After the exceptional rainfall and storms of last winter, the Environment Agency has completed a record number of repairs to flood and coastal defenses across Devon and Cornwall and is urging communities to make sure they are ready if flooding happens this year. As well as repairing flood defenses,
Technip has won a contract with Statoil ASA for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) Marine Operations Pipelay and Subsea Installation project. The project is an option to the Snøhvit CO2 Solution project awarded in 2013. The GRD project scope consists of a subsea tie-back to a new Wye piece on an existi
Gippsland Ports, designated waterway manager of 1,431 sq km of some of the largest and most beautiful waterways in Australia, is seeking offers for the supply of a suitable Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD). The supply (new/existing) is for service (time charter), or lease (bareboat charter) ar
Searcher Seismic in cooperation with BGP, announces a major multi-client seismic campaign in the Offshore Canning Basin, consisting of ~16,000 km of newly acquired 2D data and ~10,000 km of reprocessing. The Bilby Non-Exclusive 2D seismic survey comprises of approximately 16,000 km of 2D long-offset
As operator for Dansk Undergrunds Consortium (DUC), Maersk Oil has drilled the exploration well Siah NE-1X (5505/7-17) in the western part of the Danish North Sea. The well is dry. Siah NE-1X was drilled as a vertical well. The primary target was deep water deposits in the Upper Jurassic. No produci
Norwegian seismic player, Dolphin, has been awarded a 3D seismic contract in West Africa for an undisclosed client. The award follows recently announced two major 3D seismic projects in India. Dolphin plans to utilise one of its high-capacity 3D seismic vessels. The survey is scheduled of approximat
Plexus Holdings has received a purchase order (‘PO’) from Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (‘Det Norske’) to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for Geopilot#2, an oil and gas appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen development project, offshore Norway. Geopilot#2 will be the seventh Det Norsk
The governments of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador and NSP Maritime Link Inc., a subsidiary of Emera, today participated in a ground-breaking ceremony at the Bottom Brook construction site in Newfoundland and Labrador to recognize the start of construction of the Maritime Link Project. Nov
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to continue to use facilities on the Tune field, located in the North Sea, until 2020. Tune is a gas condensate field located around ten kilometres west of Oseberg in the northern part of the North Sea. Statoil is the fiel
For week commencing 1st December 2014, the “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the access channel at the Outer Harbor, announced today the Port of Wells. Vessels entering or exiting the harbor should call the “Kari Hege” when working, on channel 12 or harbor staff if it’s not worki
Woodside has entered into a contract for an exclusive Reconnaissance Licence (RL) with the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines, the National Oil Company of the Kingdom of Morocco, to explore a block offshore Morocco. The block, known as the Rabat Ultra Deep Offshore area, comprises a tota
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has been selected as MAC for LNG Canada project.
The National Park Service (NPS) has announced that it will reopen the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail from Frazee House to Station Road Trailhead now through Sunday, November 30. NPS will close the trail from Frazee House to Station Road Trailhead from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, December 1 to Friday,
Vroon Offshore Services has informed that on November 22, 2014 the company’s AHTS vessel, VOS Champagne, was delivered to Chevron Thailand to start a four-year charter. Vroon says that VOS Champagne replaces VOS Atlas, which has been employed by Chevron for the past month. VOS Champagne is a Focal-6
