Grandweld Shipyards has completed delivery of ‘ARADAH’, a 55m dive and maintenance support vessel (DMSV), especially built for ADNOC. The new state- of- the- art DMSV is the first from its class to be built by Grandweld Shipyards and will serve as the flagship to ADNOC offshore fleet operating in th
South Boats Special Projects Ltd. and Seacat Services Ltd., both Isle of Wight, UK based companies announce the signing of a contract for the construction of two further vessels. Both are South Catamaran 24m WFSV’s, named ‘Seacat Defender’ and ‘Seacat Volunteer’, and will be the fifth and sixth vess
The UAE-based Grandweld Shipyards has recently delivered ‘ARADAH’, a 55m dive and maintenance support vessel (DMSV), especially built for ADNOC. The new DMSV is the first from its class to be built by Grandweld Shipyards and will serve as the flagship to ADNOC offshore fleet operating in the region.
Huisman, the specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, successfully delivered the 600mt Wind Turbine Installation Crane onboard GeoSea’s DP2 jack-up vessel “Neptune”. The crane was handed over to the builder of the vessel IHC Offshore and Marine BV, part of IHC Merwede, who subcontracted
Bank of London and The Middle East plc (BLME), the largest Islamic bank in Europe, has announced that it signed a £14 million leasing deal with Global Marine Systems Ltd., the largest independent provider of submarine cable installation, maintenance and engineering services worldwide. Under the term
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd has secured shipbuilding contracts for seven vessels with an aggregate contract value of USD 206.2 million since the beginning of the year 2012. The new contracts secured comprise four (4) units of 82,000 DWT bulk carriers, two (2) units of 95,000 DWT bulk car
Anadarko’s Jupiter-1 exploration well in Block SL-07B-11 offshore Sierra Leone has encountered hydrocarbons. This has been confirmed by the results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluids. The well, located over 25 kilometres west of the Mercury-1 well which discovered oil in the
Grandweld Shipyards has completed delivery of ‘ARADAH’, a 55m dive and maintenance support vessel (DMSV), especially built for ADNOC. The new state- of- the- art DMSV is the first from its class to be built by Grandweld Shipyards and will serve as the flagship to ADNOC offshore fleet operating in th
DONG Energy announced that Tideway Rollingstone has commenced installing armour stones for scour protection and has almost finished the remaining positions in Walney 1 as well as 10 positions in Walney 2. Due to a minor fire late February 2011 onboard the vessel Pompei, it had to stop placing armour
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given consent to Statoil Petroleum AS for the use of Statfjord B beyond its design lifetime. Statfjord is an oil field located on both sides of the demarcation line between the Norwegian and UK continental shelves in the Tampen area. The field has been developed
Norway’s Farstad Shipping, a supplier of large, modern offshore support vessels, has secured multiple charter contracts. Statoil has declared their option to extend the contracts for PSV Far Seeker (2008, UT 751E, 4.905 DWT) and PSV Far Searcher (2008, UT 751E, 4.992 DWT) for a period of 12 months.
In November 2011, TenneT informed the German Federal Chancellery and the German federal ministries of economic affairs and the environment that the construction of connecting cables for offshore wind farms in the German part of the North Sea is no longer possible under current conditions. The curren
Leading German multipurpose and heavy lift operator BBC Chartering announces the introduction of a new liner service connecting Europe and Asia. The line offers bi-weekly sailings to Asia and departs every three weeks to Europe. The new service is marketed under the name “BBC Euro-Asia Express Line”
Navis Engineering Oy has received MED-B type approval for its latest generation AP4000 autopilot from classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV). Issued for a five-year period, the MED-B certificate provides assurance that the product complies with all the relevant international standards impos
