wind farm project since 2010 where the company first started production of submarine cables. For NKT Cables, the order will have
Technip in Norway has today exercised their first option to extend the contract related to the newbuild Viking Neptun, owned by Eidesvik Offshore According to Reach Subsea and Eidesvik Offshore, the extension is from 110 to 180 days operations in 2015. As previously announced in November, the Eidesv
APM Terminals has signed a two-year $6.23 million contract with Amsterdam-based NV Nuon Energy for the supply of environmentally-sustainable wind-generated electricity to power the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II cranes and container handling equipment. The new deep-water terminal, scheduled to rece
Braveheart Shipping, in cooperation with Amasus Shipping, has established a crew tender service in Eemshaven. The crew tender service can be reached 24/7 and there is also a 24/7 a ship available. Eemshaven is chosen because of its ideal location, specifically the proximity of many wind farms and th
ABB and Hitachi have agreed to form a joint venture for high voltage direct current (HVDC) system solutions in Japan. The new entity, to be based in Tokyo, will be responsible for the design, engineering, supply and after-sales services related to the DC system of HVDC projects bringing ABB’s latest
Technip has completed the previously announced sale of its Diving Assets in the US Gulf of Mexico to Ranger Offshore. Earlier this month, Ranger also reported the closure of the previously announced agreement. Technip believes that this sale reinforces its strategy to focus on its core North America
Golar LNG agreed to sell ownership interest in Golar Eskimo FSRU to Golar LNG Partners.
French oilfield services provider Technip has completed the previously announced sale of its Diving Assets in the US Gulf of Mexico to Ranger Offshore Inc. According to the company, this sale reinforces Technip’s strategy to focus on its core North America subsea business lines of high technology an
