Drydocks World, a UAE-based maritime service provider today announced that His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman of Emirates Group attended the ‘sail away’ ceremony to mark the start of delivery of the pioneering Prelude FLNG Turret Modules to
CGG announced that Jason, a CGG company specializing in seismic reservoir characterization software and services, has launched version 8.4 of its reservoir characterization software suite. The powerful new release optimizes field development, reservoir management and well planning by providing a str
Centrica plc has taken the decision not to proceed with its new-build gas storage project at Baird in the UK Southern North Sea and to put its project at Caythorpe in East Yorkshire on hold indefinitely. This decision was taken in light of weak economics for storage projects and the announcement by
Expert marine data acquisition and consultancy company Partrac Ltd, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The three founding directors Kevin Black, Peter Wilson and Sam Athey, started the business in 2003 sitting around a table with just a pen, a notebook and a telephone. Partrac now has a solid repu
Vallourec announces the launch of a new offer for the offshore oil & gas market: the production of welded stainless steel tubes to be fitted into umbilicals. Although they do not transport any produced oil or gas, umbilicals are a key component in a subsea installation. They are used to connect the
Repsol Sinopec has adopted Paradigm software solutions and services for its major exploration projects in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The agreement provides licenses for the Paradigm interpretation software suite SeisEarth®, which includes such industry-leading applications as VoxelGeo® and St
Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland NV, has signed a North Sea contract with Maersk Oil UK to provide marine access support to the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Global Producer III. Located 185 miles north east of Aberdeen, Scot
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) has selected the monopile foundations design for the Icebreaker offshore project in Lake Erie. LEEDCo president Lorry Wagner was quoted as saying: “We picked the monopile design for the Icebreaker foundation after working with our world-class tec
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded a contract by CJSC Baltstroy for the dredging and construction of the Bronka Port shipping channel in St Petersburg, Russian Federation. The total value of the contract amounts to approximately EUR 130 million. The project involves the construction of
Technip was awarded by Statoil a contract to fabricate and supply flexible risers for several fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract also includes options for further risers and flowlines. These flexible pipes will be used to renew the flexible pipe based infrastructure on Statoil’s
The Australian-based Deep Sea Mining Campaign has congratulated the Namibian Government’s on its decision to place a moratorium on seabed mining. “The Deep Sea Mining campaign applauds the Namibian government’s decision to impose a moratorium for 18 months on marine phosphate mining” said Natalie Lo
The extraordinary shareholders’ meeting of Ackermans & van Haaren NV has on 25 November 2011 renewed the powers delegated to the board of directors to redeem shares for a period of 5 years. In the framework of these powers, Ackermans & van Haaren has concluded a liquidity contract with Kepler Cheuvr
Technip has been awarded a contract by Statoil to fabricate and supply flexible risers for several fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract also includes options for further risers and flowlines. These flexible pipes will be used to renew the flexible pipe based infrastructure on Stat
ION Geophysical Corporation announced the launch of NarwhalTM, the first fully integrated ice management system designed to reduce risk and improve efficiency in seismic data acquisition and drilling operations in or near ice, such as in the Arctic. The Arctic contains an estimated 25% of the world’
