Offshore North America News - page 273

 

Thrustmaster delivers Petrobras vessel

Dec 19, 2014

Thrustmaster of Texas delivered the BS Camburi vessel to Petrobras. Image from Thrustmaster.    The BS Camburi is a 36m monohull crewboat built in Brazil by Arpoador Engenharia to the Petrobras type P2 specification…

Hopper named new BOEM director

Dec 18, 2014

Abigail Ross Hopper has been appointed Director of the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), effective 5 January, the US Department of the Interior announced on 18 December 2014. Hopper, who will be the second director in the agency’s history…

Prospect joins Wild Well Control

Dec 18, 2014

Prospect Flow Solutions is joining Wild Well Control to serve as its new advanced engineering group.    Since Prospect’s founding in 1999, Wild Well and its parent company have partnered with Prospect on a number of projects to deliver…

Woodside farms-in offshore Nova Scotia

Dec 18, 2014

Woodside advises that it has finalized an agreement with BP to farm in to offshore blocks in the Scotian basin, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. BP accepted Woodside’s offer to acquire a 20% participating interest in exploration licenses 2431…

Bahamas to assess petroleum act

Dec 18, 2014

Oil exploration in the Bahamas has taken a step forward after a new Petroleum Act and regulations to guide and govern oil exploration in was placed before the Parliament of The Bahamas. The draft legislation is now likely to go through…

Rodi Marine building two FSVs for Swiftships

Dec 17, 2014

Rodi Marine Service signed a contract with Swiftships to build two additional 175 Foot DP-2 fast supply vessels (FSVs). The two additional vessels will be an extension of the two-boat order made by Rodi Marine in 2013. The Riley Claire…

SBM able to weather oil price plummet

Dec 17, 2014

SBM Offshore CEO Bruno Chabas has said the firm is well positioned to weather the current down-turn in oil prices thanks to 90% of its backlog consisting of lease and operate income with dayrates not dependent on oil prices or production levels…

Subsea 7 on Stampede installation

Dec 17, 2014

Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by the Hess Corporation for installation work in support of the Stampede Project in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.  The scope of work involves installation of flowlines, steel catenary risers, umbilicals…

Technip umbilicals

Dec 16, 2014

Technip Umbilicals gives a look at its umbilicals operations. The group has four manufacturing sites: Houston (US), Lobito (Angola) and Tangjung Langsat (Malaysia) and its newest location in Newcastle (UK). Umbilicals form the…

Danos gets Bristow contract

Dec 16, 2014

Bristow awarded Danos a contract to provide field support for Bristow’s six Gulf of Mexico bases. Five of the bases are located in Louisiana – Galliano, Houma, Intercoastal City, New Iberia and Venice – and one in Galveston, Texas.    Executives…

SKF, Vantage improve drillship reliability

Dec 16, 2014

SKF USA and Vantage Drilling combined resources to improve the reliability of the Vantage Titanium Explorer and Platinum Explorer drill ship fleet. Titanium Explorer. From Vantage.   These…

Repsol agrees $8.3bn for Talisman

Dec 16, 2014

Spain's Repsol has agreed a deal to buy Canadian exploration and production company Talisman Energy for US$8.3 billion plus debt - amounting to the largest international deal by a Spanish company in five years. The deal, which had been rumored for some months…

Largest offshore Newfoundland bid accepted

Dec 16, 2014

Newfoundland and Labrador’s latest exploration licensing round has resulted in a $559 million bid led by ExxonMobil – the largest bid in the province’s history for a single parcel.  ExxonMobil bid as part of a consortium with Canada’s…

Technip sells US diving assets

Dec 16, 2014

Technip has completed the previously announced sale of its diving assets in the US Gulf of Mexico to Ranger Offshore Inc. As part of this transaction, Technip USA and Ranger Offshore have entered into a multiyear Diving Services Agreement covering Technip’s North America Region…

Woodside buys Apache LNG stakes

Dec 15, 2014

Australia’s Woodside Petroleum will purchase Houston-based Apache’s interest in two LNG projects, Wheatstone and Kitimat LNG (pictured, right) for approximately US$2.75 billion. Apache announced in late July that it would exit the two…

Current News

Odyssey Marine Exploration Request for Offshore Mineral Lease Sale Advances

Odyssey Marine Exploration Req

Technip Energies Gets On Board Thailand’s First CCS Project

Technip Energies Gets On Board

Jan De Nul Wraps Up Cable Installation Job for TenneT’s DolWin Platform

Jan De Nul Wraps Up Cable Inst

Deepsea Bollsta Rig Gets New Name as Odfjell Drilling Takes Ownership

Deepsea Bollsta Rig Gets New N

Subscribe for OE Digital E‑News

 
Offshore Engineer Magazine