Bureau Veritas appointed Paul Shrieve as chief executive officer (CEO) of North Sea offshore operations, marine and offshore. Shrieve. Image from Bureau Veritas. Shrieve is based at the company’s Aberdeen office…
Lamprell has received a new contract from Jacktel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Master Marine, for the upgrade of the mobile operating unit Haven as an accommodation service vessel for the Statoil Johan Sverdrup field, offshore Norway. The scope of works includes procurement…
Mexico’s Permaducto S.A. de C.V. (Protexa) has awarded Sea Trucks Group a charter for the Jascon 31 for the provision of accommodation and heavy lift services in the Gulf of Mexico. Sea Trucks will provide accommodation and lifting services…
Quadrant Energy confirmed a gas condensate discovery at the Roc-2 appraisal well offshore Western Australia, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum. Roc-2 is in WA-437-P exploration permit in the North West Shelf of Australia, where…
Teekay Offshore has been awarded new three-year shuttle tanker contracts of affreightment (CoA), plus extension options, with BP plc, Royal Dutch Shell and OMV Group, to transport the oil produced from the new Glen Lyon FPSO, which is part…
Statoil’s investigation following the Turøy helicopter accident on 29 April has been finalized, offering conclusions and recommendations for how the company can further improve its helicopter safety work. Image of a helicopter landing at Snorre A…
Norwest Energy entered into a farmout agreement with Transerv Energy and Triangle Energy (Global) Ltd. for the Xanadu-1, within TP/15, a block currently 100% owned by Norwest Energy (Norwest) via subsidiary Westranch Holdings. TP/15 is located in the offshore northern Perth Basin…
Teledyne RD Instruments (TRDI) has received an order for an additional 10 Explorer Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) to provide precision navigation and current profiling capability on board OceanServer Technology’s Iver3-580 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)…
Hyperdynamics Corp. says it is set to target Guinea's 'vast and largely untested hydrocarbon potential' after having its production sharing contract (PSC) offshore Guinea extended. The company is obligated to drill one exploratory well with a projected commencement date of April 2017…
A containment boom deployment training exercise ahead of moving a rig which had grounded on the Scottish coast has been postponed for at least two days due to windy weather, according to the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). The…
Tullow Oil says its hull and machinery insurance cover has been confirmed for the floating production, storage and offloading unit Kwame Nkrumah by its reinsurers, following the failure of the turret bearing earlier this year. Tullow first experienced issues at the FPSO…
A two-week mission involving 10 marine robots has commenced off northwest Scotland. The third in a series of demonstrator missions, this latest phase sees the largest fleet of marine robotic vehicles simultaneously deployed in UK waters…
Russia's Gazprom has made a discovery on the Kirinsky block in the Sea of Okhotsk. The firm was drilling an exploration and appraisal well on the Yuzhno-Lunskaya structure within the Sakhalin III project. As a result, a substantial gas and condensate inflow was reported…
Union members have voted to end a strike in the North Sea, after Wood Group allowed members to reduce cuts to wages. Image from iStock. Members of Scotland’s biggest offshore union…
Danish giant AP Møller-Mærsk is dividing its company into two, after reviewing strategic and structural options for months that will also see its CEO, Jakob Thomasen, make his exit. Image from Maersk Flickr…