Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has informed that the Atwood Eagle semi-submersible drilling rig has been released from the previous location and is en route to the Phoenix South-1 well location within the WA-435-P exploration permit, offshore W. Australia. The company said it would release the next ann
Italy’s Ministry of Defence (Ministero della Difesa Segretariato Generale della Difesa e Direzione nazionale degli armamenti Direzione degli Armamenti Navali) has issued a tender for the supply of an echo sounder for their vessel ‘Magnaghi’. Ammiraglio Magnaghi is a research/survey vessel and it is
The Goliat FPSO will depart the Hyundai yard in South Korea in early 2015, a decision taken at a licence meeting on Friday 16 May, Eni Norge has reported.
GAC Russia is underlining its commitment to offshore oil & gas exploration and extraction in the Black Sea with a major project to upgrade its facilities at the port of Novorossiysk. The Black Sea is one of the areas in which the development of fields looks set to boom as Russian oil majors are gran
Polarcus Limited, a UAE-based owner of seismic survey vessels announced a drop in revenue for the first quarter 2014. The company said that the effects of the challenging market conditions at the end of 2013 spilled over into the start of 2014, as the Company recorded lower revenues during the quart
The Finnish Transport Agency (FTA), a government agency operating under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, has issued a tender invitation for the provision of hydrographic surveys in Finnish lake areas of Lake Saimaa. As FTA announced, the results of these hydrographic surveys will be use
DOF Subsea UK Limited, a leading provider of integrated subsea solutions, has been awarded a contract by Maersk Oil UK to undertake replacement of the Dumbarton Drill Cluster Centre (DCC) flexible production riser at the Global Producer 3 FPSO located in block 15/20 of UK sector North Sea. The work
Tullow Oil Norge AS has received consent for exploration drilling using the Borgland Dolphin mobile drilling facility to drill well 31/10-1 in production licence 507, offshore Norway.
DONG Energy Wind Power A/S has contracted SPT Offshore for the installation and engineering of the suction buckets for demonstration tripod suction bucket jacket (SBJ) foundation for the Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm. The suction bucket jacket foundation will support a 3.6 MW Siemens wind turbine gen
Statoil’s executive vice president for Development and Production Norway, Arne Sigve Nylund, together with Margareth Øvrum, executive vice president for Technology, Projects and Drilling, presented Statoil’s views on what it takes to achieve profitable production from the Norwegian Continental Shelf
Atlantic Petroleum UK Limited announces that Centrica Energy on behalf of the Chestnut joint venture (Licence P.354) has entered into a further agreement with Teekay Hummingbird Production Limited, to secure the use of the Hummingbird Spirit FPSO until the end of March 2017 (from the current March 2
International energy consultancy Xodus Group and Dutch innovation company TNO will co-ordinate a Joint Industry Programme (JIP) of multiphase flow induced vibration in the integrity of offshore piping systems. Xodus Group and TNO will co-ordinate key industry players BP, Shell, Statoil, Total, Lundi
MMT has been awarded the SK4 & NorNed protection survey contract by Statnett, Norway. This contract is divided into two separate projects and include detailed high-resolution offshore ROV surveys and cable tracking. MMT has also been contracted for a geophysical and geotechnical survey of a cable co
DOF Subsea AS, a subsidiary of DOF ASA, has been awarded several contracts, with a total value of approx. NOK 475 million ($80 mil.). In the Asia Pacific region, DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts including IMR services and subsea installation work. The contract awards will secure utiliza
