Fugro is one of eight firms recently awarded a five-year hydrographic survey contract by the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Task orders under this indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract…
Statoil has awarded Aibel a contract for the hook-up of new living quarters to the Oseberg C platform. The contract has an estimated value of about NOK 125 million. The project, called the Oseberg C Continuous Drilling (LQ Extension) project…
DeepFlex has signed an agreement with Offshore Inland Marine & Services, Inc. (OIMO) to set up a new unbonded flexible pipe manufacturing and qualification testing facility in the Port of Pensacola, Florida. The industrial complex will have direct access to the existing deep water quayside…
BG Group announced today that it has completed the sale of its 62.78% equity interest in the Central Area Transmission System (CATS) gas pipeline in the UK North Sea and associated infrastructure to Antin Infrastructure Partners. Total proceeds from the transaction…
Macgregor, a Cargotec company, has secured contracts from Bumi Armada Berhad, a Malaysia-based international offshore oilfied services provider, to supply equipment for two projects that will be booked into the company’s Q2 2014 order intake…
Allseas mega-vessel, the Pieter Schelte, is to be completed in the port of Rotterdam. Owner and designer Allseas and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have signed an agreement for the Pieter Schelte to arrive in Rotterdam, from Korea, where…
VNG Norge has discovered oil on the Bue well, in production license (PL) 586, offshore Norway, and increased its resource estimate for the nearby Pil discovery, in the same license. The combined resource of both finds has been estimated at 80-200MMboe by partner Faroe petroleum…
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen, has signed a four-year, multi-million dollar drilling data contract with Vienna-based OMV Group for all of its global drilling activities. The contract…
Ezra Holdings has revealed plans to consolidate its offshore support services division, EMAS Marine, into its associated company, Olso Børs-listed EOC Limited. Once complete, the enlarged EOC Group would be one of the largest offshore support operators in Asia Pacific by asset value…
COSCO (Guang Dong) Shipyard Co. is going to build a further two platform supply vessels of the ULSTEIN PX121 design for Vroon Offshore Services, the Netherlands. Ulstein has entered into an agreement with COSCO on delivering ship design…
Engineering and project management group AMEC has been awarded the front end engineering and design contract for a tension leg platform for Premier Oil's Falklands Sea Lion development. AMEC will be responsible for the design of the 30…
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has received a letter of award (LOA) from Abu Ahabi Marine Operating Compnay for a US$1.94 billion order for the second package of the Nasr Full Field Development Project. Under the LOA, HHI would undertake engineering…
Van Oord’s new DP2 cable-laying vessel Nexus was successfully launched at Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania on 30 June 2014. The 123m multipurpose vessel will be deployed installing electrical cables for offshore wind farms. With a beam of almost 28m and a dynamic positioning system…
The humanitarian program, Geoscientists Without Borders (GWB), launched by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) six years ago, will sponsor a new project in Tanzania to prevent an ecological disaster that would impact the fisheries and the population that depends on them…
Energistics, the upstream oil and gas open standards consortium, has published the Unit of Measure (UOM) Standard V1.0. This new standard includes the Unit of Measure Dictionary and the Unit Symbol Grammar Specification. This standard is a harmonization of several industry UOM standards…
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