Statoil has responded to questions put by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) in connection with its report into the Gullfaks B gas leak on 4 December 2010. “Concern with health, safety and the environment (HSE) is our first priority,” says Øystein Michelsen, executive vice president for Dev
Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced that C-Innovation has placed a contract for multiple ROV systems in support of their expanding international operations. This contract includes the supply of both HD™ and UHD™ work class ROV systems that will be deployed globally, includi
Ulstein Design & Solutions has signed two ship design contracts with the Brazilian Shipyard Alianca S.A for the building of two ULSTEIN PX105 platform supply vessels with the X-BOW® hull line design for the Brazilian shipowner CBO. The contracts are worth approximately NOK 150 million. The contracts
Ulstein Design & Solutions has signed two ship design contracts with the Brazilian Shipyard Alianca S.A for the building of two ULSTEIN PX105 platform supply vessels with the X-BOW® hull line design for the Brazilian shipowner CBO. The contracts are worth approximately NOK 150 million. The contracts
Havila Shipping ASA achieved a result before tax of NOK -25,5m in Q1 2011, compared with NOK -14,8m in Q1 last year. Total revenue amounted to NOK 309.6 million in the 1st quarter of 2011 of which NOK 51.4 is profit from sale of Havila Saturn. Total revenues for corresponding period last year were [
Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced today commencement of drilling operations on the Ruche Marin-A exploration well located in the offshore waters of Gabon, West Africa. This exploration well will be drilled utilizing the Transocean Sedneth 701 semi-submersible drilling unit. The Ruche Marin-A
Technip’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, held on April 28, 2011, ratified the cooption of Marie-Ange Debon(1), which was announced in 2010. In addition, the Annual General Meeting approved the nomination of two new female directors, C. Maury Devine(2) and Leticia Costa(3), thus bringing the
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) of India has awarded Baker Hughes a five-year contract to provide drilling and evaluation services and to manage third-party services for the Platinum Explorer drillship. Under the terms of the contract, Baker Hughes will supply directional drilling, measuremen
Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. announced today, that through its subsidiary Gulf Marine Fabricators, it has signed a Letter of Award for the fabrication of a hull for a Williams deep-water Gulf of Mexico project. Revenue and man-hour backlog is included in the Company’s consolidated backlog reported
NOAA and partners conducted 11 ocean explorations in the Gulf of Mexico during the past ten years, providing a foundation of information against which to measure change to the region’s ecosystems — changes that may relate to the Deepwater Horizon event that took place a year ago. With this foundatio
The Tognum Group subsidiary MTU is displaying four diesel engine lines at the Offshore Technology Conference, May 2-5, 2011, in Houston, Texas. The products displayed have been designed specifically to power products used in the exploration and production of oil and gas. Applications in which MTU pr
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the publication of the 2010 Annual Report for its indirect subsidiary Subsea 7 Inc. for fiscal year 2010 which ended on December 31, 2010. Subsea 7 Annual Report 2010 Subsea 7 S.A. is a seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor to the offshore energy
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) of India has awarded Baker Hughes a five-year contract to provide drilling and evaluation services and to manage third-party services for the Platinum Explorer drillship. Under the terms of the contract, Baker Hughes will supply directional drilling, measuremen
On the morning of 29 April, Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, China’s leading private shipbuilding enterprise held the ship naming ceremony at its Zhejiang Shipyard for GPA696, the global first fabricated model of Offshore Support Vessel(OSV) built for France’s Bourbon Company. Afterwards, a sea trial
