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Swire, Siem sign vessel bareboat charter

Oct 30, 2017

Swire Seabed has signed a charter with Siem Offshore for up to three years bareboat of Siem vessel Siem Stingray. Siem Stingray, which will be re-named Seabed Stingray, is an IMR, construction and survey vessel of the VARD design. The vessel is 120…

Subsea 7 to buy Normand Oceanic

Oct 18, 2017

Subsea 7 will become the sole owner of the Normand Oceanic, a flex-lay and heavy construction vessel that is being managed by Solstad Farstad while under long-term contract to a third party. The company will take ownership of the vessel…

Mammoet completes Jangkrik FPU load out

Jan 04, 2017

Heavy lifting specialist Mammoet has completed the load-out of the 14,273-ton integrated topside module (ITM) for the Jangkrik floating production unit (FPU) in Karimun Island, Indonesia. Image of Jangkrik…

Flash Tekk pick Saab's Panther XT Plus ROV

Nov 21, 2016

Flash Tekk Engineering has chosen the Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus ROV as a key diving support vessel resource. Flash Tekk is a major diving equipment supplier for the international offshore industry worldwide and supplies diving systems…

Sea Trucks bags Tullow Ghana CSV work

Oct 14, 2016

Tullow Ghana awarded Sea Trucks a contract for the provision of a construction support vessel (CSV) providing accommodation and heavy lift services to the turret moored FPSO Kwame Nkrumahe, in the Jubilee area, 60km offshore Ghana. The…

Boa bags Technip GoM gig

Jun 14, 2016

Technip’s US arm has awarded Boa a contract for light construction, heavy lift and possible umbilical lay operations and installations in the Gulf of Mexico for up to five months, including mobilization and options. The scope of work…

Subsea 7, Seaway ink Beatrice wind farm EPIC

May 23, 2016

Subsea 7 and Dutch contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting are to work together on the Beatrice offshore wind farm. The wind farm, operated by SSE, was given the green light today, and has been described as one of the largest private investments made in Scottish infrastructure…

WJM bags first contract for MOSS V

Mar 29, 2016

William Jacob Management Inc. (WJM) has secured its initial contract to complete the detailed engineering and design of its first mobile offshore support services vessel: the MOSS V. Illustration of the MOSS V…

Deepwater Egypt win for Subsea 7

Feb 26, 2016

Subsea 7 has won an engineering, procurement, installation and pre-commissioning contract on BP's deepwater West Nile Delta project, offshore Egypt.  The contract covers the subsea infrastructure for 12 wells on the Giza, Fayoum and Raven…

ABB software for Ultra Deep Solutions' newbuilds

Feb 01, 2016

Power and automation firm ABB is to provide software for three newbuild deepwater subsea construction vessels being built by new company Ultra Deep Solutions. Ultra Deep Solutions was set up in 2014, by industry veteran Sheldon Hutton…

Subsea 7 bags West Nile Delta gig

Dec 30, 2015

Subsea 7 inked a contract estimated to be between US$50 million to $150 million with Burullus Gas Co. for the platform extension and tie-in on the first phase of BP's West Nile Delta development of the Taurus and Libra fields, offshore Egypt…

VIDEO: Aasta Hansteen heavy lift

Nov 25, 2015

Statoil has released a video of a heavy lift as part of its Aasta Hansteen spar integration in Hyundai Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea. Weighing 2200-tonne and measuring 50 X 20 X 25m, the heavy lift of this 'mega module' was a…

Pacific Drilling rescinds Zonda contract

Oct 29, 2015

Pacific Drilling announced that it has exercised its right to rescind the construction contract for ultra-deepwater drillship Pacific Zonda due to the failure by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to timely deliver a vessel that substantially…

Aqualis wins Chinese liftboat contract

Aug 05, 2015

Image from Aqualis Offshore Aqualis Offshore has been awarded a contracted by Mekers Offshore Ltd. to supervise the construction of the Zhejiang-based company’s two new liftboats…

Subsea 7 on BP's West Nile Delta

Jul 30, 2015

Subsea 7 has won a contract worth about US$500 million from BP for the development of the Taurus and Libra subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt.  The contract is the first phase of Egypt's West Nile Delta project where field development will be at depths of approximately 800m…

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