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Bergen Group to buy Scanmet

Feb 12, 2014

Bergen Group Hanøytangen is in takeover talks with the owners of Norwegian decommissioning firm Scanmet AS. Bergen Group says Scanmet AS is among the oldest and most experienced companies in Norway that carry out decommissioning of oil installations in the North Sea…

Maersk Denmark uses Plexus

Feb 12, 2014

Plexus Holdings has been awarded its first contract with Maersk Oil’s Danish business unit to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the Danish North Sea. The initial value of the contract is about £1…

DeepOcean goes geotechnical

Feb 12, 2014

Norway headquartered DeepOcean Group has moved into the offshore geotechnical services market by acquiring ageotechnical drilling rig and agreeing a strategic alliance with Swiss firm Geoquip Marine. The strategic alliance will see the…

Ocean Installer gets dredging gig

Feb 11, 2014

ELF Exploration UK Ltd., an affiliate of Total E&P UK Ltd., has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for dredging services at the West Franklin field. The work scope involves excavation/dredging services at 93 metres depth to remove the…

TGS inks European deals

Feb 11, 2014

Norwegian geoscience firm TGS has signed a Letter of Award with WesternGeco to charter the high-capacity 12-streamer vessel M/V Geco Eagle for 3D multi-client projects in Northwest Europe during the 2014 summer season. The charter will…

Stimulating vessel investment

Feb 10, 2014

Baker Hughes' Blue Orca in the Southern North Sea. Photo Courtesy of Baker Hughes In the early 1980s, the North Sea saw a spurge in stimulation vessels by the big three oilfield services contractors…

Deltamarin on Kraken FPSO

Feb 10, 2014

Deltamarin has signed a contract with Bumi Armada for the basic design of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. The move comes after Bumi Armada secured a contract to supply the FPSO to operate on EnQuest's Kraken field…

Brent platforms go to Able UK

Feb 10, 2014

Able UK has been awarded a contract for the disposal of four offshore structures from the Shell operated Brent field in the North Sea. The contract will see three platform topsides, as well as a 138m-high steel platform jacket, transported from the Brent field…

Wintershall renewing Plexus contract

Feb 10, 2014

Oil and gas engineering services business Plexus Holdings has announced an agreement to renew for an additional three years a supply contract with Wintershall Noordzee for surface wellhead and mudline equipment services in the Dutch North Sea…

UK's North Sea drilling plummets, Norway's rises

Feb 05, 2014

The number of fields which began producing oil and gas in the UK hit its highest level for five years in 2013, as a number of operators focused on development activity. This is according to the latest report into offshore activity from Deloitte…

Zamakona launches Ocean Marlin

Feb 04, 2014

Spain's Zamakona Yards has launched its second Havyard HY820-design field support and emergency response vessel, the Ocean Marlin. The vessel, which is due to work in the North Sea for French oil major Total from Q2, is the second of three vessels Zamakona Yards will launch…

Solberg drilling starts

Feb 03, 2014

The Solberg prospect, operated by Germany's Wintershall (35% equity), is 4km northeast of the Tyrihans field and 8km southeast of UK-based explorer Faroe Petroleum’s Maria discovery (2010). Drilling is being carried out using the…

Worley gets Martin Linge gig

Feb 03, 2014

Rosenberg WorleyParsons has been awarded a hook up and commissioning contract by Technip for the Martin Linge platform (concept pictured, right), operated by Total E&P Norge in the Norwegian NorthSea. The estimated contract revenue to Rosenberg WorleyParsons is US$92 million…

Boskalis wins Statoil jackups deal

Jan 31, 2014

Royal Boskalis Westminster subsidiary, Dockwise, said that it has won several contracts throughout January 2014, worth a total of US$65 million. Statoil awarded the largest contract to the firm, for the transportation of two jackup rigs from South Korea to Norway…

Huntington resumes production in UK

Jan 31, 2014

During Q4 2013, Iona produced on average 3280 boe/d as Huntington ramp-up continued to increase following the previously announced curtailment of production by the operator of the Central Area Transmission System from mid-September to late November 2013…

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