Aban Offshore today announced that `Venture Drilling (a 50% indirect joint venture of the company) and Maersk Oil Angola (Maersk 0il) have reached a mutual agreement to amend their drilling contract relating to drillship Deep Venture, bringing the specified term of the contract to midnight of Apr. 2
Northern Offshore UK, a subsidiary of Northern Offshore, which is engaged in the provision of offshore contract drilling equipment and operating services for offshore oil and gas operators, has received a contract from Perenco UK, for the jackup Energy Enhancer. The contract is for a one-well progra
Tsakos Energy Navigation is reportedly close to signing a contract worth US$620 million for a new ultra-deepwater drillship, to be built at a South Korean yard. The order will be placed on condition that Tsakos firms up a five-year time-charter with a national oil company. The vessel to be ordered w
Oil services company Spectrum said it has started the fourth phase of its seismic programme in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The statement comes after the USA announced its Gulf of Mexico lease proposals, which called for the exploration and development of new offshore areas including the resource-ric
Aker Solutions has signed a frame agreement with Petrobras to supply 40 subsea trees for the Iara and Guará fields, located… [mappress] Source: Euroinvestor,April 20, 2010;
Neptune Marine Services Ltd (ASX: NMS) today announced that it has been contracted by Boskalis Australia to provide a range of diving support services on the Gorgon Project in Western Australia. Additional to the Gorgon works announced in January of this year, the latest contract comprises… [mappres
The world’s largest offshore wind power farm is under construction off England in the North Sea, but it won’t hold the title for long, as a Swedish developer plans a much larger wind farm further offshore in deeper waters, the Wall Street Journal reported. Because there is little room in its crowded
A review by independent consultancy Pöyry AS, entitled ‘Wind Energy and Electricity Prices’, asserts that wind energy reduces electricity… [mappress] Source: proactiveinvestors, April 21, 2010; windenergyplanning
As New Englanders await a decision in Massachusetts on a bitterly contested proposal to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm, the… [mappress] Source:BangkokPost, April 21, 2010;
As New Englanders await a decision in Massachusetts on a bitterly contested proposal to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm, the… [mappress] Source:BangkokPost, April 21, 2010;
She’ll speak Wednesday morning at a conference sponsored by the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. The two-day conference started… [mappress] Source: wjtv, April 21, 2010;
Yangzijiang Shipbuilders, together with its nonexecutive director Yu Kebing and an unnamed Middle East investor, have offered to buy Singaporebased PPL Holdings for US$155 million , the company said on Saturday. When the deal is completed, Yangzijiang will own 50.1 per cent of PPL Holdings, while th
CNOOC Limited announced today that the Company has successfully made an important new discovery — Penglai(PL)9-1 in the Eastern Bohai Bay. The new discovery — PL9-1 is located in the Miaoxibei Uplift in the Eastern Bohai Bay. The discovery well PL9-1-2 penetrated oil pay zones with total thickness o
CREATING an industrial revolution on the Tyne has been unveiled as a key strand of Labour’s North East manifesto.The party’s manifesto co… [mappress] Source: chroniclelive, April 20, 2010;
