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InterMoor completes Malikai TLP

Jun 21, 2016

InterMoor has completed its marine aspect of the Shell's Malikai tension leg platform (TLP) float off operation in Malaysia. The TLP was loaded onto the Dockwise heavy lift vessel White Marlin at Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) shipyard in Pasir Gudang…

FEEDing recovery in Asia Pacific

Jun 01, 2016

The downturn is forcing operators to go back to the drawing board in order to advance projects. EIC Analyst Angeline Elias provides an overview of activity in Asia Pacific. Dockwise loading out the SHWE platform…

Woodside to start Irish 3D

May 25, 2016

Woodside and partner Petrel Resources have received environmental approvals from the Department of Communications, Climate Change, & Natural Resources (formerly the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources) earlier this month…

Boskalis nets Johan Sverdrup transport contract

Apr 01, 2016

Dutch offshore contractor Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Samsung Heavy Industries for the transportation of the three topside modules of the riser platform and the topside of the processing platform for the Johan Sverdrup project offshore Norway…

Shell ends Polar Pioneer contract

Dec 28, 2015

Shell has terminated the contract for the Polar Pioneer, a harsh environment semisubmersible drilling rig, announced rig owner Transocean on 28 December. The rig was famously used this summer in Shell's Arctic campaign in the Chukchi Sea…

Statoil drops Discoverer Americas drillship

Dec 18, 2015

Statoil has decided to cancel the contract with Transocean for the drillship Discoverer Americas. The drillship has been on contract with Statoil since 2009, supporting Statoil’s exploration activities in East and North Africa and the Gulf of Mexico…

Statoil's latest rig cancellation announced

Nov 02, 2015

Statoil has decided to cancel a contract for use of the semisubmersible drilling rig Songa Trym, four months before the expiration of contract on 4 March 2016. Statoil has previously notified owner Songa Offshore that the rig would be suspended for a period…

The Vanguard of ocean transport

Sep 01, 2015

Heavy transport firm Dockwise performed a market first with the transport of a ship-shaped FPSO, the Armada Intrepid. Elaine Maslin explains. Images from Dockwise. When the Dockwise Vanguard was conceived…

Dockwise Vanguard loads first ship-shaped FPSO

May 12, 2015

Boskalis-subsidiary Dockwise loaded the first ship-shaped floating, production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) onto the largest semisubmersible heavy transport vessel in the world. The Armada Intrepid FPSO was loaded onto the Dockwise Vanguard in the Caland canal…

Goliat in tow to Barents

May 07, 2015

Eni's Goliat platform is being towed from Hammerfest in Finnmark to the field location in the Barents Sea.   Goliat tow out. From Eni. The cylindrical platform – a so-called floating…

Goliat arriving in Hammerfest

Apr 28, 2015

In this video, Eni shows the Goliat floating and production storage offloading unit (FPSO) platform arriving in Hammerfest, Norway from the Ulsan shipyard in South Korea after a 63-day journey of 15,608 nautical miles. The platform was aboard the Dockwise Vanguard…

Goliat platform floats off

Apr 23, 2015

The Goliat floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) floated off the Dockwise Vanguard in the fjord outside Hammerfest on 23 April. Goliat. From Eni. Eni says the platform will now be temporarily moored in Ersvika…

Goliat arrives in Hammerfest

Apr 17, 2015

Eni's floating cylindrical platform for the Goliat field in the Barents Sea arrives in Hammerfest today (April 17) from South Korea after a 63-day voyage covering 15,608 nautical miles, the firm has announced. The 107m-diameter, 64,000…

Boskalis takes more Fugro stake

Mar 20, 2015

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) increased its stake in Fugro to 25.1%, just four months after acquiring 14.8% in the company. Image from Boskalis.   In a statement, Boskalis…

Goliat’s voyage to Norway

Mar 17, 2015

In this video, Eni shows the Goliat’s voyage from Korea to the Barents Sea. Eni’s operated cyclindrical floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) platform was built in South Korea and is now operating in the Barents Sea…

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