Dolphin Drilling Ltd., a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA, has entered into a Letter of Award for the provision of the semi-submersible Borgsten Dolphin with an undisclosed client for a three well drilling program in the UK sector. The contract is expected to commence mid March 2012. Estimated c
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom may sign new gas contracts with Belarus in November, the firm said on Thursday, after talks which also covered… (energydelta) [mappress] Source: energydelta , October 14, 2011
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $36 million from oil services company Aker Solutions to provide drives and transformers to their subsea power distribution system for the Asgard subsea oil and gas field operated by Norway’s Statoil. The order was b
GDF Suez (GSZ) SA is in talks with Germany’s EON AG to bid together to supply as much as 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind power capacity… (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, October 14, 2011
Leighton Holdings Limited today announced that its subsidiary Leighton Offshore had been awarded a major contract by Iraq’s South Oil Company. The US$518 million contract forms part of the Crude Oil Export Facility Reconstruction Project (the “Sea Line Project”), which is financed and supported thro
Leighton Holdings Limited today announced that its subsidiary Leighton Offshore had been awarded a major contract by Iraq’s South Oil Company. The US$518 million contract forms part of the Crude Oil Export Facility Reconstruction Project (the “Sea Line Project”), which is financed and supported thro
Leighton Offshore today announced the award of an additional Single Point Mooring (SPM) contract by Iraq’s South Oil Company (SOC). The SPM contract worth US $79.85m is in addition to the $799m Phase 1 Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) scope currently underway. The work will be undert
Dockwise Ltd. today announces its second project for the new-build vessel Dockwise Vanguard. Directly following the transportation of the Jack & St. Malo platform to the Gulf of Mexico in 2013, the Dockwise Vanguard will return to Korea to load and transport the Goliat floating, production, storage
An agreement has been signed for the construction of the first Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) import terminal in Pakistan, with a 400-500… (porttechnology) [mappress] Source: porttechnology, October 13, 2011
ConocoPhillips has purchased Marathon Oil Co.’s 30 percent interest in the Kenai natural gas liquefaction plant the two companies have owned since 1969, a ConocoPhillips spokeswoman confirmed Oct. 11. The purchase was completed Sept. 26 but was not announced, according to Natalie Lowman, the spokesw
Aurora ROV Systems Ltd. of Lower Sackville has scored a $475,474 contract to supply a pair of remotely operated mini-subs to the Canadian… (thechronicleherald) [mappress] Source: thechronicleherald, October 13 , 2011;
A comprehensive two-day underwater examination conducted by Transocean and the US Coast Guard (USCG) on October 4th and 5th confirmed that there are no hydrocarbons leaking from of the sunken Deepwater Horizon or the riser, the pipe that linked the rig to the well head before the Macondo accident la
Australia’s Minister for Defense Stephen Smith and Minister for Defense Materiel Jason Clare have announced that the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) will lease the subsea operations vessel Windermere from Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, to reinforce the RAN’s amphibious capability dur
BP and its partners are developing four new oil and gas projects that together will involve a total investment of almost £10 billion in the UK’s oil industry over the next five years and help to maintain BP’s production from the North Sea for decades to come. The UK Government today granted BP and [
