McDermott has completed the first of two offshore campaigns for Reliance KG-D6 R-Cluster subsea field development, in the Krishna Godavari Basin, located off the East Coast of India. The campaign included McDermott’s piggy-back pipelay in S-lay mode (18-inch plus a 4-inch) offshore India in approxim
DOF Rederi has been awarded three long-term contracts by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia for the multi role vessels (MRVs) Skandi Hugen, Skandi Nova and Skandi Marøy. The contracts have a duration of 5 years, with further 3 x 3 yearly options. The contracts are scheduled to start in Q4 2019 and Q1 2020.
Sonardyne International’s underwater intruder detection technology has been selected to secure the coastal perimeter of a critical national energy infrastructure (CNI) facility in Eastern Europe. The Sentinel Intruder Detection Sonar (IDS) will be deployed to detect unauthorized divers and subsurfac
Oilfield services company Expro has acquired technology company Quality Intervention. The Norwegian-based company was founded in 2008 and provides a portfolio of innovative products and services – coiled tubing technology (CoilHose), annular integrity technology (Well Spring) and innovative in-situ
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has appointed Andy Seymour to its governing board. Seymour is the global director Operational Excellence at Fugro based in the Netherlands. He has a strong technical background coupled with financial, commercial and management expertise, the co
i3 Energy has awarded Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), contracts for its 2019 summer drilling programme on its Liberator and Serenity assets and its 2020 Phase I development of Liberator. BHGE’s scope will include directional drilling, drilling fluids, mudlogging, formation evaluation operations a
Proserv has sold its through-water digital acoustic communications and positioning systems business, Nautronix, to Imenco, a Norwegian supplier of subsea electronic and mechanical products. The divested unit will become a division within Imenco, which will continue to be known as Imenco UK. The exac
Bibby HydroMap has appointed Gary Collins as its new CEO. Collins joins the team on the July 1, 2019 to lead the business through their next phase of growth and development. Collins was most recently a Global Sales Director of OptaSense who deploy technology that uses acoustic sensing on pipelines,
Conoco Phillips, on behalf of the licensees, has submitted a Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the re-development of the Tor field in the Greater Ekofisk area in the North Sea. The field was in production from 1978 until it was shut down in 2015 when the installation reached the end of it
Jumbo’s Fairplayer has completed the pre-installation and tensioning of a shallow water CALM buoy mooring system for the Mersa El-Hamra terminal offshore Egypt. Jumbo’s scope included the pre-lay of 10 Stevshark drag anchors and 6 chain moorings and the subsequent tensioning of the mooring legs up t
OKEA and partners, Petoro and Neptune Energy Norge, have agreed to continue exploration licence PL958, east of the OKEA-operated Draugen field. The decision comes six months after OKEA assumed operatorship. This commits the licence partners to acquire new 3D seismic data and they have already decide
DP World has acquired Topaz Energy and Marine from Renaissance Services SAOG and Standard Chartered Private Equity / Affirma Capital for an enterprise value of $1,079 million. Topaz, with a contract backlog of $1.6 billion as of 31 March, operates a fleet of 117 vessels, predominantly in the Caspian
Lamprell has held a steel cutting ceremony in the UAE for jacket foundations for the Moray East offshore wind farm project. Lamprell will fabricate 45 out of approximately 100 jacket foundations required for the wind farm, the company informed through social media. Lamprell secured the fabrication c
Nord Stream 2 has withdrawn its application for the route through Danish territorial waters south of Bornholm, thus terminating a more than two-year lasting procedure. “We felt obliged to take this step because in more than two years since we filed this application, the former Danish government has
