The engineering and services group Bilfinger has won an order for the installation of a total of 72 foundations for the new Sandbank Offshore Windpark. Sandbank is a joint partnership of Vattenfall (51 percent) and the city of Munich’s public utility company (49 percent). The foundation elements wil
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and appraisal company, has announced that 3D seismic surveying operations have started on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 1/14 (‘Spanish Point South’) in the northern Porcupine Basin, offshore west of Ireland. The water depth across t
Fastnet, the UK and Irish listed E&P company focussed on near-term exploration and appraisal acreage in Morocco and the Celtic Sea, has announced that it has entered into an amended exclusive option agreement with PSE Kinsale Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PETRONAS, in relation to the
North Energy ASA and Noreco Norway AS have entered into an agreement on swapping interests in production licences. These transactions mean that North Energy acquires 15 per cent of PL 484 in the Norwegian Sea and transfers a 10 per cent holding in PL 616 in the North Sea to Noreco. PL 484 contains s
Providence Resources P.l.c., ( the Irish oil and gas exploration and appraisal company has announced that 3D seismic surveying operations have begun on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 1/14 (‘Spanish Point South’) in the northern Porcupine Basin, offshore west of Ireland. The water depth across th
Dolphin has been awarded a contract extension of approximately 50 days on an ongoing 3D seismic project in South America. Andy Phipps, President Dolphin Western Hemisphere, commented: “We are very pleased that, our good performance in South America this year is providing us with additional opportuni
Zenith Energy, an Aberdeen-based well company, has agreed a three-year non-exclusive deal with London based, Tullow Oil. Zenith Energy will provide a variety of well engineering services for Tullow Oil on an ad-hoc basis. Tullow Oil has over 140 exploration and production licences across 24 countrie
Marin Teknikk has entered into an agreement with the Chinese company Cosco (Dalian) Shipyards Co. Ltd. (CS) about delivery of Design and Engineering for four large Multi-functional Subsea Support vessels plus options for an additional pair of vessels. Ten months ago, Marin Teknikk entered an agreeme
TTS Group’s Gothenburg-based unit TTS Marine signed a contract with China’s Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering (NACKS) for delivery of cargo access equipment to two car carriers. This contract concerns the complete deliveries to two 3,800 units LNG-driven car carriers which are currently under const
GPS asset tracking provider TerraMar Networks entered into an agreement with Energy Perspectives, expert consultancy in natural gas based in Norway, to collaborate on innovative global analytics services for the LNG market. iGIS/LNG is the first, combined real time tracking and business application
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, has been awarded a contract for delivery of Extended Concept Study and Pre-Front End Engineering Design (FEED) to the Statoil Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea. The project comprises the development of t
VSMC, a strategic joint venture of VolkerWessels and Boskalis, has been awarded a $120 million (€ 90 million) contract by Sandbank Offshore Windfarm GmbH (a joint venture of energy companies Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München). The scope of work for VSMC includes cable supply, CPS, installation, post
INTECSEA’s UK office has been awarded the subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for Maersk Oil UK’s Culzean ultra-high-pressure, high-temperature development in the North Sea. The Culzean development is one of the largest gas discoveries of recent years in the UK North Sea, located
INTECSEA’s UK office has secured the subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for Maersk Oil UK’s Culzean development in the North Sea.