Last weekend the salvage company J A Rederiet (Jens Alfastsen) conducted a spectacular salvage operation in the North Sea. In heavy weather and winds up to 25 m/s the Dutch owned tug Compass lost its tow some 28 nautical miles west of Hvide Sande while on a voyage from England to Larvik in Norway. T
Tullow Oil has reported another deepwater oil find offshore Africa after the Mercury 1 well operated by Anadarko hit oil. Mercury 1 was the second deepwater test in the Sierra Leone-Liberian basin and hit 135 ft (41.14 metres) of net oil pay, Anadarko declared
DONG Energy’s profit after tax almost tripled to 3,1bn kroner for the first nine months of 2010, compared with the results for the first nine months of 2009. Revenue was up 2,7bn kroner to 38,5bn kroner, reflecting higher energy prices and generation from new wind farms.
A.P. Moller-Maersk is considering a new offering of bonds and has engaged banks to advise it. Investorrelations chief Henrik Lund said on Friday the group had hired Barclays, BNP Paribas, Danske Bank, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland to advise it.
Eni announces the successful results of the Perla 3 well, located in the Cardón IV Block, in the shallow water of the Gulf of Venezuela. This well confirms Perla as a world-class supergiant gas discovery, one of the most significant in recent years and the largest ever in Venezuela, upgrading curren
DONG Energy a 30 % share in CT Offshore, a company founded in 2002 by Paw Cortes, when he saw the opportunity to service wind farm cables. Since then, both the fleet and the organization has expanded significantly.
DEME (AvH 50%) signed several important contracts in the third quarter, a.o. the site for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi Russia, capital and maintenance dredging works in the LNG port of Soyo in Angola, dredging works for an LNG terminal in Mexico, petrochemical and port development in Malaysia a
Advent Energy Ltd (Advent) announces that it has received approval from Industry & Investment NSW (I&I NSW) for the drilling of New Seaclem-1, offshore Newcastle, NSW. The NSW Department of Industry & Investment trades as Industry & Investment NSW (I&I NSW). Approval has been granted for Asset Energ
At the beginning of September, Liebherr delivered the second heavy lift offshore crane type MTC 78000 straight from its manufacturing plant in Rostock. The MTC 78000 is one of the biggest offshore slewing cranes worldwide. With a maximum dynamic torque of 78,000 mT, the MTC 78000 is the most powerfu
Grenland Group is contracted to deliver one integrated template structure and one manifold for FMC Technologies at Kongsberg. The total weight for the delivered structures will be approximately 350 tonnes. FMC Technologies recently signed an agreement with Statoil for the delivery of subsea producti
Carnival Cruise Lines says it has no further explanation for why a fire disabled its ship off the coast of Mexico last week, but the cruise director is providing a dramatic insider’s account of when the Carnival Splendor was “dead in the water.”
Offshore Solutions B.V. (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland N.V., is celebrating the successful completion of its five-year contract for NAM in the Southern North Sea. During this period, the Offshore Access System has enabled more than 31,000 walk-to-work transfers to be mad
Wind power off Rhode Island’s coast will be the subject of a conference intended to draw representatives of industry, government and… (boston) [mappress] Source: boston, November 15, 2010;
SMart Wind, the consortium lead by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, has appointed GL Garrad Hassan to act as Independent Engineer for the first two 500MW projects in the 4GW ‘Hornsea’ zone located off the coast of Yorkshire. Last month the consortium announced it has secured
