Project & Tenders
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 19 – October 25). Boskalis Subsea Services has opened an office in Aberdeen dedicated to focus on growing business in the UK sector in the offshore and renewable industry. The office is also b
PGS Takes USD 110 Mln Loss
Oslo-listed seismic player, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), has posted net loss of $110 million for the third quarter of 2015, compared with $8.4 million profit in the corresponding period in 2014. In the third quarter of 2015, the company recorded revenues of $225.7 million (out of which $120.4 milli
EIVA, Marine ONE Ink Representative Agreement
EIVA and Italian Marine ONE signed a representative agreement to include EIVA hardware and software solutions for offshore construction and subsea surveying operations in Marine One product portfolio. Last week, EIVA announced that the Brazilian company MACSEA had joined the network of EIVA represen
Dolphin Returns Two Seismic Vessels to Sanco
Dolphin, a provider of marine seismic services, has received a Notice of Time Charter termination for the two vessels Sanco Swift and Sanco Sword. The new operator of these vessels will be another seismic player-PGS. The company announced today that it has entered into charter agreements leading to
BP strikes LNG supply accord with China Huadian
BP and China Huadian Corporation signed a sale and purchase agreement for up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year worth up to $10 billion over the next 20 years.
New Gear for Van Oord’s Dredger
Bakker Sliedrecht – specialized in the design, production, installation and maintenance of complex electrical installations – will be taking care of an electrical conversion project on board Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger Volvox Terranova. The company recently received order for the engi
XPO Logistics signs LNG fueling deal with BOC
XPO Logistics informed it has signed a fueling contract with BOC for its LNG-powered truck fleet in the United Kingdom.
Moray Council Dredger Christened
The Moray Council’s new £2.4 million dredger is to be named MV Selkie. The name was chosen by members of the council’s economic development and infrastructure committee yesterday. It was selected from a shortlist drawn up from more than 300 suggestions submitted by children from coastal schools in M
Centrica to develop Butch as subsea tie-back to Ula
Operator Centrica Energy Norway and partners have decided that the Butch discovery in the North Sea will be developed as a subsea tie-in to the Ula field. According to Centrica’s press release, with the selected subsea tie-in concept the Butch well stream will be transported to the BP operated Ula p
Final Meeting Held on Shoreham Adur Scheme
The Environment Agency recently held two final public exhibitions on Shoreham Adur tidal walls scheme. The scheme that will reduce the risk of flooding to Shoreham-by-Sea and Lancing is being developed jointly by Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Adur District Council, West Sussex
Marathon Oil’s Alba platform shaping up
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has shared a photo of the topsides for Marathon Oil’s new Alba B3 platform, loaded on a seagoing barge in Zwijndrecht yard in the Netherlands. Preparations are now under way for a sail away to the Heerema Vlissingen yard, where the lower part of the platform, the jack
Money Secured for IJmuiden New Lock
Rijkswaterstaat and the OpenIJ consortium – consisting of BAM-PGGM, VolkerWessels and DIF – have reached financial close for the contract to design, construct, finance and maintain a new sea lock at IJmuiden. Construction activities will be carried out by a BAM Infra and VolkerWessels joint venture.
DNV GL grabs in-service deal for Ichthys LNG
DNV GL informed it has secured a contract to provide in-service verification and classification services to a range of facilities at the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.
Scottish LNG ferries construction deal signed
Caledonian Maritime Assets and Ferguson Marine Engineering have signed the shipbuilding contract, worth £97 million, to build two 100m dual-fuel ferries.