Varun Shipping Company has signed Rs 690 crore (USD 153 million) four year contract with Brazil state firm Petrobras to supply three … Source: MoneyControl [mappress] Source: Money Control, May 18, 2011;
A new tool will make searching murky, muddy Michigan waters much easier for the Ottawa County sheriff’s dive team… (hollandsentinel) [mappress] Source: hollandsentinel,May 18, 2011;
TGS commences the 2011 summer season with three 2D surveys in cooperation with Fugro; North Sea Renaissance 2011(NSR11), Mid-Norway Regional 2011 (MNR11) and Norwegian Barents Sea 2011 (NBR11). The data to be collected includes approximately 10,000 km for NSR11 which is a regional infill West of She
AGR Petroleum Services, Aberdeen, U.K., has reported it will undertake a multi-well, multiclient drilling campaign valued at £3 million on behalf of three international operators, utilizing the semisubmersible drilling rig WilPhoenix. The largest independent well management firm will drill four well
David Sandwell, a professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose activities range from advising NASA on marine geophysical initiatives to teaching incoming freshmen the science behind surfing, was named to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy announced t
Speaking at All Energy 2011, Andrew Reid, Douglas-Westwood’s Managing Director, today describes the prospects for the… (dw-1) [mappress] Source: dw-1, May 18, 2011
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Bui Dinh Dinh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Russia. The meeting participants shared the opinion that relationship
Nautilus Minerals has completed its 2010/11 seafloor drilling program, with the vessel, REM Etive, having demobilized in Singapore on May 16, 2011. During the drilling program in the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea, Nautilus completed a 99 hole diamond drilling project, for a total of 1475 metres.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) released its work plan for the Army Civil Works program through the end of fiscal year 2011 (FY11). The work plan details how USACE will execute the $5.065 billion Civil Works appropriation it received on April 15 when President Barrack Obama signed Public La
PTTEP reports the drilling results of an exploration well, Aung Sinkha-2, located in the exploration block – M3 in Myanmar. The block is located in the Gulf of Mataban, south of Yangon. The well was drilled to a total depth of 2,891 meters on April 30, 2011 and encountered natural gas bearing format
At the Norshipping exhibition (24-27 May, Oslo) Imtech Marine will launch its modular and flexible concept “Multiflex”. On the basis of this concept, Imtech Marine works closely with ship owners and builders and offers them a system independent expert advice and selection from a wide range of techno
Pipeline engineering specialist, STATS Group, has completed a six-figure valued pipework maintenance contract on behalf of Dolphin Energy in Qatar. STATS carried out the planned maintenance on a 36” gas pipeline onboard the DOL-2 platform in the North Field, the world’s largest single gas field, loc
This is the first images to be released of the 77.70-metre Feadship Tango. Launched at a strictly private ceremony at Royal Van Lent in April, the yacht has a very characteristic exterior styling, including a daring combination of a white hull with a metallic grey and blue superstructure. Tango is a
Dominion Petroleum announced that it has signed the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block L9 in the Lamu Basin, offshore Kenya, giving the Company a 60% working interest and operatorship. The Company previously announced the award of L9 on 21st March 2011 and the PSC was signed yesterday by Do
