Chevron’s appraisal of the Anchor discovery proved successful oil pay in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Trend, in the US Gulf of Mexico that the company says indicates a significant discovery of potentially hub class scale. Chevron's…
The BlueTEC Texel Tidal energy project partnership is planning to install a second larger turbine on its system after the first months of operating the BlueTEC tidal energy platform were seen to be a success, supplying electricity into the Dutch national grid…
MacGregor entered into an agreement with Guangzhou Shunhai Shipyard to deliver anchor handling winch packages for five 48m anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels. Each will have a 75-tonne bollard pull and one 40m AHTS vessel with a 70-tonne bollard pull…
EMAS Offshore secured three new awards for charters with oil majors in West Africa and Thailand valued at more than US$24 million (including options). In West Africa, EMAS Offshore’s anchor dandling tug and supply (AHTS) vessel will be…
LLOG Exploration and its partners Ridgewood Energy and Stone Energy Corp. drilled a successful exploration test at the Viosca Knoll 959 “Crown & Anchor” prospect. The initial exploratory well encountered greater than 50ft of net oil bearing sand in a high-quality Miocene reservoir…
Chevron encountered a significant oil discovery at its deepwater US Gulf of Mexico Anchor prospect. The Anchor well was drilled by Pacific Drilling's Pacific Santa Ana drillship. Image from Pacific Drilling…
Norwegian private equity outfit HitecVision has created a new oil service group by merging five companies in its portfolio. Global Maritime Group comprises companies working within offshore and maritime engineering, marine warranty, dynamic positioning…
A consortium of nine organizations including Bluewater Energy Services, Damen Shipyards Group, Van Oord and the Dutch Tidal Testing Centre have partnered to deploy a trial floating tidal energy platform in the Wadden Sea. It will mark…
Chevron’s Anchor-1 well was junked due to mechanical difficulties. Located in Green Canyon block 807, 131 mi. from Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, Anchor-1 was abandoned before reaching its geologic objectives, according to Cobalt International Energy’s 2Q 2014 results…
A Depla during scale testing. Images from Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS). Dutch drag anchor specialists Vryhof Anchors have gone down under in a move to develop efficient deepwater anchor systems…
IHC Merwede has strengthened its North American operations and reinforced its presence in Houston, Texas with a strategic appointment at the IHC Merwede America Corp. office. Thomas Agnevall is the new Vice President Business Development and will be based at the company’s Houston office…
InterMoor has been awarded a contract for design, fabrication and installation of 12 suction pile anchors, pre-set installation of 12 chain polyester chain mooring lines and hook-up of the LLOG Delta House production semi-submersible floating production system (FPS)…
Jumbo announced that it has been awarded a contract by Malaysian pipelay contractor Sigur Ros. Under the contract, Jumbo will oversee transportation and installation of 126 gravity anchor spreads in water depths up to 1400m (4593ft), using the heavy-lift vessel…
With the increased complexity of today’s subsea production systems giving mooring solutions providers much to think about, Viking Moorings chief executive Wolfgang Wandl discusses how his company is rising to the challenge.The global mooring…
With holding power over 100 times their own weight as well as clear economic advantages, the first drag embedment anchors made quite a splash in the offshore industry in the 1970s. Yet some project engineers still feel more comfortable with…
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