Rapidly growing and award winning energy services firm ROVOP is to create around 60 jobs to accompany the purchase of five remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The Aberdeen-based subsea specialist will invest around £15million over the next 18 months in the workclass hydraulic machines, supplied by FM
With relation to the Contracts of Purchase and Sale of ships, entered into with the South Atlantic Shipyard (Estaleiro Atlântico Sul – EAS), in connection with the Fleet Modernization and Expansion Program (Promef), Transpetro reports that: 1) The EAS complied with the conditions contained in the Ad
Rapidly growing and award winning energy services firm ROVOP is to create around 60 jobs to accompany the purchase of five remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The Aberdeen-based subsea specialist will invest around £15million over the next 18 months in the workclass hydraulic machines, supplied by FM
Brazil’s Communication Minister Paulo Bernardo announced that the submarine cable project linking Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, that will cost about US$500 million, should be ready in 12-15 months, BN Americas informed. According to Bernardo, the majority shareholders are Argentina, Brazil and Urug
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded yet another important order as part of the ongoing Brazilian programme to build a number of drill units (DRUs) to serve its offshore oil industry. This latest in a series of contracts won by Wärtsilä is to supp
Pupils from Dyce Academy in Aberdeen, UK, have been crowned winners of ICoTA (Intervention and Coil Tubing Association) and SPE Europe’s Energy Apprentice competition, beating three other Aberdeen and shire schools to the award. Along with Cults, Kemnay and Westhill Academies, the four schools were
On Thursday, 8 November 2012, a rupture was discovered in a blow-down pipe for feed water in the cracker in the Mongstad facility. The PSA has decided to investigate the incident. The incident was discovered on Thursday, 8 November, at approx. 0545 hours, through an unusual amount of noise coming fr
Centrica has awarded a contract to GL Garrad Hassan, the renewable energy consulting business of the GL Group, for the design, supply, installation and operation of an offshore meteorological mast system for their Celtic Array project in the Irish Sea. Located 15km north of Anglesey, the system incl
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded yet another important order as part of the ongoing Brazilian programme to build a number of drill units (DRUs) to serve its offshore oil industry. This latest in a series of contracts won by Wärtsilä is to supp
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded yet another important order as part of the ongoing Brazilian programme to build a number of drill units (DRUs) to serve its offshore oil industry. This latest in a series of contracts won by Wärtsilä is to supp
ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, has awarded Stevens Institute of Technology US $3 million. The donation will be used to create a new civil, mechanical and naval engineering laboratory complex in the Davidson Laboratory. The new complex will bear
Iran has started drilling the first development well at South Pars gas field’s phases 22-24. The Sina drilling rig, the same rig that drilled the phases’ first exploratory well, is drilling the development well, the IRNA News Agency reported. The first exploratory well of phases 22-24 of the South P
Diana Shipping Inc. announced that it has entered into a time charter contract with Cargill International S.A., Geneva for one of its Panamax dry bulk carriers. The bulker Arethusa was chartered at a gross charter rate of USD 7,300 per day, minus a 5% commission paid to third parties, for a period o
Yarmouth Coastguard has coordinated the response for two vessels working at offshore windfarms involved in separate incidents off the east coast of England on November 21. Windcat 9 issued a VHF DSC Mayday this evening offshore from Humber and reported that they were taking in water. Yarmouth Coastg
