The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for appraisal well 7220/11-3 AR on its Alta discovery in the Barents Sea. The well will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson in production license PL 609…
GE’s Marine Solutions was awarded a service contract by CIMC Raffles to provide the first dry-dock services on two of Gazflot’s semisubmersible drilling vessels, the Northern Lights and Polar Star. During the dry-docking, GE’s Marine…
PGS’s newest Ramform Titan-class survey vessel, the Ramform Tethys,has made her first project a new world towing record by drawing the world's largest seismic spread. Image of the Ramford Tethys…
Petrofac has been awarded a three-year contract to provide a condition monitoring program for Bumi Armada’s Olombendo floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit bound for offshore Angola. Currently under conversion in Singapore…
Drilling and engineering contractor KCA Deutag has sold its jackup drilling unit, the Ben Rinnes, to an integrated energy and services company for an undisclosed sum. Built in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1973 and acquired by KCA Deutag in 2005…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) will continue to acquire geological samples and deep-sea minerals in the Norwegian Sea this summer. The objective is to increase understanding of resources and the geological development of the North Atlantic…
InterMoor has successfully completed the final tensioning and chain cutting operations on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Turritella, for the Shell Stones project, located in the Walker Ridge protraction area in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM)…
Last year was a challenging year for the floating production systems (FPS) market. The low oil price threatened the commerciality of numerous projects, delay announcements for FPS units under construction arrived regularly and overall only four orders were placed…
Palfinger Marine Winches and Offshore Equipment has been awarded a contract by Sembcorp Marine to supply of the bulk loading stations for Heerema Offshore Services’ semisubmersible crane vessel Sleipnir. The delivery consists of two complete bulk loading stations…
The design and technical features of Finland's newest icebreaker Polaris (IB Polaris) were presented in Helsinki as part of the CIMAC World Congress. IB Polaris is an environmentally friendly diesel-electric icebreaker. It will be powered…
Tullow Oil Norge (TONAS) has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in Block 16/5 in the North Sea. The well will be drilled in a prospect named Rome, with the designation 16/5-6.…
DOF Subsea has been awarded several ROV and diving contracts for the Skandi Achiever vessel in the North Sea and the North America region, securing utilization of the vessel until end-October 2016. Following completion of ongoing commitments in the North Sea…
Rosneft and its partner Statoil have started drilling on the Ulberikanskayaat prospect in the Lisiansky license in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Nanhai_9 rig, from Rosneft. Well Ulberikanskaya…
Helix Energy Solutions completed its contract renegotiations with Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) and has entered into amendments to its well intervention services contracts for its two chartered vessels, the Siem Helix 1 and the Siem Helix 2…
Italy's Remacut is due to deliver its first system from its new assembly workshop in Genova. The delivery will be a portable 150-tonne vertical lay system for McDermott, to be used initially on the firm's V108 vessel for Inpex's Ichthys project off Australia…