Engineering work carried out on the hull of the Skarv FPSO at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea is “excellent”, an inspection performed by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has revealed. The PSA said it had carried out the audit to verify that BP Norge’s engineering of the Ska
Total has reported a new gas find during drilling offshore northwest Australia with its Mimia 1 well in the WA 344 P permit area which it acquired in November last year which is near the giant Ichthys discovery. Operated by Total E&P Australia, drilling on the Mimia 1 well completed in July and the
OTTAWA – Canada will deploy the Halifax-based frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec to the coast of Somalia to help protect UN ships delivering much-needed supplies from pirates, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. “Food supplies are urgently needed in Somalia but deteriorating security has ma
Van Oord en Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster nv hebben van Rijkswaterstaat opdracht gekregen voor de versterking van de zwakke schakel ‘Delflandse kust’. De contractwaarde is € 120 miljoen; het deel van Van Oord en Boskalis bedraagt 50% elk. Het project omvat de engineering en de realisatie van extr
The maxi-catamaran Gitana 13 was re-launched on Tuesday (5 August) in Hong Kong after over a month on the hard and around 2 weeks’ refit. Gitana 13 is now set to go on its last challenge in the team’s 2008 record campaign: the Tea Route – 15,000 miles from Hong Kong to London, passing via […]
The fleets battled on today with gaping holes in the wind and big ripping tides. The forecast was for a south-southwesterly breeze, but clearing skies led to a weak easterly sea breeze developing, which led to the course setters having to rework many of the courses. Back on shore, there was a defini
StatoilHydro has recently awarded contracts for towed multi-streamer surveys for 2009, totalling NOK 1200 million. The contracts, covering surveys on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Faroes and Ireland, has been awarded to PGS Geophysical, CGG Veritas and Wavefield Inseis. The award to PGS Geoph
StatoilHydro has, together with its partner Sonatrach, made a fifth discovery in the Hassi Mouina licence in the Sahara desert in Algeria. The existence of gas was confirmed in exploration well TNKW-1 in the southern part of the licence. ”This is an interesting discovery and shows that there is a re
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Parker Drilling Company (NYSE: PKD) announced today a new contract to design the drilling package for the Sakhalin-1 Arkutun-Dagi offshore platform. The Arkutun-Dagi Field, offshore Sakhalin Island, Russia, is one of the three offshore fields to be developed
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Parker Drilling Company (NYSE: PKD), a global drilling contractor and service provider, today announced that 44 percent revenue growth for the three months ended June 30, 2008 led to a 34 percent increase in profitability compared with the second quarter of 2
Canadian Natural Resources has handed Technip an engineering and procurement contract for work on its Horizon project in Alberta, Canada. The scope of work covers the expansion of a facility converting heavy oil into lighter synthetic crude as part of Tranche 2 of the Horizon project. The contract c
Seismic group Wavefield Inseis has taken delivery of its latest vessel Geowave Endeavour which has already started work for BG Norge offshore Norway. Wavefield has taken the new seismic ship on a seven-year charter from Volstad Marine and began its first contract with BG Norge on 28 July. Yesterday
N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (Gasunie) and Royal Vopak (Vopak), strategic partners in Gate terminal, today announce that Gate terminal has signed a long term throughput agreement with E.ON Ruhrgas AG (E.ON Ruhrgas) from Germany, one of Europe’s leading energy companies. E.ON Ruhrgas has committed itself
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 6 August 2008 at 6 am (EET) Wärtsilä-Hyundai Engine Company Ltd., the new joint venture between Wärtsilä and Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea, has received a major order. The order calls for a total of 16 Wärtsilä 50DF-engines for four ships to be built by
