Swire Oilfield Service has officially opened its new £4 million global headquarters in Aberdeen. The new headquarters are part of an overall investment in the business of £50 million this year to support the company’s international business development strategy, the company explained in a press rele
The GCC is set to become the new global shipping hub for the new trade routes between the east and the west, expert speakers at the sixth Seatrade Middle East Maritime said. Mohammed Al Muallem, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, DP World, UAE region, led a positive session on the first da
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd advises that at 06:00 hours (WST) today, preparations had commenced to run the Blowout Preventer into the Zephyros-1 well. Since the last report, a 30” conductor was set and cemented at 605 m, the 17-1/2” hole was drilled and the 13-3/8” surface casing was set and cemented a
Nakilat-Keppel Offshore and Marine (N-KOM) has been conferred the Ship repair/Shipyard award at the Seatrade Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Awards 2012 held on 26 November 2012 at Atlantis The Palm in Dubai. The win comes a month after the shipyard was named ‘Shipyard of the Year’ at the Lloyd’
In order to meet increasing demand and to provide added expertise for their expanding market presence, Danish based RESON has added two new resources, Mr. Adam Junner and Mr. Pim Kuus, to the company’s Aberdeen, UK based staff. “We welcome Adam and Pim to our organization and are confident that the
On 30 October, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) conducted an audit of Centrica Resources (Norge) AS (Centrica). The audit activity was conducted as part of the processing of Centrica’s application for consent relating to lifetime extension of the well, subsea facilities, production pipeli
SeaBird Exploration Plc announced the successful completion of a Private Placement of 11,000,000 new shares directed towards Norwegian and international institutional investors after the close of the Oslo Stock Exchange on 27 November 2012. The over-subscribed placement was made at a subscription pr
3.MAJ shipyard based in Rijeka, Croatia delivered yesterday, on November 27th,’BIT REDO’ tanker to PEGASUS BV, a Dutch company operating from Amsterdam. The tanker has been taken over from Kraljevica shipyard, after the latter was closed due to financial difficulties. ‘BIT REDO’ is a 108 meter long
Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the Perkpolder area development project. The project, commissioned by RWS (the Dutch public works agency), concerns a new nature area situated outside the protection zone of the dikes in the Westerscheldt estuary (southwest Netherlands). The contract value
The Havyard 843 CD designed vessel, Kan Tan 225, has been named and delivered to the major oil corporation of Sinopec in China. This is the first edition of the next generation of medium-sized AHTSs. Kan Tan 225 is designed by Havyard Group AS, with main offices in Fosnavåg in Sunnmøre, Norway and a
Drydocks World, the leading service provider to the global maritime and offshore oil and gas industry has entered into a multi-million contract with Premier Oil, a well-known oil exploration and production company with interests in several countries, to build subsea facility for Solan oil field, at
On 30 October, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) conducted an audit of Centrica Resources (Norge) AS (Centrica). The audit activity was conducted as part of the processing of Centrica’s application for consent relating to lifetime extension of the well, subsea facilities, production pipeli
Public Consultation on the European Commission Green Paper entitled “Marine Knowledge 2020: from seabed mapping to ocean forecasting” is open until 15 December 2012. The idea behind this paper is the need to unlock the economic potential of Europe’s wealth of marine observations. With the ‘Marine Kn
Taylor Engineering has assembled a team of dredging experts to provide the City of Dunedin with a cost-effective means to compile pertinent field data and regulatory information to evaluate the feasibility of dredging Lake Sperry and portions of Cedar Creek. The firm will provide professional engine
