Paragon Offshore has won a short-term contact with Centrica for the B391 jackup, offshore the UK. The B391 will preform light well intervention work from late-October to late-November 2016 at a dayrate of US$53,000. Centrica and Paragon…
Royal IHC has signed a new contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a tandem mooring and offloading system for a floating, storage and offloading (FSO) vessel. Image from Royal IHC…
Intelligent Engineering has seen its SPS repair system used on a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel offshore Cameroon. The FSO Komi Kribi 1 (KK1), converted in 1977 from a VLCC and operated by ExxonMobil for Cameroon Oil Transportation Co…
Hurricane Energy has reported a sustainable flow rate from a horizontal side-track well at its Lancaster discovery, West of Shetland, offshore the UK. Image from Hurricane. The…
SeaBird Exploration, a provider of marine acquisition for 2D/3D and 4D seismic data, will acquire a 2D long-offset survey in Belize, starting mid-October 2016. SeaBird will use the Northern Explorer to acquire the survey and the anticipated duration of the program is three to four weeks.
Statoil has made an oil and gas discovery at the Njord North Flank in the Norwegian Sea that could potentially hold up to 28.3 MMboe, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. The Songa Delta, from Songa Offshore…
Polarcus entered into a memorandum of understand (MoU) to collaborate with TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. to jointly develop selected 3D multi-client projects. New projects taken under the collaboration agreement will be announced separately as they occur…
Sevan Drilling and Cosco have agreed to exercise the third six-month option to extend the deferral agreement of the Sevan Developer cylindrical drilling rig to 15 April 2017, delaying the unit an additional six months. The final delivery instalment has been amended to US$499…
Maersk Drilling has named its fourth XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jackup the Maersk Invincible, on 14 October at a ceremony held at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. Maersk Invincible…
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…
Eni’s Armada Olombendo floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel will soon sail away to the East Hub Development, offshore Angola, following its naming ceremony this week. A ceremony was held today (14 October) in Singapore…
The 2MW SR2000 tidal turbine, developed and manufactured by Scottish engineering company Scotrenewables Tidal Power, has been installed on its moorings for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney as part of site commissioning and testing…
CGG and Eidesvik Offshore have agreed to terminate the contract for the Viking Vision vessel effective immediately. The contract was due to end at the end of July 2017. According to Eidesvik, the payment of the charter rate will continue until July 2017…
Norwegian outfits GC Rieber Shipping and Rasmussengruppen have joined forces to set up a new 50/50 owned marine geophysical company, to be called Shearwater GeoServices. Shearwater will be an integrated provider of marine geophysical…
Norwegian geoscience firm Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) says it is to reduce its 'employee expenses' by about 20%, through temporary and permanent layoffs on shore and offshore and other measures, due to a reduced level of activity. Q2 'employee expenses' were US$5…
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