Aker Solutions has acquired the Norwegian companies Subsea House and SSH Engineering and plans to further expand and recruit 50-100 people in Stokke, located in the Vestfold county of Norway. The transaction value is undisclosed. Subsea House and SSH Engineering, currently owned by Subsea Holding, e
ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global maritime industry, has established the American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Professor Ronald W. Yeung ha
A barge carrying the latest technology for generating electricity from ocean power has been launched from Fairhaven’s Union Wharf on Friday, reports the South Coast Today news portal. The barge has been deployed to Muskeget Channel, where it will test a tidal current generator. Due to a narrow passa
Helix Energy Solutions Group announced an oil discovery at the Danny II exploration well at the Bushwood Field located in Garden Banks Block 506, approximately 145 miles offshore from Galveston, Texas. The Danny II exploration well encountered more than 70 feet of high quality net pay. Johnny Edward
Gulmar Offshore Limited, the international subsea contracting specialist, announced the transformation of its business under the Iremis brand with a strengthened Board and management team focused on becoming a leader in world class subsea IRM (inspection, repair and maintenance) services. As part of
EFC Group, a leading designer and manufacturer of instrumentation, monitoring, handling and control systems for the global oil and gas industry, has delivered a highly innovative mechanical handling contract to provide a Rigless Intervention System for Baker Hughes. Following a brief from the oilfie
Wright’s Well Control Services (WWCS) completed a riserless subsea plug & abandonment (P&A) using tubing to pull out of the hole from a Multi-Service Vessel (MSV) in 1,250’ WD in the Gulf of Mexico. DOF Subsea USA provided marine and subsea services. New tools where custom engineered specifically fo
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Technip to supply a Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) reclamation plant for the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia. The contract value is approximately NOK 485 million. The scope of work includes system engineering and supply of key equipment for the MEG plant an
CGGVeritas announced that it has started acquiring its first StagSeisTM dual-vessel, long-offset multi-client full-azimuth (FAZ) survey in the Keathley Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). This 221-block (5150 sq km) full-fold 3D seismic data survey, known as IBALT, will take approximately 6-
Barnstaple and Aberdeen based engineering firm J+S recently returned from exhibiting at the Global Offshore Wind Conference and Exhibition at the Excel Centre in London. This is the first time that J+S have demonstrated their capabilities to the offshore wind market. J+S’ focus for the offshore wind
Technip was awarded a contract by Marathon Oil Norge AS for on-going expansion of the subsea drill centres at Kneler B and Volund located in the Alvheim area in the North Sea. The water depths in the area is around 120 meters, and the subsea work will be performed by use of remotely-operated vehicul
Jan De Nul Group receives new offshore contracts in Australia, Russia, Canada and the Barents Sea. New sites with a total value of more than 500 million Euros were added to the order book of Jan De Nul Group during the past month. The assignment for Chevron for the installation of the Wheatstone pip
The tanker RFA Darkdale was sunk by a German U-boat and was the first British ship sunk south of the equator. She was hit with four torpedoes whilst at anchor off Jamestown, St Helena in October 1941. As she lay in 40 meters depth, her hull is starting to show signs of leaking oil into […]
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded two projects for Saudi Aramco in the Arabian Gulf in the Karan, Safaniya and Zuluf fields. The values of these contracts are included in McDermott’s second quarter 2012 backlog. The first project, Karan-45, c
