Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell an additional 15 percent interest in PL359, which contains the Luno II discovery. Lundin Norway will sell a 15 percent interest to W
After taking part in a competitive tender process, CARIS announces that Le Havre in France has chosen to implement CARIS Bathy DataBASE and Spatial Fusion Enterprise for the management and distribution of their bathymetric data. The harbour of Le Havre, or Grand Port Maritime du Havre, is located in
For the week commencing 7th July 2014, the Port of Wells dredging scheme will resume in the main channel. The Port’s dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the main channel north of number 4 buoy, between buoys 4 and 2. All material dredged from these areas will be placed on t
VSMC has been awarded a EUR 110 million contract by Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, owned by Norwegian companies Statoil and Statkraft, for the export and inter-array cabling for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm. VSMC will start in 2015 by performing two 1,100-metre horizontal directional drillings at
MAN Rollo signed a contract to supply three generator sets to the Fassmer shipyard in Berne, Germany. Fassmer is building the new Helgoland ferry for the operator AG Ems. The Helgoland Ferry is being built in accordance with the environmentally-friendly “Blue Angel” standard. The ferry will use LNG
Statoil will increase the Oseberg Øst field recovery rate by means of a drilling campaign starting up in the summer of 2015. On Wednesday 2 July it was made public that Prosafe Offshore has been awarded a contract for the use of Safe Scandinavia in connection with this campaign. Support vessel Safe
Paradigm Drilling Services has made two key appointments to strengthen its support team across the globe. Paradigm Drilling Services, which is based at Thainstone, near Inverurie, has appointed Tony Robertson as business development manager for Europe, Scandinavia and West Africa, and Craig Martin a
N-KOM of Qatar inked an agreement with HeLenGi Engineering for the retrofit of Greek ferries as part of the Poseidon-Med project. The contract was signed during the Posidonia event, which was held from 2-6 June at the Metropolitan Expo in Athens. HeLeNGi Engineering is a company providing expertise,
From 11 March 2014 to 16 June 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips. The audit focused on the company’s preparations and plans for permanent plugging and abandonment of the wells at Ekofisk 2/4 in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The objective of the
Working with Jumbo Offshore since January 2014, IKM Subsea now expands the partnership with Jumbo Offshore. IKM Subsea is contracted to deliver another Merlin WR200 WROVs in addition to the system already onboard. The contract includes personnel, project specific tooling, and survey service onboard
Tullow Oil plc has announced that the Hanssen wildcat well, in production licence 537, offshore Norway, has encountered a 20-25 metre oil bearing sandstone with good reservoir properties in the main target (Stø Formation). The Hanssen well was drilled about 7 kilometres northwest of the Wisting Cent
Golar LNG Limited said that, following a successful follow-on equity offering, it has executed and made effective key agreements for conversion of the 125,000 m3 LNG carrier Hilli to a floating liquefaction vessel (FLNGV). The primary contract for the FLNGV was entered into with Singapore’s Keppel S
Genel has failed to find oil at its Hagar Qim 1 well, offshore Malta, a partner in the block has reported.
SeaRoc Group, a specialist provider of marine and engineering services for offshore renewable energy projects, has successfully completed the first major maintenance visit to Forewind’s Dogger Bank meteorological (met) masts in the North Sea at the beginning of June. The East (DB-MME) and West (DB-M
