SeaRoc Group, a specialist provider of marine and engineering services for offshore renewable energy projects, has successfully completed the first major maintenance visit to Forewind’s Dogger Bank meteorological (met) masts in the North Sea at the beginning of June. The East (DB-MME) and West (DB-M
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has won the contract to provide a comprehensive range of mooring services to Maersk Drilling for its sixth generation, semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Discoverer. DSM will now design, engineer and install the mooring system for the advanced rig. “This is the first time we
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and SAAM S.A. (SAAM) have announced that they have successfully created a joint harbor towage operation within the American Continent in Brazil, Mexico, Canada and Panama. The intended partnership, which is between SMIT, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boskali
Prosafe has now signed a contract with Statoil Petroleum AS for the provision of the Safe Scandinavia semi-submersible accommodation vessel temporarily converted for tender support vessel operations at the Oseberg Øst installation on the Norwegian continental shelf. The three year firm period on sit
Subsea 7 S.A. has exercised its contractual option to extend its existing charter of the Havila Subsea for a further one year period to end of 31 December 2015. The contract has another one year option until 31 December 2016. The dayrate for the optional period is equal with existing rate. The Havil
The West Seahorse oil project, in the offshore Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, has been granted access to Federal Government Major Project Facilitation (MPF) services, recognising the project’s national strategic significance. Warren Truss Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has amended the public notice for the proposed dredging of the Guilford Harbor Federal navigation project in Guilford, Conn., and extended the public comment period until July 16. Guilford Harbor is located in New Haven County within Long Island
A framework agreement aiming to use LNG bunkering vessels to develop the LNG bunkering market worldwide has been signed by GDF Suez, Mitsubishi and NYK. This partnership results in two first contracts: on behalf of the venture, the NYK’s order of an LNG bunkering vessel and an LNG bunkering contract
SMD has announced that the company has been selected to build Benthic’s PROD4 (Portable Remotely Operated Drill). Benthic, a global geosciences company, has announced plans to augment its PROD fleet with the contracted build of PROD4 expected to enter service in Q3 of 2015. PROD4 will be an enhanced
Salamander has announced the spud of the North Kendang-2 exploration well (“NK-2”), a re-drill of the North Kendang-1 (“NK-1”) well in the South East Sangatta PSC, offshore Kalimantan, Indonesia. Salamander has a 75% operated interest in the South East Sangatta PSC. NK-2 will be drilled to a depth o
Nido Petroleum Limited on behalf of SC 63 Joint Venture partners PNOC-EC and Dragon Oil (SC 63 Philippines) Limited said today that the Baragatan- 1A well as at 2 July 2014 was currently at 2,457 meters Measured Depth (2,152.9 meters TVD subsea). Since the last update on 23 June 2014, continuing for
Atlantic Petroleum has announced that during the month of June, Atlantic Petroleum produced a net total of 38,000 barrels of oil equivalents (boe) from the Chestnut, Ettrick and Blackbird fields in the UK North Sea. The average daily production was 1,267 boe per day net to the Company. Production fo
China Shipping Development (CSDC), a unit of China Shipping Group, has decided to order three LNG carriers for the Yamal LNG project in Russia, the company said in a statement. CSDC said that the shipbuilding contracts and the time charter deals for the three LNG carriers will be officially signed t
On June 27, 2014 Byron Energy Limited advised that at 4.00 pm on June 26 2014 ,USA Central time, the Byron Energy SM6 #1 BP01 well was reestablishing complete circulation in preparation to trip out of the hole and resume operations. Circulation was re-established at a depth of 7,424 feet (2,263 metr
