Prosafe has now signed a contract with Statoil Petroleum AS for the provision of the Safe Scandinavia semi-submersible accommodation vessel temporarily converted for tender support vessel operations at the Oseberg Øst installation on the Norwegian continental shelf. The three year firm period on sit
Subsea 7 S.A. has exercised its contractual option to extend its existing charter of the Havila Subsea for a further one year period to end of 31 December 2015. The contract has another one year option until 31 December 2016. The dayrate for the optional period is equal with existing rate. The Havil
A framework agreement aiming to use LNG bunkering vessels to develop the LNG bunkering market worldwide has been signed by GDF Suez, Mitsubishi and NYK. This partnership results in two first contracts: on behalf of the venture, the NYK’s order of an LNG bunkering vessel and an LNG bunkering contract
SMD has announced that the company has been selected to build Benthic’s PROD4 (Portable Remotely Operated Drill). Benthic, a global geosciences company, has announced plans to augment its PROD fleet with the contracted build of PROD4 expected to enter service in Q3 of 2015. PROD4 will be an enhanced
Atlantic Petroleum has announced that during the month of June, Atlantic Petroleum produced a net total of 38,000 barrels of oil equivalents (boe) from the Chestnut, Ettrick and Blackbird fields in the UK North Sea. The average daily production was 1,267 boe per day net to the Company. Production fo
The first phase of Exeter’s £30 million flood defence scheme will begin next month with improvements to the main flood relief channel. When finished the new scheme will reduce flood risk to approximately 3,000 homes and businesses throughout the city. The Environment Agency and its partners, Devon C
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M)’s wholly owned subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd and Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd have secured contracts worth a total of S$368 million ($295 million). The contract secured by Keppel Shipyard is for the conversion of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading
FoundOcean was awarded ‘Top Sub-Contractor’ status for the North Sea Edvard Greig development, following completion of the foundation grouting for the 134m jacket structure in May 2014. Saipem Project Manager David Fleet praised FoundOcean for their proficiency. “We wanted to recognise the thorough
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA, specialists in Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Surveying (CSEM), is using 6G technologies from Sonardyne International Ltd. to provide redundancy and improved precision in EM source positioning. The technology will also be used to position and retrieve EM seabed re
Last week Lukoil began transporting of the topside of the central processing platform (CPP) from Astrakhan to the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea, where construction of field facilities is underway at Vladimir Filanovsky field. The CPP is designed for the processing and platform-to-shore transport
With the foundation of a joint venture between REEDEREI NSB and offshore specialist OFFCON GmbH, the MPOV (Multi-Purpose-Offshore-Vessel) project with the newly developed vessel types MPOV-62 and MPOV-32 takes a major step towards becoming reality. The MPOV-Wind family is tailor-made to the requirem
A special monitoring system is helping protect water quality on the Somerset Levels and Moors where a major dredging operation is under way following severe flooding. The system, which was supplied by OTT Hydrometry and installed by Wavelength Environmental, is designed to protect the river ecology
Ashtead Technology, a global subsea equipment solutions specialist, has secured an exclusive sales distribution agreement with Sound Metrics Corporation for the sale of DIDSON and ARIS imaging sonar systems to the oil and gas market in the UK and Singapore regions. The DIDSON and ARIS products are u
Rosneft has started field works at five license blocks of the Barents and Pechora Seas: East Prinovozemelsky, located in the North-Eastern part of the Barents sea near the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Perseevsky, located in the North-Western part of the Barents sea, and at the South Russky, South Prin
