Lundin Norway AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to use Rowan Viking to drill production wells on the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea, Norway. Lundin Norway AS is the operator on the Edvard Grieg field in block 16/1 in the central North Sea, around 45 km south of
The Riga City Council Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Board of the Freeport of Riga Mr. Andris Ameriks and the Minister of Transport Mr. Anrijs Matiss have visited the site of the ambitious Krievu Island project to assess the infrastructure development progress. “Krievu Island project will be co
Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, has secured a major subsea contract with BP for the Quad 204 project, west of the Shetland Isles in the UK North Sea. The 7-year multi-million dollar contract will see Expro provide its latest design vertical xmas tree landing string for the in
ABB has won an order worth over $800 million from Scottish Hydro Electric (SHE) Transmission plc to provide the Caithness-Moray high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission link, which will connect the electricity grid on either side of the Moray Firth in northern Scotland. This follows a f
DONG Energy in Denmark and Nexans signed in July a new framework agreement for the delivery of up to 1,750 kilometres of submarine cables for wind farms off the British coast. The cables will be used for connecting turbines to each other and to the offshore transformer platforms. The framework agree
Prospector Offshore Drilling S.A. has announced that Total E&P UK Limited and ELF Exploration UK Limited has completed the preparation of the location for Prospector 1 drilling rig. Therefore, as of 5 September 2014 the rig is being compensated per its original contract at the mobilization rate. In
Technip has been awarded a substantial EPIC lump sum contract by BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC for the development of the Juniper project, to be located off the South East coast of Trinidad. The scope of work consists of design, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, load out and mechanical c
SpeedCast International Limited (SpeedCast), a leading global satellite telecommunications service provider, has been awarded a multi-year contract from Jan De Nul Group, a leading expert in dredging, marine construction, and specialized services for the offshore oil & gas, and renewable energy indu
The next phase of Eyemouth Harbor dredging operations (Gunsgreen basin and harbor entrance ‘canyon’) is about to begin, according to the Harbor Master. The hopper barge ‘MV Shearwater’ and dredging unit ‘Forth Reclaimer’ will operate within Eyemouth Harbor. For the duration of this operation all ves
The third shipment of four gates for the new locks of the Panama Canal Expansion has arrived to the Atlantic entrance of the waterway. The four gates were delivered on Sunday by the Post-Panamax vessel Xia Zhi Yuan 6, owned by COSCO Ocean Shipping. The shipment began its journey from Trieste, Italy
Hansa Hydrocarbons Limited (Hansa) has announced that it has successfully completed its large 3D seismic survey across the 4Quads licence blocks G18, H16, M3 and N1, offshore Netherlands. The survey covered approximately 965 square km and was located 40 km to the north of the Wadden Islands in the D
A series of new 1400 TEU container vessels being built for GNS Shipping GmbH & Co KG managed by Nordic Hamburg, will feature 7-cylinder Wärtsilä RT-flex50DF dual-fuel 2-stroke main engines. The ships are being built at the Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding yard in China, and are expected to be in operatio
Rosneft and PetroVietnam Oil and Gas Group have reached an agreement to create joint ventures for work at two blocks of the Pechora Sea shelf. Rosneft share in the JV will amount to 66.67%, and PetroVietnam will get 33.33%. The agreements were reached within the Agreement on general cooperation for
UK’s biggest ever coastal realignment scheme at Steart, a joint project between WWT and Environment Agency, has been completed. The construction of Steart Marshes means the Environment Agency can continue its maintenance of flood risk schemes elsewhere in the Severn Estuary that protect 100,000 home
