Project & Tenders
Subsea 7 Bags Rose and Stamford Decom Gig
Subsea 7 will provide decommissioning services for the second phase of Centrica’s Rose and Stamford gas field decommissioning programmes, located in the southern North Sea. This project is the latest call-off contract under a partnership frame agreement signed in 2005. Subsea 7 has partnership frame
Marathon Oil Awards Brae Engineering Contract to Ingen
Ingen Ideas, an Amec Foster Wheeler company, has landed a five-year multi-discipline engineering contract, worth approximately £8 million ($12 million) with Marathon Oil. The contract started in October 2015. It covers Marathon Oil’s Brae Complex in the North Sea and it has potential for two further
OSD Designs Two Austin Offshore RLWI/IMR Newbuilds
OSD-IMT, the UK division of Netherlands-based Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), is developing two IMT 9120 Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI)/IMR vessels for Austin Offshore, the shipping arm of Upstream Drilling, Singapore. The diesel-electric propulsion vessels are intended to carry out riserle
Tracerco Smart Tracers for Mariner Field
Tracerco, a subsidiary of Johnson Matthey, has secured a contract to provide smart tracer technology for flow measurement of six new wells in Statoil’s Maureen reservoir of the Mariner field in the UK North Sea. As part of field development, Tracerco’s smart tracers should enable fluid inflow measur
Shell starts construction of LNG bunker vessel
Royal Dutch Shell informed that STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has kicked off the construction of the specialized LNG bunker vessel with a steel cutting ceremony on Friday.
Seabird’s Northern Explorer Gears for Caribbean Shoot
Seabird will be sending its Northern Explorer on a seismic survey campaign in the greater Caribbean area, the company said on Monday. The M/V Northern Explorer, a 76 meters-long 2D/Source vessel, which joined SeaBird in 2005, is currently engaged in TGS Gigante survey offshore Mexico. Phase one of t
Lundin starts drilling ops on Imbok well off Malaysia
Lundin Petroleum’s subsidiary, Lundin Malaysia, has started drilling of the Imbok-1 exploration well in Blocks SB307 and SB308, offshore East Malaysia. The Imbok prospect is in shallow water and lies to the east and south of two major producing fields in offshore East Malaysia. Lundin says the well
IOG eyes Skipper well spud date
Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG), the North Sea-focused oil and gas company, has secured funds and set a spud date for its Skipper appraisal well, in the UK North Sea. Namely, on December 4, 2015, the company and its subsidiary IOG North Sea Limited entered into two loan agreements with GE O&G and
KrisEnergy spuds exploration well in Sakti (Indonesia)
KrisEnergy, an independent upstream oil and gas company, has announced that the KS Java Star jack-up rig has started drilling of the Mustika-1 exploration well offshore Indonesia. The well is located in the KrisEnergy-operated Sakti production sharing contract, in the East Java Sea. The company says
WGP Secures Ekofisk Seismic Gig
Thalassa Holdings’ marine geophysical services specialist, WGP Group (WGP), has entered into a contract to provide long term seismic acquisition services to ConocoPhillips Skandinavia (CoP). WGP will acquire seismic data sets on the Ekofisk field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. According t
Rijkswaterstaat Awards New Charter to Cefas Endeavour
The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has signed a new charter agreement with Rijkswaterstaat for the RV Cefas Endeavour. RV Cefas Endeavour is a 74 meter multi-disciplinary research vessel equipped to support a range of activities including hydrographic surveys, envi
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 01 – December 06). The Houston-based oilfield services major, Schlumberger, said it will further reduce its workforce in light of expected reduced activity for 2016. As a result, Schlumberger
EMGS Inks Brazil Data Deal
Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has entered into a data licensing agreement with an international oil company. The deal is for the provision of 3D EM data from the multi-client data library over the Foz de Amazonas and Ceara Basin in Brazil. The Foz do Amazonas Basin, situated in the Nor
Borssele I & II Tender Postponed
The call for tenders for Borssele sites I and II, planned to be launched this month, will be delayed until mid-January 2016. This was said by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, which explained it will wait for the discussion on the draft bill, called Stroom, in the Dutch Senate before launching