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Pemex job for Oleg Strashnov

Oct 29, 2013

Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has won a contract with Permaducto SA de CV for an offshore installation project in Mexico.  Under the contract, SHL will execute work offshore Mexico in a joined offshore program for Pemex’s KuMaZa/Cantarell project…

Swiber and Dragados laying Dos Bocas pipelines for Pemex

Oct 25, 2013

PEMEX Exploration and Production (PEP) has awarded Spain's Dragados Offshore a pipelay contract worth nearly $200million. Dragados will lay 38km of pipelines linking production platforms in the shallow-water Xanab and Yaxche oil fields in…

IntecSea's FHSB semisub design accommodates dry trees

Oct 24, 2013

INTECSEA, a global company within the Worley Parsons Group, is featuring its new semisubmersible design at the Deep Offshore Technology (DOT) conference this week. The company says the new design enables dry tree applications in harsh environments…

Europa: South Porcupine seismic completed

Oct 24, 2013

Europa Oil & Gas says a 1500sq km 3D seismic acquisition program on Frontier Exploration Licences (FELs) 2/13 and 3/13 in the South Porcupine basin, offshore Ireland, using the MV Polarcus Amani, has completed.  Kosmos Energy Ireland…

Rederij Groen orders two SRSVs

Oct 23, 2013

Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam (NL), part of Damen Shipyards Group, has been contracted again by Rederij Groen (NL) after delivering two chasers, the ‘Aquarius-G’ and the ‘Astra-G’, earlier this year. The new seismic research support vessel (SSRV) deliveries are planned for Q3 2014…

Sevan Drilling gets third rig

Oct 23, 2013

Sevan Drilling ASA today (October 23) took delivery of the Sevan Louisiana from Cosco Quidong Shipyard in China. The drilling rig has a cylindrical hull design and will be capable of drilling in water depths to 10,000ft. Sevan Louisiana…

Ocean Valiant arrives in Las Palmas

Oct 23, 2013

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Summit has delivered the semisubmersible rig Ocean Valiant safely in the port of Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Fairmount Summit towed the rig from offshore Cameroon over a distance of almost 3000 miles. The…

New vessels at training centre

Oct 23, 2013

The Underwater Centre in Fort William, Scotland, has invested in two new barges to meet the demand for its commercial diving and ROV Pilot Technician training courses.  The new vessels, the renamed Loch Sunart and Loch Scavaig, have been purchased from Western Ferries (Clyde) Limited…

Bureau Veritas classes Brazil’s largest FPU

Oct 22, 2013

Petrobras’ P-55 Floating Production Unit (FPU), the largest and the first of this kind entirely built in Brazil, is on its way to the Roncador field, Campos basin, where it will be installed in a water depth of 1,790m.  The column-stabilized semisubmersible has a capacity of 180…

First deepwater Barents well dry

Oct 22, 2013

Eni Norge’s exploration well on the Bønna prospect was dry, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).  The wildcat well 7016/2-1 was the first drilled in production license 529 in the Barents Sea, about 185km southwest of the Snøhvit field and 160km northwest of Tromsø…

Newbuild OCV for North Sea

Oct 22, 2013

Two agreements announced today will see subsea services firm DeepOcean take on a newbuild installation vessel and Norwegian shipyard Kleven undertake its largest order to date.  DeepOcean has agreed to a five and a half year charter, starting March 2016…

PSV Edda Ferd starts sea trials in Spain

Oct 21, 2013

Platform supply vessel Edda Ferd (hull C-444) departed from the Gondan shipyard in Spain, bound for Gijon port to carry out sea trials.  The vessel is the eighth built by the shipyard for the Norwegian company Ostensjo Rederi and its delivery is scheduled for November 2013…

Subsea 7 crew performs "Africa"

Oct 21, 2013

It's not all about work when you're out at sea. Subsea 7's crew onboard the Bourbon Peridot multipurpose supply vessel collaborated for this fun rendition of the song 'Africa' by Toto while in Equatorial Guinea off West Africa. The video clip…

AHC contract for IHC Merwede

Oct 21, 2013

IHC Merwede has signed a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) delivery of an active heave compensation (AHC) system. The system will be designed for use in deepwater subsea installation of heavy modules in dynamic sea states…

Petrobras extends Subsea 7 PLSV contract

Oct 21, 2013

Subsea 7 has been awarded to new contracts for pipelay support vessels with Petrobras worth an estimated US$600 million. The contracts are for operation of the pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) Seven Mar and Seven Condor on a day rate basis for approximately three years…

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