The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7324/8-2, in the Barents Sea. Well 7324/8-2 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 7324/8-2 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in produ
Norway’s Marin Teknikk has entered into a contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI), for design & engineering delivery for a new developed large Multipurpose Diving Support & Construction Vessel to Ultra Deep Charter Ltd. (UDS) in Singapore. The vessel will be of the MT6023 DSCV design, wi
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) President, Professor David Balmforth, has just paid visit to Teesport’s Quay 1 reconstruction project in Middlesbrough, UK. Contract for the reconstruction of Berth 1 was recently awarded to McLaughlin & Harvey and will increase Teesport capacity for larger v
The Port of Wells dredging project will resume next week. The dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the main channel North of number 6 buoy, between buoys 6 & 2. The Port’s dredger will be operating from Monday to Friday. Its normal area of work is in the main channel between
Statoil has reported that petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien is opening the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea today. The field was brought on stream on January 3, 2015. Expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of sev
Ezra’s subsea services division, EMAS AMC, has secured multiple new contracts from various oil and energy companies worth approximately US$55 million. Scope of work includes project support, inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR), subsea removal work of pipelines and structures, installation of bu
Bermuda-based vessel owner, Toisa Limited, has inked a deal with Qingdao Wuchuan Heavy Industry (QWHI) for the construction of two DP2 Multi-Purpose Offshore Construction & ROV Support Vessels (RSV’s), to be delivered in mid-2017. According to Sealion Shipping, the vessel design is by Salt Ship Desi
UK’s Petrofac has completed a project for Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd.’s Golden Eagle Development Area in the UK North Sea, delivered through its Plant Asset Management consulting business. This involved the development and implementation of a maintenance program for the Golden Eagle installation, locate
Iona Energy has informed that the four production wells at Huntington field, located in the UK North Sea, are now fully back on stream. The company previously reported that E.ON, the Huntington Operator, had notified of resumption of service from the Central Area Transmission System (CATS). Now that
GMC LTD has just completed the Basic Design of a self-installing Buoyant Tower for the Prinos Field Development for Energean Oil and Gas (Athens, Greece). The design brief was twofold to find a way to extend the life and utility of the existing Prinos infrastructure, and to find a cost effective and
N-Seatec Subsea Systems B.V. (Seatec), a provider of technical solutions and services to clients in On-and Offshore Industry, has secured two orders for its systems. The first one is a repeated order for Seatec’s complete Innova Matrix MK II+ system. The Matrix MK II is a stand-alone fibre optic mul
iXBlue is celebrating a sales milestone of more than 250 USBL systems since the introduction of POSIDONIA (very-long-range USBL) in 1999 and GAPS (pioneering single-enclosure USBL-INS) in 2004. Latest 4th-generation GAPS, with L/USBL and DP features, was delivered to SapuraAcergy, an engineering and
Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of Lithuania’s LNG terminal, said it has signed a preliminary agreement with JetGas of Estonia on station capacity reservation.
Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of Lithuania’s LNG terminal, said it has signed a preliminary agreement with JetGas of Estonia on station capacity reservation.
