Global shipping, logistics and marine services provider GAC Group has announced the appointment of Bengt Ekstrand as its new Group President.Ekstrand will take over in January 2013 from Capt. Lars Säfverström who has held the position since July 1998…
EMAS has secured two contracts with South Korean clients worth a combined total of approximately US$200 million.EMAS' subsea division (EMAS AMC) was awarded an EPCIC contract in Asia by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd for the engineering…
Map of Beibu Gulf Roc Oil has struck multiple hydrocarbon pays in the Weizhou formation in the Beibu Gulf offshore southern China, the Australian explorer announced on 5 November 2012.The WZ6-12-A6 deviated step-out exploration well reached a total depth of 2…
Map of offshore block KG-DWN-2004/6 Inpex will return to India for the first time since 2008 after acquiring 26% interest in Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC)'s deepwater play in the Bay of Bengal, the company announced on 5 November 2012…
To meet drilling challenges, such as hole sections with long steep inclinations and severe doglegs, the keystone of a new drilling campaign offshore Thailand includes use of rotary steerable systems instead of the downhole motors traditionally used there…
Chor How Jat, executive director of Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard has assumed the role of acting MD of the yard’s businesses and operations following the sudden death of Nelson Yeo.
John Hunter has been appointed project engineering manager at Divex’s Westhill, Scotland headquarters. Greg Hewitt becomes the saturation diving systems supplier’s Asia Pacific region GM.
Julian Hammond was promoted to CEO and president of Tethys Petroleum following the resignation of David Robson on health grounds. Peter Lilley took over as non-executive chairman.
Kevin Revere has joined the Acteon group as VP, based in Kuala Lumpur. Previously VP operations in Wasco Energy’s pipe coating division, he will initially support Acteon’s Asia-based Cape business unit as it expands its subsea pipeline sector product and service offering.
Rahul Dhir stepped down as MD and CEO of Cairn India, reportedly to pursue other business opportunities.
Shyamal Bhattacharya has taken over as operations director at Indian state oil company subsidiary ONGC Videsh. An acknowledged authority on IOR, he once headed the Institute of Reservoir Studies in Ahmedabad.
Prosafe Rigs has entered into an agreement to sell the accommodation jackup Safe Esbjerg to an unspecified Southeast Asian buyer in a $55 million transaction.
The South China Sea didn’t get a lot of respect – until the last few decades anyway. Now the area that rests between China and its fledgling Southeast Asian neighbors has become a geopolitical flash point. Tensions turned into a shooting war in the 1970s and looks like it could again…
EnerMech has opened an office in Mumbai, India, and will follow up later in the year with a workshop and storage facility in Kakinada, Andra Pradesh, to serve its process, pipeline and umbilicals, cranes and lifting, engineering and valves divisions.
Fugro-TSM Asia Pacific has been awarded a five-year life of field support contract in Malaysia from Murphy Oil worth in excess of $140 million. Project management and engineering will be spread between the Fugro-TSM offices in Malaysia and Singapore.