The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/8-2. The 7219/8-2 wellbore will be drilled from the West Hercules rig. The drilling program for wellbore 7219/8-2 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 608. Statoil Petroleu
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract from DONG Energy for the jack-up Maersk Resolve for drilling operations in the Danish North Sea. The contract is expected to commence in August 2013 in direct continuation of its current contract in the UK. The duration of the new contract with DONG Energy
In November 2011 Fassmer and Fugro signed the contract for the new 40m „Fugro Helmert”, a new Offshore Survey Coastal Vessel for hydrographic and geotechnical tasks in worldwide operation. Fassmer was assigned to design and build the vessel in a time period of 20 months. The delivery is scheduled fo
The Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) has approved Cairn’s farm-in as Operator with a 38% working interest (WI) in two exploration licences (FEL 2/04 and FEL 4/08) and one licensing option covering 2,753 km2 in the Porcupine Basin offshore We
Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services company, Bumi Armada Berhad announced that its wholly-owned Russian subsidiary, Bumi Armada Caspian LLC signed a supplementary agreement worth RM567.6 million (USD178.5 million) with OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft (“Lukoil”) for EPIC (engineering
Rocksource ASA announces that the Group has signed an agreement with Explora Petroleum AS in which Explora will acquire a 10 per cent interest in Production Licence 559 in the Norwegian Sea. Further, Explora has an option to acquire an additional 30 per cent interest prior to a potential future dril
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of three contracts from Petrobras with a combined value (at the time of contract signature) of approximately US$1.6 billion for the construction and operation of three new-build flexible pipe-lay support vessels (PLSVs). The work scope of each of these 5 year contra
IHC Hydrohammer, part of IHC Merwede, has announced that it will supply piling equipment for the offshore foundation installation of two European offshore wind farm projects to Ballast Nedam Offshore. The long-term rental agreement between two leading companies in the offshore wind energy market is
Global supplier of fluid transfer systems FES International has won a £2m contract to supply BG Norway with 6 Automatic DBSCs. FES will supply an array of Automatic DBSCs to contractors NOV/Subsea 7 for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel operating in the Knarr field, in the
In a recent tender procedure JDR Cables secured a £330,000 contract from Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) for the design, manufacture and delivery of a submarine cable connecting the DeltaStream unit to the shore. An initial 400KW full scale single turbine unit will be installed as part of the first phase
Harkand, the international subsea inspection, repair, maintenance (IRM) and light construction group, has secured a contract with Maersk Oil North Sea Ltd. It will see the DP2 multi-purpose vessel the Relume deployed to conduct subsea inspection of the operator’s floating production units and floati
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea has reportedly won a tender to build up to 16 ice-class liquefied natural gas tankers for Russia’s Yamal LNG project. The agreement also allows transfer of rights to finance the tankers’ construction to third parties – shipping companies
Subsea 7 has extended the contract for Skandi Neptune with one year from March 2014. Skandi Neptune is a contruction support vessel, capable of operating in water depths up to 3,000 meters. The vessel is equipped with a 250 mt crane and 2 ROVs. Press Release, July 04, 2013; Image: Subsea 7
Chiyoda Corporation (“Chiyoda”) and Xodus Group (Holdings) Limited (“Xodus Group”) announce that they have formed a strategic capital alliance, with Chiyoda having acquired the majority of shares in Xodus Group from the previous investors, Sunrise Xodus B.V. and Simmons Parallel Private L.P. The inc
