Project & Tenders
Fugro Bags Survey Work Offshore Guyana
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, an ExxonMobil affiliate, for survey services at a deepwater field development offshore Guyana. The contract provides for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical survey and an environmental baseline survey, a
Alphatron and Van Oord Sign Maintenance Agreement
Alphatron Marine today announced the signing of a 3-year global maintenance agreement with Van Oord. The contract is for the maintenance and support of all navigation and communication equipment on board Van Oord’s fleet of more than 80 vessels. Van Oord – specializing in dredging, offshore oil & ga
Oceaneering Orders Sparrows Under-Rollers
Sparrows Group, and its cable and pipe-lay solutions (CPLS) division, has been awarded a contract by Oceaneering to design and manufacture two 500-tonne powered and jack-able under-rollers. According to the company, the new under-roller system is suitable for use with reels of up to 11.4m outer diam
VIDEO: Royal IHC Splashes TSHD JUN YANG 1
The naming and launch ceremony of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) JUN YANG 1 took place on Saturday, 19 December 2015, at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The dredger is being built for CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co., Ltd (GDC), and the ceremony was performed by Ms. Li We
Stone: Amethyst well comes online in January
Stone Energy, an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, has announced that its Amethyst well, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, will come online in January 2016. According to Stone’s operational update from Monday, the Ensco 8503 deep water drilling rig concluded completion op
GLDD and USACE Continue Broadkill Beach Project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has just released an aerial photo of the ongoing project to deepen the federal channel of the Delaware River and use the material to build a dune and berm at Broadkill Beach, Delaware. This project involves dredging as needed within the existi
Chevron inks LNG supply accord with China Huadian
Oil and gas giant Chevron on Monday said its unit, Chevron U.S.A., signed a non-binding LNG supply heads of agreement with China Huadian Green Energy.
IOG takes on Skipper operatorship
Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG), the North Sea focused oil and gas company, now owns 100% of licence P1609 which contains the Skipper discovery, in the UK North Sea, and is the licence operator. Namely, IOG completed the acquisition of 50% of the licence from Alpha Petroleum Resources. As IOG prev
Normand Vision Takes On Its First Renewables Job
Ocean Installer has been awarded an offshore wind contract with Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH. “We are very pleased that we are able to secure a very interesting project within the offshore renewables wind market and demonstrate our capabilities on such a project,” says Steinar Riise, CEO Ocean In
Downer Wins Next Phase of Leith Flood Protection Scheme
Work on the next phase of the Leith Flood Protection scheme improvements in north Dunedin will start next month, according to the Otago Regional Council (ORC). ORC director engineering, hazards and science, Gavin Palmer said that Downer EDI Works Ltd. has been awarded the contract to complete planne
MAN duel-fuel engines ordered for Heerema’s NCSV
MAN Diesel & Turbo recently signed a deal to provide dual-fuel propulsion system for a new DP3 semi-submersible crane vessel (NSCV) built by Sembcorp Marine in Singapore for Heerema Offshore Services.
CGG Calls on ISS Services for Brazil Campaign
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the maritime and logistics service provider, has signed a contract with CGG to provide offshore agency support services for a new oil and gas exploration project in the Barreirinhas Basin in the equatorial margin of northern Brazil. CGG is conducting the multi-clien
India: Cochin Shipyard fit to build LNG carriers
India’s Cochin Shipyard has completed all requirements to be licenced by France’s GTT to build LNG carriers with the Mark III membrane containment system, according to India’s ministry of shipping.
Statoil looking at Schlumberger’s Campeche seismic data (Mexico)
World’s largest oilfield services company Schlumberger has executed a contract with Norway’s Statoil for a large part of WesternGeco’s Campeche wide-azimuth (WAZ) deepwater multiclient seismic survey in the southern Gulf of Mexico, off Mexico. The license also includes collaboration with WesternGeco