Alfa Laval, a company specializing in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has won an order to supply fresh water generators to an oil platform in the North Sea. The order is worth approximately SEK 50 million (USD 7.3 million). Delivery is scheduled for 2012. The Alfa Laval fre
Coastline Surveys Ltd has recently completed two large Geotechnical Vibrocore campaigns for Hanson Aggregates Marine Ltd (HAML). The first work scope comprised 58 core locations offshore Norfolk. Specialist Geotechnical Survey Vessel, MV Flatholm, was mobilised and work scope completed with Coastlin
Rialto Energy Limited, a private company focused on exploration in Africa, provides the weekly update on drilling operations at the Gazelle-P3 Well as at 06:00hrs, 16 April 2012 (GMT). The Gazelle-P3 well was spudded on 12 March 2012 using the Transocean GSF Monitor jack-up drilling rig. The well is
Deep Down, Inc., an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services announced that it has been awarded multiple contracts worth nearly 8 million dollars from a major international oil and gas operator. Deep Down will
Sonardyne International Ltd has received an order valued at over £2.1 million from international oil and gas turnkey contractor, Saipem. The order includes six SPRINT systems and associated acoustic positioning equipment making it Sonardyne’s largest sale of acoustically aided inertial navigation te
The Danish transport company has been awarded an extensive logistics contract in China and Brazil in connection with construction of FPSO unit – floating production, storage, offloading – to the Oil & Gas sector.
TDW Offshore Services announced that it has completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation in Qatar on behalf of a major supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The operation took place at the customer’s LNG complex in Qatar. Natural gas is transported from platforms offshore Qatar through seven
Norway’s Aker Solutions has won a contract from Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd to supply a complete drilling equipment package for a new jack-up drilling rig, being built by the Chinese yard. The contract value is undisclosed. The new rig is of the 2000E jack-up design, and the contract includes o
AF Group has signed a letter of intent to purchase 90 percent of the shares in 5D Group AS. The agreement is conditioned by a due diligence and an approval by the board of directors of AF Gruppen ASA. 5D Group is a supplier to the offshore industry, mainly within engineering, electrical and instrume
Finding a suitable destination for dredged material can be challenging. Although most dredged material is clean, people’s pre-conceptions about the quality of dredged material are often quite negative. The discussion, the pros and cons, about where and when dredged material can be used or placed is
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has been selected to supply its sophisticated new Launch and Recovery System (E-LARS) for Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV), for installation on a new Forland Shipping AS subsea vessel currently under contruction at Havyard Leirvik, Nor
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has been selected to supply its sophisticated new Launch and Recovery System (E-LARS) for Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV), for installation on a new Forland Shipping AS subsea vessel currently under contruction at Havyard Leirvik, Nor
JFE Steel Corporation, in cooperation with Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., has received an order for approximately 150,000 tons of DNV-grade-450 UOE line pipe for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Wheatstone is one of Australia’s largest resource projects and involves the con
Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion and new building announced today that it has delivered Self Elevating Platform Samrat to the owner, Mumbai, India-based AFCONS Infrastructure. The Platform was built at Drydocks World – Dubai shipyard. The Self Elevating
