Houston-based marine seismic node firm FairfieldNodal has finalized its acquisition of UK-based marine geophysical services firm WGP Group from Thalassa Holdings. The acquisition will have an effective date of 31 December 2017. FairfieldNodal…
The Internet of Things is becoming ever more embedded in the oil psyche. Steve Hamlen reports. Mackinnon The increasing use of sensors coupled with the progress in data collection…
French offshore industry vessel operator Bourbon has agreed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Automated Ships Limited (ASL) to support the building of the world’s first autonomous, fully-automated and cost-efficient prototype vessel for offshore operations…
North Atlantic Drilling has again extended a newbuild rig contract standstill agreement with Singapore's Sembcorp Marine. Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Jurung Shipyard has been building the semisubmersible drilling rig West Rigel, on which a standstill agreement had already been put in place…
Ezion Holdings Ltd. has secured an agreement to jointly market two service rigs being built by a Chinese state owned enterprise to support the offshore windfarm, oil and gas activities in the energy sector, announced Ezion Holdings board of directors…
Bisso Marine has announced its acquisition of the derrick/pipelay barge Global Iroquois. The 400ft x 100ft x 30ft laybarge has performed pipelay operations worldwide and will be renamed Bisso Iroquois. The central part of the barge’s…
Ezra Holding appointed group founder Lee Kian Soo as its non-executive chairman after Koh Poh Tiong steps down with effect from 1 February 2016. Soo has been in the shipping and offshore support services industry for more than 40 years…
Walter Oil & Gas announced the installation of the recently completed Coelacanth Field platform at Ewing Bank Block 834 (EW 834) in the Gulf of Mexico. Image of Coelacanth Field’s platform heading to sea…
Ezra Holdings Ltd. announced the stepping down of Capt. Adarash Kumar from the board of Ezra as an executive director, as well as the cessation of his position as chief operating officer (CEO) effective 25 September 2015. Kumar will take up the role of CEO at EMAS Offshore Ltd…
Höegh LNG Holdings has signed an FSRU contract with Octopus LNG for the Penco-Lirquén LNG import terminal to be located in Concepción Bay, Chile. The contract is for a period of 20 years and is expected to generate an average annual EBITDA of around US$36 million…
Helix Energy Solutions’ subsidiary Helix Q5000 Holdings S.A.R.L. took delivery of the Q5000 semisubmersible well intervention vessel from Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard on 30 April. In conjunction with delivery of the vessel, Helix Q5000 Holdings S…
Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard awarded Ezra Holding subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), a contract to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field’s extended well test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large…
Energy services company Proserv has signed an agreement to be acquired by major US private equity investor Riverstone Holdings LLC. Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund V, LP, in partnership with Proserv management, will acquire 100% of Proserv shares from Intervale Capital…
Vard Marine has been awarded a US Patent for their design and engineering of a Dual Fuel Vessel. The company also announced that later this year; the first of six 5100DWT vessels to be built under this patent will be delivered. The…
The Mineral Licence and Safety Authority of the Government of Greenland (MLSA) has contracted ASL Environmental Sciences to build and maintain a web-based marine geoportal from which sea ice, iceberg, metocean, and seafloor data from the…
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