Fran Rowe, Technical Advisor of Rowe Technologies, recently received the Lockheed Martin Award for Ocean Science and Engineering at the Oceans 2014 MTS/IEEE conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. The Lockheed Martin sponsored…
Maersk Drilling’s Convincer jackup rig received an additional one-year extension from Petronas Carigali, E&P subsidiary of Malaysia’s national oil company. The US$56 million contract is expected to end mid-November 2015. “Together with Petronas Carigali…
Balmoral Offshore Engineering's new Brazilian manufacturing facility will open by Q3 2015, the buoyancy, insulation and elastomer product company announced at Rio Oil and Gas. Balmoral’s Aberdeen headquarters exports more than 95% of its manufactured goods worldwide…
Lundin Gurita BV is expected to spud the Gobi-1 well offshore Indonesia by mid-October, announced joint venture partner, Nido Petroleum Ltd. The rig the company expects to use for the well, located in West Natuna basin, will be available by early October…
DOF Subsea UK has started work on two major construction projects off West Africa for Italy’s Saipem. DOF Subsea is supplying its 107.1m-long DSV Skandi Singapore and project crew, along with project management and technical support; specialist survey services…
The innovative KO-LINK towing ring, developed by international maritime service provider KOTUG International BV, is now available exclusively from maritime ropes supplier, Lankhorst Ropes, under a worldwide marketing agreement. The KO-LINK…
Watch as Scaldis Marine Contractors NV installs the L6-B platform in the Dutch sector of the North Sea, in Block L6. In a joint effort between Wintershall Nordzee and Scaldis, a methodology was developed with a prime focus of minimizing the duration of the offshore activities…
Allseas' mega-vessel, the Pieter Schelte, is close to leaving Korea for Europe after leaving Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering's quayside on Geoje Island for open water for sea trials. Tests on the 382m-long, 124m-wide vessel,…
Cayman Islands’ registered Lekoil has upgraded the 2C reserves estimate on the Otakikpo marginal field offshore Nigeria by 45%. Otakikpo is in oil mining lease (OML) 11, in a swamp area, offshore Nigeria, adjacent to shoreline in the eastern part of the Niger Delta…
Cyprus-based Deep Sea Supply has won multiple contract awards with an international major subsea contractor covering about 1000 vessel days. The three paltform supply vessels of PX105 design Sea Spider, Sea Springer and Sea Spark have been awarded contracts for ten…
Oyster Petroleum has entered into a farm-in agreement which will see it earn 25% interest in production licenes P.1948 in the central North Sea. License P.1948 covers blocks 29/7c, 12, 13 and 14 in the UK Central North Sea and includes the Shipley and Forwood Prospects…
Germany's RWE Dea is will not submit a plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Norwegian Sea Zidane development in October as planned, the firm has said, citing the need to improve the project's economics. ”Further value enhancement…
Self-propelled self-elevating support vessels (SESV) firm Gulf Marine Services' newbuild GMS Enterprise is starting its first charter after it was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. Its first charter is a four-month contract for an engineering…
Transocean shareholders elected Merrill A. 'Pete' Miller, Jr., to its board of directors, the company announced on 22 September 2014. Miller’s selection was previously announced in July. The board intends to designate Miller as vice chairman…
Churchill Drilling Tools, the provider of dart activated drilling tools, is celebrating the 500th deployment of its DAV MX CircSub. The DAV MX was recently selected by an operator for a dual gradient drilling project, and last year it was deployed at a record depth of 26…