Songa Offshore SE announces that its 100% owned subsidiary, Songa Rig AS, has received and accepted a Letter of Award (LOA) from Statoil for two newbuild “cat D” semisubmersible rigs. This award follows the agreement of July 2011 between Songa Rig AS and Statoil for the first two cat D rigs. The con
– 2011 was a year of good progress for GC Rieber Shipping, said CEO Irene W. Basili as the Company announced fourth quarter and full year financial figures today. – Operating revenue increased by NOK 65 million and operating profit before depreciation and capital gains by NOK 91 million. This reflec
The Northwest Energy Angels, the Pacific Northwest’s only angel group focused exclusively on providing early-stage capital to cleantech entrepreneurs, continued its mission of building a vibrant cleantech community in 2011 by investing more than $880,000 in nine cleantech companies, one receiving a
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has established a new department dedicated to developing its crane and lifting products for the offshore supply and subsea segment. The department, which opened officially in January 2012 is based in Molde, Norway, with production ta
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited welcomes the UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee report on ‘The Future of Marine Renewables in the UK.’ The report highlights the opportunities and benefits of developing a world leading marine energy industry and the need for th
Specialist divers battling strong tides and zero-visibility have completed a year-long project to cover parts of an exposed underwater pipeline in the Humber estuary. Teams from Hull-based commercial diving and underwater civil engineering company Northern Divers worked up to 60ft below the surface
Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery offshore Tanzania in the first exploration well in Block 2. Statoil announced on February 17 that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. The l
Superior Energy Services, Inc. announced net income of $19.4 million, or $0.24 per diluted share on record revenue of $580.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2011, and non-GAAP adjusted net income of $54.6 million, or $0.67 per diluted share, after excluding the following: * A pre-tax, non-cash $46
Statoil announced on February 17 that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. The logging results now show that the discovery is a high impact discovery, so far proving up to 5 Tcf of gas in-place. The well
MEO Australia Limited advises that the Commonwealth – West Australia Offshore Petroleum Joint Authority has approved MEO’s application to vary the Minimum Work Requirements of the WA-454-P Exploration Permit in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf region of the Timor Sea (Petrel sub-basin). The variation repre
A diverless and ROVless bend stiffener connector from subsea connector specialist First Subsea has enabled Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. to complete the tie-back of an umbilical connector from the Blackbird field to the nearby Ettrick field’s FPSO Aoka Mizu in the UK central North Sea First Subsea conduct
GeoRXT B.V., the joint venture between Georadar Levantamentos Geofísicos S/A and RXT, has been awarded its first contract in Brazil by Petrobras to conduct an Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) survey over the Marlim and Marlim Leste fields in the Campos Basin. The contract value is estimated to USD 103 milli
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has established a new department dedicated to developing its crane and lifting products for the offshore supply and subsea segment. The department, which opened officially in January 2012 is based in Molde, Norway, with production ta
Seven Greenpeace activists yesterday boarded a Shell operated drillship, the Noble Discoverer, thus preventing it from leaving New Zealand’s Port Taranaki for Alaska’s Chukchi sea, where the oil giant plans to drill three exploration wells. Lucy Lawless, an actress famous for her leading role in “Xe
