AKOFS Offshore, a part of Akastor ASA, has been notified of a five-year contract extension from Petrobras to use the Skandi Santos, a Subsea Equipment Support Vessel in Brazil. The extension, worth about $387 million (NOK 2.5 billion), will start March 1, 2015 in direct continuation of the current c
Production from the Manora field in the Gulf of Thailand will be delayed, Tap Oil Limited , a partner in the field has informed.
ExxonMobil and Rosneft have discovered oil at their controversial arctic well – the Universitetskaya-1.
Norway’s Statoil has closed production from its Aasgard A offshore field due to rough weather in the Norwegian Sea.
Ghana’s Minister of Transport, Mrs Dzifa Ativor, recently expressed her satisfaction on the ongoing development works at the Tema Port that will improve the port’s operations and meet international standards. The expansion projects, which started in 2013 at the cost of $120 million, is being execute
Technika Podwodna, from Poland, has been awarded a diving equipment supply contract by Skarb Pazstwa – Inspektorat Uzbrojenia. Under the contract, Technika Podwodna will deliver small magnetic diving equipment: Cylinder for the type of O2 oxygen decompression HOOKAH GAS SUPPLY camera type CRABE, Mix
Woodfibre LNG Export and Guangzhou Gas Group have signed a memorandum of understanding concerning potential LNG offtake of 1 mtpa of the chilled gas for 25 years starting in 2017. The LNG will be sourced from the Woodfibre LNG project, which is being developed in the District of Squamish by Woodfibr
Höegh LNG of Norway said that Spain’s Gas Natural has extended the charter period for LNG Libra. The 126,000 cubic meter LNG carrier was chartered to Gas Natural until year-end 2014, and now the contract has been extended for further 12 months with redelivery at year end 2015. The EBITDA contributio
AG&P ALE Ventures Pty Ltd., an Australian-based consortium, has deployed its proprietary mobile port solution, the Hydro Deck, to deliver the first modules to the Northern Territory’s largest-ever construction project, the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project. Over the course of the project, the Hydro
Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director, Curtis Foltz addressed more than 1,300 attendees during the 2014 State of the Port address, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Savannah, Ga. and reported 1,900 new jobs and 2.7 million square feet of industrial expansion tied to a year of strong growth at the GP
Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has received contract awards from two undisclosed clients for two 3D marine seismic acquisition projects offshore Australia. The combined program, subject to the execution of service contracts, will commence in Q4 2014 and is expected to run for approximat
Dutch owner of offshore support vessels Vroon has announced the steelcutting ceremony for VOS Patriot vessel took place today, 25 September, at COSCO Guangdong Shipyard in China. The ceremony was performed by Mina Ntemagkou, Vroon Newbuilding Superintendent. VOS Patriot is the sixth in a series of P
Indonesian shipbuilder SteadFast Marine is about to finish construction of a $21.9 million worth dredging vessel, the first of its kind ever built outside Europe. This state-of-the-art dredger is scheduled to be launched in early October with the delivery set for December 2014. Having a capacity of
Marine Assets Corporation has announced the successful launch by undocking of its 4th Compact SemiSub (CSS) named Themis at Fujian Mawei Shipyard, Fuzhou, SE. China. Themis is following the launch of two other CSSs, Olympia and Venus. To remind, the CSS Olympia was delivered by MAC Offshore to GranE
