UK based Coastline Surveys Limited, were contracted by Calegeo, a trading division of Calecore Ltd, for a Alcatel Lucent cable burial assessment survey recently broke their own water depth record with their C-Pen40 seabed CPT system. Under the survey a total of 44 CPT’s were completed along the prop
2H Offshore has moved to strengthen its global management team with the appointment of Tim Eyles as its managing director and David Walters as a principal director. The appointments have been made as one of 2H’s founders Steve Hatton leaves Acteon in search of new challenges. Steve was hugely influe
Recently Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visited the Havila-ship Seven Havila from Herøy while the ship was in Randaberg. Afterwards he told Stavanger Aftenblad that he has learned a lot from the visit and that he never earlier have been aboard a offshore-vessel as big as this. Seven Havila is the w
In July 2011 T.O.S. (Transport & Offshore Services) and Sheffield Offshore Services have joined forces to broaden their range of high quality personnel services. The new venture is called ‘TOS Sheffield Pte. Ltd.’ By joining forces, they will be able to supply a full range of crew, consisting of bot
Bourbon Front, the first of four platform supply vessels of the PX105 design from ULSTEIN built at Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., was delivered to Bourbon Offshore Norway at 6 September 2011. The vessel features an overall length of 88.80m, breadth of 19.00m, DWT of 4250T, and maximum speed of 15.5
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has announced details of dredging works in Sembawang Basin. Dredging works, with effect from 18 Sep 11 to 30 Sep 11, will be carried out by the work barge “Rhea“. The work barge will be held in position by spuds and will have a circular safetyworking zone of
Bourbon Front, the first of four platform supply vessels of the PX105 design from ULSTEIN built at Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., was delivered to Bourbon Offshore Norway at 6 September 2011. The vessel features an overall length of 88.80m, breadth of 19.00m, DWT of 4250T, and maximum speed of 15.5
The most representative maritime event in Asia, Marintec China 2011, will be held from 29 November to 2 December 2011 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) in Pudong, Shanghai, China. It will break the 2009 record in terms of both the size of the exhibition area and the number of exhibit
Noble Corporation today announced the resignation of Thomas L. Mitchell, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, who is leaving to pursue another opportunity, following a brief transition period. “Tom has been an important part of Noble’s growth and success over the past five years and we
Wood Group Kenny has been appointed by BP to provide engineering design and project management services for the subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) infrastructure for BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment project West of Shetland. Wood Group Kenny is responsible for the design of $1.2 billion worth o
ConocoPhillips announced today that it will establish a fund related to the incidents at the Peng Lai 19-3 field in Bohai Bay, China. This fund will be designed to address ConocoPhillips’ responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws of China and to benefit the general environment in Bohai Bay.
TTS Energy AS, subsidiary of TTS Group ASA, has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with OSX WHP 1 & 2 Leasing B.V, subsidiary of OSX S.A of Brazil, for delivery of two complete wellhead platform drilling units (WPDUs). The companies are aiming to enter a firm contract within short time. The scope of wo
The ports of Liège and Antwerp have decided to collaborate more closely with each other. Since 2006 the two port authorities have worked together in an economic collaboration association to market the Trilogiport multimodal platform in Liège. The two parties now seek to collaborate even more closely
Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV) has been providing 24/7 personnel access for Pearl 1 Platform – one of two platforms providing offshore gas to Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project in Qatar – since the completion of sea trials in December 2010. Using the 20-metre Offshore Access System (OAS), mounted on t
