Project & Tenders
Expro Nets Well Testing Contract in UK North Sea
Expro has received a five year contract extension for surface well testing services across several assets for an operator in the UK North Sea. The $5 million (£3 million) contract includes the clean-up of existing wells and the testing of a series of newly drilled wells and is due to begin later thi
UK: i3 Energy confirms lenders support for Liberator development
i3 Energy has received an indicative proposal and confirmed support from two UK lenders for a senior secured credit facility to fund its Liberator field development in the North Sea.
GLDD Takes Delivery of ATB Hopper Dredge Ellis Island
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has taken delivery of the new build ATB hopper dredge Ellis Island and tug Douglas B. Mackie after successful completion of United States Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping regulatory sea trials. David Simonelli, President, Dredging Division comm
PHOTO: Heerema cuts first steel for Statoil’s Peregrino II jacket
Heerema Fabrication Group has cut first steel for the Peregrino II jacket, marking the beginning of the construction phase for the Statoil-operated project.
Wärtsilä tech ordered for Viking Line’s new LNG ferry
Finish technology group, Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply engines and equipment for Viking Line’s LNG-fueled ferry being built by at the Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry yard in China.
Well-Centric Nets Chrysaor North Sea Contract
Well-Centric has secured a contract worth up to £300,000 per year with independent exploration and production company, Chrysaor. The one-year contract, which has two, one-year extension options, will see Well-Centric provide offshore services across three North Sea platforms: Lomond, Everest and Arm
MMT Begins Aquind Interconnector Survey
MMT has started an offshore geophysical survey for the Aquind Interconnector project. The works will involve a geophysical survey of the proposed cable corridor between the landfall areas near Portsmouth in England and near Dieppe in France. MMT will utilize two vessels, M/V Franklin for offshore wo
Public Sediment Plan for San Francisco Bay
SCAPE Landscape Architecture has just released renderings and images of the Public Sediment, a living infrastructure proposal for the San Francisco Baylands that will invest in marshes and mudflats to buffer vulnerable communities and ecosystems from the threats of sea level rise. The proposal is de
Mubadala ditches Thai well
Mubadala Petroleum has abandoned an exploration well located in the G1/48 concession in the Gulf of Thailand.
Top News of the Week, 13 – 19 November 2017
BiFab Crisis: Workers Rally at Scottish Parliament as Unions Urge SSE to ‘Rein In’ SHL The trade unions supporting BiFab workers have called on SSE to ‘rein in’ the contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) and save 1,400 jobs in Fife and Lewis. On 16 November, SSE issued a statement saying that, as a 1
Appraisal at Mexico’s billion-barrel offshore find to start in 2018?
Appraisal drilling of Mexico’s first private offshore oil discovery Zama-1 is expected to begin in late 2018, at the earliest.
¡VAMOS! – First Stage Testing Complete
UK-based subsea engineering specialist Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) has successfully completed first stage testing in a pioneering project which is set to uncover valuable European mineral resources. SMD is technical lead on the ¡VAMOS! (viable alternative mine operating system) project, a 42-mon
Wison, Shanghai Electric partner up on LNG power barge
Wison Offshore & Marine signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation with Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group on medium to large-scale floating LNG power generation barge.
North Cove Dredging Project in Full Swing
Maintenance dredging of the North Cove Federal Navigation Project in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, is in full swing now, according to the State Senator Paul Formica. The $4.2 million contract will be performed by Donjon Marine Company, Inc. of Hillside, New Jersey. Commenting the project overseen by th