Incat Crowther has announced the launch of the 20m monohull crew boat Ahuva. Built by Veecraft Marine in South Africa, Ahuva will join 30m monohull crewboats Perez and Deborah in the C&I Leasing fleet in Nigeria. Ahuva is specifically designed for efficient safe crew transfer to offshore energy inst
Statoil Petroleum AS has been granted consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 7220/5-1 in the Barents Sea with the Aker Barents mobile facility. The well is an appraisal well that is part of the assessment of the Skrugard field that has been discovered in the adjacent block 7220/8, product
On December 15, a new drillship owned by Etesco Drilling Services LLC. was delivered at Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.’s Geoje Shipyard in Korea. At the naming ceremony held on the day before the delivery, the drillship was named Etesco Takatsugu J. NYK director and managing corporate officer Hit
Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the engineering, construction and transport of a 23,000 ton truss Spar hull for their Lucius project in approximately 7,100 feet (2,165 meters) of water depth in the US Gulf of Mexico, with first oil being scheduled in 201
Russian International News Agency (RIA Novosti) reported today that an oil rig has sunk off the coast of Russia’s far eastern Sakhalin Island. The jack-up rig, named Kolskaya, overturned during the towing operations and sunk in the icy Ohotsk Sea. Rescue workers have recovered four bodies, and 50 mo
Aegion Corporation’s subsidiary, The Bayou Companies, LLC, has been awarded a contract to coat approximately 80 miles of 16-inch and 18-inch diameter oil and gas pipelines for the Shell Mars B deep water development. In January 2012, Bayou will begin inner-diameter coating, outer-diameter coating, c
Acta Marine B.V. and Almatug Ltd are expanding their partnership in West Africa by strategically relocating the multicat “Coastal Assistant” to this area. The vessel will be marketed and operated under joint management of the partners. The companies have been partnering with each other for many year
OGX, the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private-sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, and OSX, a private Brazilian corporation that provides equipment and services to the offshore oil and natural gas industry via integrated operations in naval construction, chartering of
California based oil major Chevron has awarded Transocean Honor jack-up rig a three year contract in Angola on a dayrate of $149,000, excluding escalation. The world’s largest drilling contractor said in its Fleet Status Report that the operations are expected to commence during the first quarter of
The Gazprom headquarters hosted yesterday a meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Rovnag Abdullayev, President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). The parties tackled the Gazprom and SOCAR cooperation issues surrounding the gas supplie
Singapore’s Otto Marine Limited, a leading offshore marine company which specialises in building complex offshore support vessels, ship chartering and offers specialised services, has deployed a 8000 bhp AHTS, “REDFISH 3” to Africa. The AHTS “REDFISH 3” was completed at Otto Marine’s yard in Batam a
COSL, an oilfield services provider in the offshore China market, announced today that its deepwater engineering survey vessel “HYSY708” was successfully delivered in Guangzhou. Mr. Cao Shujie, Vice President of COSL and representatives from the ship builder CSSC Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding Compa
Italy based Saipem has been awarded new E&C Offshore contracts in South America worth approximately $600 million. In Brazil, Saipem has been awarded an EPIC contract by Petrobras for the development of the gas export pipeline Lula NE – Cernambi, in the Santos Basin Pre-Salt Region, approximately 270
The Government of Ivory Coast has given a green light for Rialto Energy’s Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the Gazelle Field located in CI-202 . The FDP approval will allow the fast track development of the Gazelle Field resulting in production start-up in Fourth Quarter 2013 at initial oil rates
