SURF contractor Ceona has secured a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the company’s newbuild flagship field development vessel, the Ceona Amazon in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract will be the Ceona Amazon's first as well as Ceona’s first…
Statoil has chosen Sentinel Marine to provide a new multi-role emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV) to support operations on the Mariner field on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Aberdeeen-based Sentinel Marine owns and operates…
Chevron Brasil extended the contract for Skandi Salvador and IRM services for the remainder of 2015. The extension is a direct continuation of the current contract. The vessel has been operating for Chevron on the Frade oil field since delivery of the vessel in 2009…
Lloyd’s Register Consulting completed safety work packages for Aibel regarding an engineering and design contract for the Vette floating productions storage and offloading (FPSO) project. The safety contracts cover quantitative risk assessments…
Shell took delivery of an offshore supply vessel for its deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), from Harvey Gulf International Marine. The Harvey Energy is 302 ft. and operates on three dual-fuel Wärtsilä engines. It will…
Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. (HLJOC) has selected Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) to handle critical project management and engineering for the TGT-H5 wellhead platform that will tap energy reserves off the coast of Vietnam. Image from HLJOC…
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. (MOUK) awarded Ampelmann a contract to use its motion compensation gangways (MCG). MOUK will use the Ampelmann system for a shutdown campaign in the UK sector of the central North Sea to extend the weather window and increase workability and efficiency…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has launched an investigation into an incident on Transocean Barents on 4 March when a roughneck suffered crush injuries. The injured drill floor worker was on the monkey board, about 10-12m in the derrick…
The 50/50 Technip and Techint consortium awarded Aqualis Offshore a contract to be the marine warranty surveyor for all marine operations related to the integration of the P-76 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit at Techint’s yard in the south of Brazil…
Lundin Petroleum started drilling exploration well 33/2-2S in PL579 on the Morkel prospect in the Norwegian Sea. Morkel is 180km west of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and approximately 40km northwest of the Snorre field. The main…
Initial evaluation of 3D seismic data shows that Providence Resources P.l.c.’s Drombeg prospect offshore southwest Ireland, is consistent with those of a large deepwater fan system. The Polarcus Amani 3D seismic vessel…
Bordelon Marine is partnering with Susan G. Komen to christen the MV Shelia Bordelon on 20 March 2015 at Bordelon Marine Shipbuilders in Houma, Louisiana. As part of its partnership Bordelon Marine will donate a portion of the profits from its ship…
Ocean Rig’s Eirik Raude arrived in the North Falkland basin off the Falkland Islands and will be moved to begin drilling the first well, according to Rockhopper Exploration. The six-well drilling campaign on the Zebedee prospect will…
Ceona Offshore’s deepwater multi-purpose Ceona Amazon, is close to undertaking its first job in record time from drawing board to mobilization. The contract for the construction of the vessel was signed in July 2013, just over a year after the company was formed…
EMAS AMC officially christened and named its flagship the Lewek Constellation on Sunday (1 March) prior to her departure to the Gulf of Mexico to start work for Noble Energy. The Lewek Constellation, an ice-classed, multi-lay offshore…