MMT (Marin Mätteknik AB) was awarded the 2011 Mareano survey contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service. The survey was commenced in April – August 2011. The survey included bathymetric data acquisition and processing in area Nordland VI in the Norwegian Sea outside the Nordland region, West of
GC Rieber Shipping and the subsea contractor Technocean has agreed on a one year extension of the charter regarding vessel “Polar Prince”. The time-charter with Technocean for the subsea vessel “Polar Prince” has been extended to September 2012. The vessel is engaged in subsea operations related to
Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (“GSP”) today announces buying the pipelay vessel Acergy Falcon from Subsea 7. Falcon is a highly versatile DNV classed pipelay vessel, 153 meters long, capable of installing rigid pipelines up to 14 inch diameter and also flexible flowlines and umbilicals. GSP expects to
Fluor Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract by Chevron Neftegaz–one of three project managers engaged by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium–for its recently announced expansion project. Fluor will provide project services for the marine terminal and supervisory control and data syst
DOF Subsea announces that it has been awarded, in joint venture with Technip, its second flexible pipelay contract by Petrobras. The second ever pipelay vessel built in Brazil, Skandi Niterói has been awarded a four and half year charter and service contract. The vessel will be used for flexible pip
Kongsberg Maritime announces an order of over £1 million from Fugro, the largest, world-wide integrated supplier of geoscience, survey, and geotechnical related services. Kongsberg Maritime will supply a range of its latest high resolution cameras and Mesotech scanning sonar systems as part of Fugro
Communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea has now been confirmed. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. If the upper part of the interval strikes pay dirt, th
The oil leak on a flow line system that serves the Shell-operated Gannet Alpha platform remains under control, with the well shut in. “It is not easy to quantify the total volume spilled but we estimate so far that it is around 216 tonnes (1,300 barrels),” said Glen Cayley, Technical Director of She
MAN Diesel & Turbo signed a contract on 7 July 2011 in Frederikshavn, Denmark for the supply of 4 × MAN 8L32/40 engines to power a seismic vessel ordered by Sanco Shipping of Norway. The vessel will be built by Kleven Maritime at Myklebust shipyard in southern Norway and is scheduled for delivery by
National Renewable Energy Centre Limited (“Narec”) Awarded Geophysical Survey Contract to EGS International Limited. EGS is to undertake a geophysical survey for the Blyth Offshore wind demonstrator project. EGS will: Provide vessels and equipment suitable for undertaking geophysical survey at site,
Paradigm Flow Solutions has undertaken work which increased production for a supermajor by over 3,000 barrels of oil per day using new groundbreaking technology. The Scotland headquartered company will be revealing how it has this summer cleared subsea pipelines that had been blocked for over a deca
Van Oord, the renowned, globally operating dredging, marine and offshore contractor from the Netherlands has engaged the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg for the final fitting-out and commissioning of its new flexible fallpipe vessel, “Stornes”. This special offshore vessel was transferred to the port of
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Subsea 7 for hire of SOFF’s offshore construction and support vessel (CSV) “Normand Oceanic”. The agreement is for a firm charter period of 3 years with 3 x 1 year option. Commencement is currently expected to be April 2012. The c
Nautical Petroleum plc announces that the Kraken 9/02b-5 pilot well, located in UKCS North Sea Block 9/2b, has successfully encountered oil in the Heimdal III sandstone interval. The pilot well was drilled to a total depth of 4,785 feet Measured Depth (MD). The top of the target Heimdal III reservoi
