Atlantic Offshore has announced that their vessel, Ocean Sky, has been awarded ERRV contract with Norske Shell. The contract will start in direct continuation of the excising contract, and is 12 month firm with 6 monthly options. Ocean Sky has under the frame agreement worked 15 years for Norske She
Rem Offshore takes delivery of large construction vessel, Rem Pioneer. This is a fifth delivery so far from Kleven in three months. Build no. 364 from Kleven Verft has been delivered today, June 6, to Rem Offshore ASA. The 117 m long vessel is the largest in Rem’s highly modern offshore fleet, and w
Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has issued tender invitation for the maintenance dredging and disposal of contaminated sediment at Dunmore East Fishery Harbour Centre (DEFHC). The work will comprise of dredging to the design dredge depths illustrated on the tender drawings a
In pursuit of an ambitious strategy to grow employees and geographical reach, Ramboll has acquired Apply Altra in Aberdeen. Up until the acquisition, which was officially signed in Norway last week, Apply Altra has been part of the Apply Group. With the formal shift in ownership on 2 June, the name
Technip Offshore Wind has successfully completed contractual work on the installation of 43 array cables on the Borkum wind farm, located 45 kilometers North from the German island of Borkum in the North Sea. The project was the first to use the CBT 1100 Trenching System, which improved cable burial
Waterschap Hollandse Delta (WSHD), a Dutch regional water authority covering the south of Zuid Holland, is seeking a contractor to conduct waterways dredging works. The framework agreement in the Ridderkerk area is for the rural dredging of navigational waterways. The tender is divided into lots and
BW Offshore has received a contract extension for the FPSO BW Athena with Ithaca Energy. The primary term of the contract expires in Q2 2015, and Itacha Energy has exercised the option for a secondary term of up to five years. Ithaca Energy has the right to terminate the contract on a rolling 12-mon
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA has received a signed contract from a repeat customer worth NOK 10 million (USD 1.7 million) for 3D EM data acquisition in the Barents Sea. The survey is done in June, using the vessel BOA Thalassa. BOA Thalassa is a purpose-built 3D EM vessel with the capacity to car
Malaysian Group Tanjung Offshore Berhard and Bourbon Far East Pte. Ltd. have entered into exclusive discussions for the sale of 51% ownership of nine BOURBON Offshore Support Vessels operating in Malaysia. In parallel, Tanjung has invited Bourbon to become a shareholder in their company. Both partie
For the week commencing 9th June 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
Ocean Rig UDW Inc., a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, has signed definitive documentation, following the previously announced contract award, for the 6 year contract for drilling operations offshore Angola. The contract is for its ultra deepwater drillship the Ocean Rig Skyr
On 4 June, two new compressors were lifted aboard the Troll A platform in the North Sea. Once the compressors are up and running next year, they will boost recovery from Troll by more than 83 billion standard cubic meters of gas. As gas is produced on the giant Troll field, pressure in the reservoir
Statoil has fully resumed oil production from its Snorre B platform in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. According to Reuters, the news of the oil output resumption was first shared by the Stavanger-based newspaper, Aftenblad. Production from a subsea template at the Snorre B platform was shut do
The WGP Group has completed a survey in the North Sea. This is the fifth Life of Field Seismic survey to be carried out using the Group’s Portable Modular Source System over this oil field. As per previous surveys, the PMSS™ was mobilised on a field platform supply vessel that was converted into a se
