Island Offshore has taken delivery of its 10th vessel of Rolls-Royce UT 776 CD design, built at Vard Brevik in Norway. M/V Island Condor is a flexible offshore support vessel with good sea-keeping capabilities, excellent station keeping performance and low fuel consumption, Island Offshore said. It
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) have joined forces to boost marine research activities, education and technology at Gran Canary. The three partners signed an agreement at the
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given Statoil consent to use the Songa Dee semi-submersible drilling rig for production drilling on Gullfaks satellites, well template P, in the North Sea. The PSA says that the consent entails an extension of an existing consent for Songa Dee at Gullf
Black & Veatch and Emerging Fuels Technology signed a cooperation agreement to improve the alternative/renewable transportation fuels industry.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a New York City-based, non-profit international environmental advocacy group, has informed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected yesterday (November 12) a Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. and Shell Offshore Inc. lawsuit that attempted to pre
QGEP Participações S.A. (QGEP), has disclosed the production estimate for the Manati Field, located on the coast of Bahia state, Brazil. According to the press release, the company projects 2015 production for the Manati Field to be approximately 5.5 million m³ per day, being 2.5 million m³ per day
Shell has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents for well plugging at Draugen, in the Norwegian Sea. Draugen is an oil field in the Norwgeian Sea in 250 metres of water. A/S Norske Shell (Shell) is the field’s operato
AMEC plc and its subsidiary AMEC International Investments BV, have announced today that the offer to purchase all of the issued and to be issued registered shares of Foster Wheeler AG has been successfully completed. The company says that all conditions to the offer have been satisfied. AMEC is mak
Technip has been awarded a contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the K2 Riser Base Gas Lift project, located in Green Canyon 608 in the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of approximately 1,300 meters. Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas, USA, will conduct the overall project managem
PA Resources has been provisionally awarded Blocks 22/18c and 22/19d, located in the North Sea Central Area, in the UK’s 28th Seaward Licensing Round. PA Resources has been awarded these blocks as part of a group comprising of PA Resources (25 percent), E.On (40 percent), Cairn Energy’s wholly-owned
McDermott delivered the riser support structure for the Inpex-operated ichthys LNG projects.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed the award of the $57.6-million contract to the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company for a coastal and storm damage reduction project extending from the southern end of Ocean City to Strathmere and Sea Isle. The project, which entails the construction of
Rockhopper Exploration and Premier Oil have agreed to adopt a phased, lower cost development solution for the Sea Lion field in the North Falkland Basin, off Falkland Islands. According to Rockhopper Exploration these are the highlights of phased development concept: – Initial phase to commerciali
GTT signed a technical service agreement with Palumbo Malta Shipyard awarding the company rights to carry out maintenance and repair works in membrane type cargo tanks of LNG carrier
