Sirius Petroleum has taken delivery of two sets of Cameron SOLIDrill modular compact wellhead systems in Nigeria.
Strainstall, part of James Fisher and Sons, is set to provide two load shackles for Sustainable Marine Energy’s (SME) floating tidal energy converter (TEC) platform. Following installation of the PLAT-I tidal platform by SME, instrumentation and data gathering is being carried out as part of a proje
The keel laying ceremony for DEME’s cutter suction dredger ‘Spartacus’ took place today at the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel in the Netherlands. The ceremony marks a milestone in the construction of the most powerful cutter suction dredger that has ever been built. “The combination of
Drydocks World has signed a contract with SBM Offshore to construct the turret mooring system (TMS) for Statoil’s Johan Castberg floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Drydocks World will be responsible for detail design of certain specified works, bulk procurement and constructio
ROVOP will increase its fleet by 50% following a funding boost of £56 million from Blue Water Energy and BGF. The funding has enabled the company to increase its fleet to 24 remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), with the new assets being acquired from Tidewater in Houston. Steven Gray, the CEO said: “T
Dubai’s Drydocks World will construct parts of the turret mooring system for an FPSO to be deployed at Statoil’s Johan Castberg development in the Barents Sea. The shipyard has received the contract from the Dutch company SBM Offshore. The Johan Castberg FPSO will be permanently moored by the intern
Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has secured two contracts for 3D and 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisitions. The 3D OBN seismic acquisition will be undertaken for BHP over the greater Angostura field in shallow waters, offshore Trinidad. The 225 km2 Trinidad proj
Remotely operated vehicles operator ROVOP has decided to increase its fleet by 50 percent following a funding boost of £56m ($75m).
The Sabetta project (North Russia) was Jan De Nul’s biggest logistic challenge in the last couple of years, the Luxembourg based dredging and marine construction company said in their annual report. The Sabetta Port is being built to transport gas stocks from Siberia to Europe and Asia with LNG tank
Huisman China installed, commissioned and tested the 3,000mt offshore mast crane on board Boskalis’ Bokalift 1 within 27 days. The Bokalift 1 crane vessel was converted by Boskalis from a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel to a self-propelled DP2 crane vessel. The main focus of the vessel will be th
DOC-Swan Hunter, a joint venture partnership between Dutch Offshore Contractors and Swan Hunter, has completed spooling operations for their first onshore cable storage project at the newly established storage & cable spool yard in Vlissingen, The Netherlands. The re-scheduled and expedited project
Singapore-based Ultra Deep Solutions has signed a letter of intent to build a SALT 310 well intervention vessel at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) yard in Shenzhen. The vessel, 162 meters by 32 meters, will be capable of well intervention, flex lay and rigid pipe lay in 3000 meter water depths
South Korean shipbuilder, DSME held a demonstration of its self-developed LNG cargo containment systems ‘Solidus’ and ‘Mctib’, and an indirect glycol water type re-gasification system at its Energy System Research Center in Geoje shipyard.
Oilfield services company, Expro, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of the next step in its financial restructuring. As previously disclosed, the company has reached an agreement with its key lenders and shareholders to eliminate its entire $1.4 billion of funded debt and $80 million in an
