DeepOcean Group Holding AS (“DeepOcean Group” or “the Company”), an integrated provider of subsea engineering and trenching services, today appointed Bart H. Heijermans as their new CEO effective February 1, 2012. The announcement represents the next step in DeepOcean Group’s development into a lead
“Statoil has completed a fantastic year, both in terms of exploration successes, and the development of our portfolio on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS),” says Øystein Michelsen, executive vice president for Development and Production Norway. According to Michelsen the NCS will remain the back
Jumbo transported two huge Ship-to-Shore Kalmar cranes, combined with a total of 7 knocked down RTG’s from Taicang, China to Cartagena, Colombia for its client Cargotec. Since the STS cranes were too big to handle in their fully assembled shape, both cranes were shipped in (still respectable) parts
STATS Group, a company specializing pipeline engineering, has completed an isolation project on behalf of AMEC to allow maintenance and replacement works on the North Everest platform in the central North Sea. The workscope covered three maintenance valves and one ESD valve on a 20-inch gas import l
SubC Control have released two new products for underwater use, the Angler and the Battery 7800. Angler is a high quality standard definition camera. Excellent low light capability, quality optics and build materials set this camera apart from the competition. Digital noise reduction, back light com
Serica Energy plc has been offered a further two Production Licences in the final stage of the 26th Round of UK Offshore Licensing announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Block 110/8b in the East Irish Sea has been offered to Serica as operator with a 100% interest. The work commit
Grenland Group, a full-service engineering, procurement and construction company based in Norway, has been awarded a contract for two PetroFlame® burner booms for the semisubmersible drilling and intervention rig, Island Innovator. Island Innovator is owned by Marine Accurate Well ASA (Maracc), and
Providence Resources P.l.c., the London (AIM) and Dublin (ESM) listed oil and gas exploration and production company, confirms that its wholly owned UK subsidiary PR Singleton Limited has been offered a frontier exploration licence over six blocks in the Rathlin Basin, offshore Northern Ireland by t
Apache Corporation has completed its previously announced acquisition of Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Mobil North Sea Limited assets including the Beryl field and related properties for a previously agreed amount of $ 1.75 billion. Apache has assumed operations of the Beryl, Nevis , Ness, Nevis South,
Statoil’s drilling of the Skinfaks South well in the North Sea has been completed and the estimated volume is between 1.9 and 6.9 million barrels of oil equivalents. This is the fourth infrastructure-near discovery in the Gullfaks area in a 10 month period. Light oil has been confirmed in Middle Jur
OceanSaver today received DNV Type Approval certification of its revolutionary next generation ballast water management technology, Mark II. “We have successfully passed all DNV Type Approval requirements guaranteeing that our newest BWT technology, Mark II fully meets the requirements of the Intern
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued guidance to oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) extending existing guidance on how to conduct archaeological resources surveys and prepare
Statoil has chosen to take out an additional two-year option on the existing contract for diving services with Technip Norge AS. According to a cooperation agreement, ExxonMobil and Gassco could also be potential users of this contract. The manned underwater operations will be conducted from DSV Ska
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola Empresa Pública (Sonangol, E.P.), Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin, a discovery well. The Azul-1 well, the first to penetrate pre-salt objectives in Angolan deepwater, wa
