Reach Subsea has signed a contract with an international company for the vessel Dina Star. The contract starts in June and has a duration of 4-6 months. The offshore operations will take place primarily in the High North areas. Dina Star has ice class 1B and De-Ice and will under this contract serve
Specialist Subsea Services (S3), Aberdeen-based provider of ROVs and survey services to the oil and gas and renewable industries, has signed a charter contract with EDT Offshore for the EDT Hercules vessel. The three year agreement, which comes with two additional one year extension options, will al
DNV GL has been awarded a three years contract, and two one year extension options, involving operations and project verification for all Apache’s North Sea assets; Beryl A & B and Forties A, B, C, D & E. DNV GL has had a long history on the Beryl Alpha and Bravo installations, which have been opera
Gazprom is getting ready to ship the first oil cargo from its oil platform located in the freezing waters of the Pechora Sea. According to Reuters, which cited sources familiar with the matter, an oil tanker has been loaded and is awaiting final approval to sail away with the oil taken from the Prir
From 3 to 5 February 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of ExxonMobil Exploration and Production AS at Jotun B platform. The objective of the audit was to verify that ExxonMobil’s management and follow-up of barriers complied with the company’s and the authorities’ requ
IKM Subsea has been awarded a 1+1+1 year contract by Statoil ASA for ROV drill support service. The contract includes ROV services onboard Maersk XLE 3. Maersk XLE -3 is a jack-up rig which will perform drilling at the Gina Krog field. “The fact that Statoil rewarded us with our second drill support
Recently Jumbo signed a Contract with Subsea 7 for the provision of the FPSO Mooring Piles and Ground Chains Installation for the Dana Western Isles Development Project (WIDP). Installation of the mooring piles and chains will be done by Jumbo’s Fairplayer, a Dynamically Positioned Heavy Lift Vessel
TTS Group said that it has entered into a contract with a Greek company to supply anchor and mooring winches for two LNG carriers. The company also secured three other contracts to supply side-loading systems and winches. The total values of the contracts are NOK 110 million. The deliveries will tak
Ceona announced the completion of a new USD$290 million secured debt facility to finance its two new build projects, the Ceona Amazon vessel and the Polar Onyx Vertical Pipelay System (VLS), along with performance bonds to further support the company’s growth initiatives. The new debt facility will
DeepOcean UK, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded a significant contract, for trenching services on the Western HVDC Link project. The contract was awarded by Prysmian Group. DeepOcean’s scope of work includes pre-lay survey, pre-lay grapnel run, post-trench survey and trenc
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent to use the Island Frontier well intervention vessel at Tune field, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. In addition to the fields which were included in previous consents, a need has arisen for well intervention work at Tune. In response to an application
The State Expert Review Commission reached a positive conclusion regarding the Design Documentation for the Russian Sector of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. This concludes the final stage of the review process for the Design Documentation, which also includes the environmental impact assessment
Dril-Quip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Dril-Quip (Europe) Limited, serving the North Sea, Europe and Africa regions, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $110 million, to supply subsea completion systems and related services for an FPSO development project. In accordance with the contrac
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured a US$316 million (339.3 billion won) order from Sovcomflot to build an ice-class LNG tanker to transport liquefied natural gas produced at the Yamal LNG project in Russia, DSME said in a filling to the stock exchange. DSME pla
