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Deep Sea inks global work in multiple deals

Apr 25, 2016

Deep Sea Supply has been awarded multiple contracts by several international oil companies for work in the North Sea, offshore Asia, and South America. Statoil awarded Deep Sea a two-year contract, plus three yearly options for the PSV Sea Falcon for operations in the North Sea…

Cross Group wins Trinidad gig

Apr 22, 2016

The Cross Group has won a contract to assist in pulling five flexible flowlines and an umbilical, with a maximum expected load of 44-tonne, onto a jacketed platform. The work will be performed using one of Cross Group’s Hepburn 83-MPE…

Saipem, DESFA enter MoU

Apr 22, 2016

Saipem has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with DESFA, the national natural gas system operator in Greece, for cooperation on onshore and offshore gas projects within the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean regions. Saipem and…

Viking Supply Ships closes Canadian office

Apr 20, 2016

Viking Supply Ships will close its office in St. John’s, Newfoundland effective 28 April 2016. Future commercial activities in the Newfoundland and Eastern-Canada region will be followed up closely by dedicated personnel from the Viking…

ITF JIP undergoes field trial

Apr 20, 2016

V-IR, a new technology system designed to identify the location of electrical faults on subsea installations, is undergoing a shallow water trial at Portishead Quays marina.  Established through The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)…

DOF supports Eni's OCTP project

Apr 20, 2016

DOF Subsea has been awarded more than US$61.6 million (NOK 500 million) in IMR and subsea installation contracts in several regions, including key work on Eni's OCTP project offshore Ghana. DOF was awarded an FPSO mooring installation…

PGS, TGS survey available for Canadian bid round

Apr 20, 2016

PGS, in partnership with TGS, will offer support for the two calls for bid in the Eastern Newfoundland and Jeanne d’Arc regions issued on 7 April 2016. The partnership offers for license MC2D GeoStreamer data, and the 4550sq km MC3D-NL02-EN Orphan Basin GeoStreamer survey…

Transocean delays 2 UDW drillships

Apr 19, 2016

Transocean, has opted to delay delivery, and final payments, on two dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater (UDW) drillships currently under construction at Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Jurong Shipyard.   The proprietary Jurong Espadon…

Sequa drops Gina Krog, Ivar Aasen deals

Apr 19, 2016

Sequa Petroleum is dropping out of two deals to acquire stake in the Gina Krog and Ivar Aasen projects in the North Sea due to the current market conditions. Image of Ivar Aasen, from Det Norske…

Beach exits BMG JV

Apr 18, 2016

Beach Energy and Cooper Energy have accepted an offer from the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (NOPTA) to convert the Basker, Manta and Gummy gas field permits VIC/L26, 27, and 28 (BMG joint venture) in the offshore Gippsland Basin into retention leases…

Sakhalin Energy, Ampelmann sign Icemann agreement

Apr 18, 2016

Ampelmann and Sakhalin Energy Investment signed an agreement to install and operate a winterized version of an Ampelmann’s motion compensated gangway system. This system is designed to be capable of safely and efficiently transferring work crew in temperatures down to -28˚C…

RS completes survey of MODU pair

Apr 18, 2016

The repair of the Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye, sixth generation semisubmersible mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), have been completed under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Shipyard in Yantai…

NGE in Karoon Gas investment

Apr 18, 2016

Australia-based upstream company New Guinea Energy (NGE) has made an investment of some US$2.7 million (AU$3.55 million) in Karoon Gas Australia, representing about 18% of the company’s net assets. NGE, focused in Papua New Guinea (ONG)…

Statoil to drill Norwegian wildcat

Apr 14, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wells 30/11-12 S and 30/11-12 A in production license 035 (PL 035), part of block 30/11 in the Norwegian North Sea. Well 30/11-12 S is wildcat well that…

Weatherford's Sakhalin project saved rig time

Apr 13, 2016

In late February, Weatherford completed a drilling and reaming project near Sakhalin Island, Russia, that resulted in a total of 52 hours in rig time saved. The operator contracted Weatherford to enlarge a 3641ft (1110m) hole section from 8…

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