A new fast ropax ferry ordered by the Estonia-based Tallink Grupp for its Tallinn – Helsinki route, will feature Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines running primarily on liquefied natural gas. The ship is to be built at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland and is scheduled to be in operation from the beginnin
UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG) has yesterday completed the acquisitions of interests in offshore licence P1916 (offshore Isle of Wight) and onshore licence PEDL 126 (containing the Markwells Wood oil discovery). The licence interests acquired by UKOG comprise: A 7.5% interest in P1916 from Egdon (E
Sterling Resources Ltd. has announced that the second oil production well (P2) in Cladhan field, in the UK North Sea, is currently being completed with the drilling rig expected to demobilize within the next two weeks. According to Sterling, the well encountered a reservoir section which was thinner
ConocoPhillips has decided to cancel the development project for the Tommeliten Alpha discovery, offshore Norway. According to Aftenbladet, a Stavanger-based paper, the company has decided to shelf the $2 billion development in the Norwegian North Sea due to the low oil prices. The newspaper says it
MacArtney Underwater Technology and Sea-Bird Scientific have joined forces to deliver four oceanographic instrumentation solutions to research vessel operators in Turkey. According to MacArtney, Turkish research clients procured a combination of MacArtney CORMAC Q winches and Sea-Bird Scientific CTD
Reach Subsea has entered into a contract with an undisclosed international client for the vessel Edda Fonn. The vessel will conduct operations in the Mediterranean, the company informed. The operations will start on April 1, and the period is firm for 120 days, plus 60 days options. “We are satisfie
Residents will get another opportunity to see beaches from Holland-on-Sea to Clacton spectacularly recharged with sand. The Sospan Dau vessel was back on site yesterday (Monday March 9) as phase two of the £36 million coastal protection scheme gathers momentum. The sand is literally being blown asho
Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) is building one of the largest oil refining plants in the world. The refinery will be constructed on land reclaimed by Van Oord in ‘sabkha area’, a salt plain near the coast some 30 kilometers north of the Saudi border. The project involves dredging and recla
French oil company Total could give it another shot with searching for gas offshore Cyprus, the Mediterranean country’s energy ministry has said. To remind, it was reported in January this year that Total would not proceed with exploration in its 10 & 11 offshore blocks southwest of Cyprus, as it wa
BOA IMR AS, a BOA Offshore AS subsidiary, has entered with certain conditions, into a shipbuilding contract for a light construction / IMR vessel with NorYards Fosen AS, with delivery scheduled for spring 2017 from its yard in Fosen, Norway. The vessel with main dimensions of 108 x 24 meters is desi
Ocean Installer has signed amendments with Statoil for umbilical marine installation at the Visund field and for riser replacement at the Troll B field. The work will be executed under the SLMP Marine Installation Contract. “We are pleased to have secured more work for a key client like Statoil. The
Ocean Installer has signed amendments with Statoil for umbilical marine installation at the Visund field, and for riser replacement at the Troll B field in the Norwegian North Sea. The work will be executed under the SLMP Marine Installation Contract. “We are pleased to have secured more work for a
MMT was contracted by OMM (Offshore Marine Management) to perform a geophysical, geotechnical and cable crossing surveys in preparation for the installation of the COBRAcable on behalf of end client TenneT. The COBRAcable route (appr. 325 km) is proposed to be laid across the Southern North Sea conn
Capricorn, a subsidiary of Cairn Energy will delay the appraisal well drilling at the Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/04, which is located in the Spanish Point area, 175 km off the west coast of Ireland in the northern Porcupine Basin. The well was originally planned for 2015. Capricorn is the
