Project & Tenders
Kongsberg IVCS Package for Nautilus Newbuild
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract with Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding for the vessel integrated control system to be used on Nautilus Minerals’ Production Support Vessel (PSV). The integrated vessel control system (IVCS) package comprises dynamic positioning, marine automation, information manage
Statoil: First building block for Johan Sverdrup installed
Norwegian oil giant Statoil has informed that the first piece of the Johan Sverdrup development has now been completed and installed on the field in the North Sea. It was Heerema Marine Contractors’ crane vessel “Thialf” that completed the installation of the 280-tonne pre-drilling template on the J
PGNiG secures cash to pay for new North Sea assets
PGNiG Upstream International AS (PUI), a subsidiary of PGNiG SA, executed a $400 million credit facility agreement with eight banks. The company said that the primary use of proceeds from the facility will be early payment of some of its outstanding debt, including the entire debt contracted to fina
IOG needs more time to buy Skipper (UK)
Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG), the North Sea focused oil and gas company, will need more time to secure funds for the acquisition of interest in licence P1609 in the UK North Sea containing the Skipper discovery. Namely, on June 3, 2015, IOG announced that it had signed a Sale and Purchase Agree
Soco: First oil flows from H5 platform offshore Vietnam
First oil and gas from the H5 Wellhead Platform (“H5-WHP”) of the Te Giac Trang (“TGT”) field in Vietnam started flowing on Monday following perforation of the first of the H5 development wells, Soco International has informed. The company has said the start of production has been achieved more than
Fugro Boosts Survey Services with EOMAP Deal
Fugro has extended its integrated survey services with a new agreement with global specialist EOMAP. The new agreement enables the creation of integrated bathymetric survey products that comprise elements from Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB), Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry (ALB) and traditional acoust
Hoegh LNG sells FSRU Hoegh Gallant to HMLP
Höegh LNG reached an agreement to sell the entity that owns the FSRU Höegh Gallant to Höegh LNG Partners for a purchase price of USD 370 million.
Kraken Sonar for ECA Robotics AUV
Kraken Sonar has been awarded a contract valued at over US$325,000 by ECA Robotics. Kraken will supply and help integrate its AquaPix Miniature Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Embedded Real-Time SAS Signal Processor on ECA Robotics’ (ECA Group) newest A18D Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
E.ON E&P drills duster in Norwegian Sea
E.ON E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 650, has completed drilling wildcat well 6507/3-11 S located in the Norwegian Sea. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 12 kilometres east of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea. Water depth at the site is 350 metres. The primary and secondar
Lundin in minor oil discovery in Luno II North prospect
Lundin Norge AS, operator of production licence 359, has completed drilling wildcat well 16/4-9 S on the Luno II North prospect in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The drilling has resulted in a minor oil discovery. The well was spud in June and drilled about 15 kilometres south of the Edvard Grieg f
Bestobell valves ordered for GasLog’s LNG newbuilds
Bestobell Marine informed it has won a major new order from Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea to supply valves for two new vessels.
Global Marine Executes CEM T&I for Tampnet
Global Marine Systems, a specialist in subsea cabling and engineering projects, has recently delivered a T&I (transportation and installation) of a Cable End Module (CEM) in the North Sea. Global Marine’s project engineering department was tasked by Tampnet with demands that included pre-planning, i
OSBIT Power Bags Another Helix Equipment Order
OSBIT Power has secured a contract from Helix Well Ops U.K. to deliver new support structures and deck equipment for two of its new well intervention vessels. The contract, worth several million pounds, is the latest in a series of projects to be awarded to the North East England-based company to su
OMM Puts Its New Subsea Tool to Work
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has successfully completed its contract in the German North Sea using its new tool, a multi-mattress deployment system the MDS3, to lay mattresses for client NSW. NSW is the main contractor for the manufacture and installation of export cable for the Gode Wind 1 offs