DOF Subsea Norway AS has been awarded a Frame Agreement for Offshore Survey Services by Statoil. The 4-year frame agreement with 2 x 1 year options includes services for light construction, ROV survey with MultiBeam Echosounder (MBE), ROV survey w/o MBE, acoustic survey, acoustic survey with ROTV, a
An independent Anglo-French oil company Perenco on Friday announced it has signed an agreement with Sinochem Petróleo Brasil Ltda, the 100% owned subsidiary of Sinochem Corporation (Sinochem) to farm-out five concessions in the Espirito Santo basin, offshore Brazil. In exchange for acquiring 10% wor
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has today taken delivery of “Normand Arctic” from STX OSV AS, Langsten. “Normand Arctic” is a large LNG fuelled platform supply vessel (PSV). The vessel will be trading in the North Sea for Statoil for a firm period of 3 months with additional 5 montly options. [mappress
Trapoil has sold, subject to DECC and partner approval, its 10 per cent. working interest in its Lacewing asset (P.1181, Block 23/22b) (“Lacewing”) to ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited (“ConocoPhillips”) for a consideration of £1 million (the “Consideration”) to be satisfied in cash on completion of the
Bridge, the Oslo Axess-listed oil and gas exploration and production company signed an agreement in December 2011 for the crude oil sales from the Duart field with Shell Trading and Shipping Company (“STASCO”). The acquisition of a 50% equity interest in the Duart field from Nexen was completed in D
Mario Kerssens has joined the CargoMaxx team at Van Aalst Offshore & Marine, inventors of the multi application tank system CargoMaxx, as Manager Business Development, starting the 1st of January 2012. After serving the shipping and offshore industry for more than 20 years in senior sales, marketing
The MV “Lone” has completed her upgrade from DP class I to DP Class II. The Heavy Lift vessel, which is part of the SAL fleet, was upgraded during the month of December in the dry-dock of the German shipyard Norderwerft (Sietas Group) in Hamburg. With this configuration, her unrivalled service speed
Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), has taken delivery of GREATSHIP VIDYA, a 150T Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel, from Drydocks World-Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore. Greatship Vidya is a Class II DP vessel equipped with Fire Fighting Capability and has been built complying with the new SPS Code 2008
UAE-based Oceanic Marine Contractors (OMC) has taken delivery of its state-of-the-art Oceanic 5000, which will service the offshore oil and gas construction sector. The vessel, the largest of its type in the region, is designed for worldwide operations and will focus on the installation and removal
One of Australia’s leading gas producers, Santos, is expected to commence gas production from its Wortel project offshore Indonesia by month’s end, reported Reuters today, quoting Indonesian upstream oil and gas regulator BP Migas. Santos’ gas field field is situated 7 km west of the Santos-operated
French supermajor Total has signed two exploration licenses with the Mauritanian government that gives it, as operator, a 90% interest in Block C 9 in ultra deep offshore and Block Ta 29 onshore in the Taoudeni basin. The block C 9 is located approximately 140 kilometers offshore Western Mauritania,
Bergen Group BMV AS is awarded a contract for rebuilding work on the high-capacity seismic vessel Polar Duchess. The project generates immediate activity at the yard, and will be completed by the end of 1st quarter 2012. The contract, which has a value of approximately NOK 17 million, comprises the
China Oilfield Services Limited （“COSL”） has received a letter of endorsement from the company representative of PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited （“PTTEP”） in appreciation of a recently contracted operation performed by the COSL HYSY719 seismic vessel offshore Myanmar. HYSY719’s
Marin Teknikk AS, a company providing engineering services for shipyards and ship owners in the offshore industry has signed an agreement with Shinan Heavy Ind. Co., Ltd. in Korea for design and engineering of the company’s new PSV vessel. The vessel is a Multipurpose Field Supply Vessel & Pipe carr
