Offshore Support Vessel News - page 24


Fugro wins Kaombo survey contract

Feb 22, 2016

Fugro has won a contract to provide offshore survey and positioning services at the Kaombo oil development offshore Angola. Under the contract awarded by Technip, Fugro will provide offshore deepwater survey and positioning services to…

Petrobras starts fourth PLSV off Brazil

Feb 19, 2016

Sapura Navegacao Maritima’s (SNM) fourth pipelaying support vessel (PLSV), the Sapura Jade started work with Petrobras on 14 February. The Sapura Diamante. Image from SapuraKencana. The Sapura…

Eidesvik inks Technip, Faroe work

Feb 16, 2016

Eidesvik Offshore entered into a new contract extension with Technip for the Viking Neptune subsea support vessel that is scheduled to begin in early April. The supply ship Viking Prince has also been awarded a contract with Faroe Petroleum for a well starting in mid May 2016…

Parker Bestobell Marine supplies FSRU valves

Feb 10, 2016

Parker Bestobell Marine has completed a contract to supply cryogenic globe and check valves made in Sheffield, for Hoegh LNG’s series of five floating storage regasification units (FSRUs) that are being built at Hyundai shipyard (HHI) in South Korea…

Cathelco wins BWT order for Harvey Gulf

Feb 08, 2016

Cathelco’s agent in New Orleans, Green Marine and Industrial Equipment Co., has won an order to supply a ballast water treatment (BWT) system for a new offshore vessel built by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, for Harvey Gulf International Marine…

Prosafe takes delivery of Safe Notos

Feb 05, 2016

Prosafe has taken delivery of the Safe Notos on 4 February 2016 as part of its fleet renewal strategy. Safe Notos is a semisubmersible accommodation vessel. The vessel is of Gusto MSC’s Ocean 500 design and will be equipped with 500 beds…

Aqualis contracted for LNG barge study

Feb 04, 2016

Offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by Gas Entec to provide an engineering study of a new-build LNG barge that will operate in the US offshore. Aqualis Offshore’s work scope is to provide a…

Jan De Nul to install cables on Marjan Field

Jan 28, 2016

Jan De Nul Group will install two additional power cables for Saudi Aramco’s Marjan Field, offshore Saudi Arabia, in the Persian Gulf. For the Marjan gas oil separation plant project executed by McDermott, Jan De Nul Group will install two 115 kV cables…

Farstad bags two Petrobras gigs

Jan 26, 2016

Farstad Shipping has been awarded two charter contracts from Petrobras for operations offshore Brazil. There will be a four-year contract for the PSV Far Strider expected to begin in April 2016. Petrobras has also awarded the anchor…

Tidewater Subsea charters Brandon Bordelon

Jan 18, 2016

Tidewater Subsea and Bordelon Marine have agreed to the charter of the Jones Act compliant MV Brandon Bordelon for 60 days plus options. In addition, Tidewater Subsea is mobilizing two FMC Technologies Schilling 150-HP remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to the vessel…

Nexans picks iSURVEY for Skagerrak

Jan 11, 2016

Nexans has awarded iSURVEY a multi-year frame agreement to provide navigation, positioning and survey support for its cable lay operations on board the C/S Nexans Skagerrak. iSURVEY will provide services including positioning and monitoring during cable lay and trenching operations…

POSH wins Prelude towage gig

Jan 11, 2016

POSH Terasea secured a project to provide towage and positioning services for the Shell Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform.  As part of the project, POSH Terasea will tow the Shell Prelude FLNG over 3000nm from Samsung Shipyard in Geoje…

POSH, Al-Khalaf Group form ME JV

Jan 08, 2016

PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH), an Asia-based offshore marine services provider, has announced that it has entered into a joint venture (JV) and incorporated “POSH Saudi Co.” with Saudi Arabia’s Hmood Al-Khalaf Group as part of its plans to expand its presence in the Middle East…

Sinopacific delivers Pemex-bound PSVs

Dec 29, 2015

Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group successfully delivered three SPP17A platform supply vessels (PSV) to owner Naviera Petrolera Integral (NPI) at Zhejiang Shipyard. The 3 SPP17A PSVs were contracted in July 2014. All of them are the SP series…

Sovcomflot: keel laid for new arctic PSV

Dec 28, 2015

Arctech Helsinki Shipyards, part of United Shipbuilding Corp., held a keel laying ceremony on 17 December for a new icebreaking platform supply vessel ordered by PAO Sovcomflot under a long-term agreement with Sakhalin Energy. The agreement…

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