Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver ENSCO 8504, the fifth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs being built exclusively for Ensco plc . Keppel FELS expects to deliver the rig on time, within budget and with no lost time incidents. ENSCO 8504 h
Nido Petroleum Limited , on behalf of the SC 54B Joint Venture, wishes to provide the following update on the Gindara-1 well. At 06:00 hours on 20 June 2011 the current operation at Gindara-1 was recovering the wireline logging tool following completion of the logging program. The following summaris
Sierra Rutile Limited commences a series of briefings with investors and research analysts to provide an update on progress. The presentation includes a review of the expansion and optimisation projects currently under consideration at the Sierra Rutile mine as well as a summary of the positive deve
OSD-IMT, the UK arm of Offshore Ship Designers, has been chosen by Samsung and Boskalis-SMIT Engineering to develop the basic design, detailed design and production drawings for a 99 m cable laying vessel. Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, says, “This project illustrates perfectly the st
Ciner Shipping Industry & Trading, a subsidiary within Ciner Group, one of Turkey’s fastest growing commerce, industry and service conglomerates, has secured OceanSaver MARK II systems for two suezmax tankers at China’s Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry and four bulk carriers at SPP Shipyard in Kore
Tightening monitoring offshore by Canadian environmental regulators has prompted Castrol Offshore and its Canadian distributor K&D Pratt , to highlight the implications of existing guidelines that encourage the select ion of chemicals with superior environmental performance to minimise the potential
Scheldepoort Repair & Conversion Yard in Vlissingen has signed a contract for the conversion of jack up drill rig “GFS Labrador” into an accommodation rig. The project will commence when the rig arrives in Vlissingen at the end of June and will take approximately 4 months. Among other things the mai
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver ENSCO 8504, the fifth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs being built exclusively for Ensco plc . Keppel FELS expects to deliver the rig on time, within budget and with no lost time incidents. ENSCO 8504 h
On 17 June 2011 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Sovcomflot – the largest operator of ice-class LNG tankers – signed a contract with Gazprom Global LNG Limited (GGLNG), a subsidiary of Gazprom, for the long-term time charter of two ultra-modern ice-class LNG-carriers. The long-ter
Oil States International, Inc. announced that its Oil States Industries subsidiary has been awarded a contract from Subsea 7 to supply 27 FlexJoint(R) Steel Catenary Riser (SCR) terminations and 40 receptacle assemblies for the Guara and Lula NE oilfields in Brazil. This order represents part of one
In line with Tritech’s policy of continuous product development the Eclipse Multibeam Sonar system has undergone major software and partial hardware redevelopment, which encompasses the following updates: * The standard depth rating is now 1000m * Eclipse no longer has Profiling/ bathymetry capabili
Outfitting specialist Mivan continues its success in the cruise ship market having recently completed c£6m of interiors work on the Grand Princess, Crystal Serenity and P&O Adonia. Work on the larger of the projects, the Grand Princess began in mid April at the Grand Bahamas Shipyard and was complet
An offshore subsea trenching specialist is hoping to expand its footprint in the green energy market with a new owner… (nebusiness) [mappress] Source: nebusiness, June 17, 2011;
Woodside announced that it has revised the expected cost and schedule of the Pluto LNG Project following its regular review of the progress of the project. The first LNG cargo is now estimated for March 2012. The revised estimate is attributable to slower than expected progress on the commissioning