Subsea 7, announced it has received a delivery of a consignment of acoustic release transponders and accompanying heavy duty release frames from Sonardyne International Ltd. The Oceanographic Release Transponders (ORTs) will be used, up to 17 at a time…
GE Oil & Gas announced today it will provide vital surface equipment to Mexico’s national oil company PEMEX Exploration and Production for use at its offshore project in the Ayatsil heavy oil field located in the Campeche Sound, in the Gulf of Mexico…
Technip has been awarded two contracts by Maersk Oil for the Valdemar and Roar gas lift project as well as the Rolf replacement pipeline project, on the Danish Continental Shelf, 250km offshore Esbjerg, Denmark. The scope of work will…
Russian based Rosneft announced a joint venture agreement regarding implementation of vessel, drilling rig, and marine equipment construction and design projects that was signed at the 21st World Petroleum Congress on 16 June. The joint venture was entered by Rosneft…
Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company that provides hammer services to install conductors and drive piles, announced that it successfully completed its first subsea piling services contract. CIS used its new remotely operated Subsea Piling System…
Subsea 7 has been awarded a more than US$50 million contract in the US Gulf of Mexico by Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas in support of its velopment of the KOQV and Holstein Deep fields. The work scope covers the installation of flexible pipelines and umbilicals for both fields…
Total's Martin Linge development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea took two steps forward this week, with the sailout of a 16,000-tonne jacket (pictured right) and the arrival of the Maersk Intrepid in Norway. The Maersk…
Statoil has outlined investment it is making to extend the life of its Gullfaks field out to 2040, including installing new loading buoys on the field. Statoil says 2.55 billion bo from the Gullfaks field have passed through the existing loading buoys since first oil in 1986…
Swiber Holdings Ltd. announced it has won an US$80 million engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract in Latin America. The client is undisclosed, but the contract covers subsea development work including pipeline tie-ins…
Greece-based Assodivers ordered an additional SMD Atom 100hp, 3000m-rated, work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) complete with launch and recovery system (LARs) from SMD. The new ROV system will be delivered 3Q this year and will…
Norway's Aqualis ASA has won several new construction supervision, transportation & installation and marine warranty contracts in Asia. The total contract value is approximately US$11 million. Aqualis Offshore in Singapore has been awarded…
Subsea 7 has been awarded its largest UK engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning (EPIC) services contract, by Premier Oil. The contract, worth more than US$460 million, will be for work on Premier Oil's Catcher Area development…
The 8500-tonne launch jacket for DONG's Hejre field offshore Denmark has sailed from Heerema Fabrication Group's Heerema Vlissingen facility in the Netherlands (pictured). HFG's contract, which was with Technip, covered the procurement and construction of a jacket…
Nexen Petroleum's Golden Eagle development living quarters [LQ] module sailed away from its fabrication yard yesterday, 19 May (pictured). The LQ module was designed and built by Sembmarine SLP in Lowestoft at its Hamilton Dock. The 2000-tonne module…
A McDermott International, Inc. subsidiary has signed a lease agreement with the Mississippi Development Authority and the Mississippi State Port Authority for the exclusive right to operate a spoolbase and marine operations base in the Port of Gulfport…