Wärtsilä has informed that two new 150 ton bollard pull anchor handling offshore support vessels (AHOSVs), being built at the Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka, have been designed by Wärtsilä and will be powered by Wärtsilä integrated propulsion systems. The order was placed in August and the equipment
Deltamarin Ltd has entered into a contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd for the basic engineering of the Libra FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading unit). Deltamarin’s scope of work covers the marine part of the conversion of the Navion Norvegia shuttle tanker into the Libra FPSO. The c
A division of Unique Maritime Group (UMG), Unique Wellube, has provided mechanical seal plugs for Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company’s (ADMA-OPCO) significant pipeline isolation project. ADMA-OPCO’s 8” subsea riser was found to have some damages which would require a weld repair at the splash zone o
Technip was awarded a “substantial subsea contract” by Chevron Indonesia for the Bangka Development, located in Rapak PSC area, approximately 70km offshore the province of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and pre comm
Technip has been awarded a subsea contract by Chevron Indonesia for the Bangka Development, located in Rapak PSC area, approximately 70km offshore the province of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and pre commissioning
3D Oil Limited (TDO) has contracted a research/survey vessel Polarcus Asima to acquire the Flanagan 3D seismic survey in its T/49P Permit in the Otway Basin, offshore eastern Australia. The Flanagan survey is designed to mature a number of leads in northern part of the block, 3D Oil says. These are
As a part of President Obama’s continuing commitment to help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy and promote resilient coastal systems, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the state of Florida signed a two-year cooperative agreement totaling $200,000 to evaluate sand resour
Kleven’s Myklebust Verft in Gursken, Norway, has signed a contract for modification of the Aker Wayfarer vessel to become a deepwater subsea equipment support vessel (SESV). The contract is entered into with Ocean Yield ASA, a ship owning company with investments within oil-service and industrial sh
Cap Energy has informed that it is working to progress its interests offshore Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, by conducting a 3D survey scheduled for November, 2014. Sitting in the same basin as the Company’s Senegal assets, the prospective leads are distributed across a carbonate shelf that passes abru
Pipeline engineering specialist, STATS Group, has successfully completed a complex isolation of the Forties Pipeline System in the North Sea. STATS was contracted by Apache North Sea Ltd to safely isolate the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) so that subsea isolation valves (SSIV) and piping spools coul
Aiming at the global FPSO market, Subsea Vision has added another Saab Seaeye Cougar XT Compact to its ROV fleet. The compact concept is especially suited for working in strong currents and where the spread of equipment is small enough to need little deck space. The addition to their fleet follows e
The world’s first subsea wet gas compressor station is now ready for the final testing at Horsøy outside Bergen before being prepared for installation and hook-up to Gullfaks C in 2015. By adding 22 million extra barrels of oil equivalent from the Gullfaks South Brent reservoir the compressor will h
Statoil has informed that the “world’s first subsea wet gas compressor station” is now ready for the final testing at Horsøy outside Bergen before being prepared for installation and hook-up to Gullfaks C in 2015. By adding 22 million extra barrels of oil equivalent from the Gullfaks South Brent res
Subsea Vision has added another Saab Seaeye Cougar XT Compact to its ROV fleet. The compact concept is especially suited for working in strong currents and where the spread of equipment is small enough to need little deck space. The addition to their fleet follows expanded opportunities coming to th
