Project & Tenders
Coretrax Delivers Decom Campaign with Hess
Coretrax, a wellbore clean up and abandonment specialist, has completed a three-year decommissioning contract with operator Hess Corporation for the first designated abandonment campaign of its kind. The project began in 2012, involving 30 well abandonments at the FFFA and IVRR fields in the UK Nort
iSURVEY Positioning for Total’s Offshore Ops
iSURVEY, a provider of survey and positioning services to the oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecommunications markets, has secured a framework contract with Total E&P UK for the provision of rig move navigation and positioning services. Starting October 12, 2015, the three year framework con
Songa Equinox rig in Norway preparing for Statoil contract
Songa Offshore, an offshore drilling contractor, informed on Wednesday that the Songa Equinox rig had arrived in Norwegian waters on October 22, 2015. Songa Equinox is the first rig in a series of four Category D rigs specifically built for and contracted to Statoil. The rig will start its eight-yea
Hydro Group’s Connection Systems for MeyGen Tidal Energy Project
Aberdeen-based Hydro Group has secured a contract with Atlantis Resources to supply connection systems for the MeyGen tidal energy project. More than £50 million has been raised to finance the initial stage (phase 1A) of the 398MW tidal array project in the Pentland Firth, Scotland, which involves f
Forty years of Forties field (UK)
It has now been four decades since the first oil was produced from Forties Alpha platform in the UK North Sea, and transported via the Forties Pipeline System to the onshore Terminal at Cruden Bay, UK. Apache Corporation, the operator of the field on Tuesday informed of the milestone. Situated 177 k
Kriegers Flak Tender Specs Release Delayed
The preliminary tender specifications for Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm are delayed, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has informed. The tender material was scheduled to be published in October 2015, but the DEA said it now expects to publish the tender material in mid-November 2015. The agency publ
Subsea in October
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The month of October marked announcements from some of the major subsea players including Subsea 7, Technip and Saipem. The trio managed to secure new contracts i
VIDEO: MAHURY Legacy Continues
A 1,840m³ capacity twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) MAHURY – built by Royal IHC at MTG Dolphin – was named last week in Varna, Bulgaria. The new TSHD is Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging’s fourth IHC-built vessel. Dutch Dredging named the vessel after its tradition of reusing t
MRC in Johan Sverdrup Deal
MRC Global has secured contracts, through its Norwegian subsidiaries, MRC Teamtrade and MRC Energy Piping, to support Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup project in the North Sea. MRC Energy Piping will supply the pipe, fittings and flanges (PFF) to the processing and riser platforms of the Johan Sverdrup proj
Engie signs two LNG deals in China
Engie of France signed two agreements in Beijing with China Huaneng Group and Beijing Enterprises Group.
Providence gains extension to Barryroe licence (Ireland)
Providence Resources, the Irish based Oil and Gas Exploration Company, has been granted an extension to its Standard Exploration Licence (SEL) 1/11 that contains the Barryroe oil field and is located offshore Ireland. The licence is operated by Providence’s wholly owned subsidiary Exola Limited that
VNG drills duster in Norwegian Sea
VNG Norge’s Blink exploration well in the Norwegian Sea has failed to unearth oil and gas. The objective of well 6406/12-5 S was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Upper Jurassic reservoirs analogous to the Pil, Bue, Boomerang and Draugen field reservoirs. According to Faroe Petroleum, a partn
MMT Scoops Kriegers Flak Cable Route Survey Gig
Swedish marine survey specialist, MMT, has been awarded a contract for a survey job related to Kriegers Flak’s subsea cable route. As part of the Kriegers Flak (KF) Combined Grid Solution (CGS) the Danish TSO Energinet.dk and the German TSO 50Hertz Transmission GmbH is preparing the installation of
Sospan Dau Departs Chichester
Boskalis Westminster dredger Sospan Dau has just completed maintenance dredging of the approach channel to Chichester Harbor and beach nourishment at Hayling Island. The approach channel to the harbor was dredged, targeting areas where the shingle material has naturally built up which could otherwis