Bergen Group Offshore has, through its subsidiary Bergen Group Rosenberg AS, been awarded an EPCIc-contract by Statoil with an estimated value of approximately 30 MNOK. The EPCIc-contract (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning) includes dismantling of permanent deck
Santos today announced that it had secured a contract to supply natural gas to the Minara Resources’ Murrin Murrin nickel and cobalt project in Western Australia. The contract with Murrin Murrin Operations Pty Ltd will see Santos supply 14.8 PJ of gas to the project from the offshore Reindeer field
The first ever ship of a Havyard design built for Chinese shipowners was last week launched in Shanghai. The vessel from the Herøy-based company Havyard Group is of an 843 design and was launched at Yuexin Shipbuilding on Friday 28th October. The AHTS will be named «KAN TAN 225» and is built for the
The Board of Directors of Otto Marine Limited announced that the Company or its nominee has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with Aries AP Limited or its nominee, in respect of the sale of a AHTS vessel, Hull 7061 (the “Vessel”) for consideration of US$19 million. The Company expects the Vesse
Statoil increases its equity in the Valemon project through an asset swap with Total. Statoil and Total E&P Norge AS have signed a sales and purchase agreement whereby Statoil acquires Total’s full share in the Valemon unit, 2.5% (5% in PL193B and carve-out of PL193) for a transfer of a 2.0% share i
Statoil has signed an agreement to acquire Hess’ 3.26% ownership in the Barents Sea Snøhvit Unit and adjacent production licences. Statoil acquires Hess’ 11.25% participation interest in PL097 and 8.33% participation interest in PL110 together constituting a 3.26% participation interest in the Snøhv
The huge Australian offshore gas project Ichthys will cost more than the anticipated total of $30 billion, the head of French oil major Tota… Reporting By Marie Maitre (Reuters) [mappress] Source:Reuters , November 4, 2011;
Mooring Systems Ltd has launched what is believed to be the most adaptable offshore, mobile spooler of its kind in the UK, that will offer significant advantages for clients operating in the oil and gas and the renewables markets. The spooler, which was designed and built by Caley Ocean Systems at E
Petrobras announces the new discovery of gas accumulation in the post-salt area of the Espírito Santo Basin, in Concession BM-ES-21 (Block ES-M-414), located 135 kilometers from the city of Vitória, in the state of Espírito Santo. The discovery was made during drilling operations of well 1-BRSA-983-
Aker DOF Deepwater a joint venture between DOF and Aker Solutions has today taken delivery of Skandi Pacific at STX Vietnam. The vessel is an AHTS of STX AH 08 design and is vessel number five in a series of six vessels from the same yard. Main specification of the vessel is as follows: L.O.A [&hell
Swire Pacific Offshore (“SPO”) took delivery yesterday in Qingdao, Mainland China of the last two of eight new “P” Class Anchor Handling Tug Supply (“AHTS”) vessels, Pacific Python and Pacific Porpoise, built by Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard, marking the successful completion of the major part of an ongo
With LoFS 14 now completed on schedule and without incident this closes another successful year of operating the portable source system for BP Norge AS, operator of the Valhall Field. LoFS 14 was WGP’s third operational survey of the Valhall field utilising the source sub-arrays of Thalassa Energy S
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries has won an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (“EPCI”) project for Oil and National Gas Corporation Ltd.’s (“ONGC”) Cluster 7 Development Program. The value of this award will be included in McDermott’s t
Apache Corporation reported production of 752,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day and earnings of $983 million, or $2.50 per diluted share, for the three-month period ending Sept. 30, 2011. These compare with production of 667,000 boe per day and net income of $765 million, or $2.12 per dilu