CGGVeritas has launched the Oceanic Vega seismic vessel at a naming ceremony held at the Ulstein Verft shipyard in Norway. The Oceanic Vega is the first of a new generation of Ulstein SX120 high-end, environmentally friendly vessels and the first of two X-BOW® vessels commissioned by CGGVeritas, the
Prosafe has been awarded a contract by BG International (CNS) Limited for the provision of the Safe Caledonia accommodation rig for the Gaupe and other projects in the North Sea. The firm period of the contract is 9 months with on site operations planned to commence March 2011. In addition Prosafe h
Tap Oil Ltd advises that it has relinquished an exploration block, SC-41, located in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines. The next phase of the service contract would have included a work program commitment to drill an exploratory well by May 2011. It was concluded that a well was not appropria
Incat Crowther announced that the firm has been contracted to design an innovative 28m Wave Piercing Catamaran Crew Boat to support offshore oil and gas operations. Developed in conjunction with Topaz Shipbuilding for a large petroleum firm, the vessel features a new and cleverly developed layout. A
The Canadian government’s top ice experts have begun planning how to deal with a massive iceberg that broke off a Greenland glacier last… [mappress] Source: Postmedianews, August 11, 2010: [mappress] Source: agr, August 11, 2010:
AGR Field Operations has signed a 3 year agreement with Seadrill Offshore AS for the provision of inspection and surveys according to authority requirements. The agreement covers all of Seadrill’s rigs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. AGR Field Operations will under this agreement provide service
Noble Energy, Inc. announced today that it has received government approval for the development of the 2009 Tamar gas discovery in the Mediterranean offshore Israel. Until recently, Noble Energy and its partners planned to develop Tamar using an option (Tamar North) that would flow gas from the deep
GEMS has commissioned a high spec DP2 vessel, the MV Normand Tonjer, for geotechnical wind farm work in the North Sea. The MV Normand Tonjer is fully equipped by GEMS for geotechnical services for wind farm turbine site investigations with new geotechnical drilling spread. A specialist deep 20 ton s
Authorities in Nigeria say they have ended a nearly three-week search for a worker who fell from a Transocean drilling ship off the coast… [mappress] Source: Canadianbusiness, August 10, 2010: [mappress] Source: canadianbusiness, August 10, 2010:
The geophysical service company WesternGeco received their new Ulstein SX124 design vessel ‘WG Cook’ from Drydocks World – Dubai (DWD) on 2 August. The ultra modern high capacity 12-streamer 3-D seismic vessel is the second of this design built at DWD for WesternGeco. ‘WG Cook’ measures 90.5 metres
McDermott International, Inc. announced one of its subsidiaries was awarded a contract to upgrade and enhance a water injection system for Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) in the Zakum field. The contract value is expected to be approximately $350 million and is included in McDermott’s
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver ENSCO 8503, the fourth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® semisubmersible drilling rigs being built exclusively for Ensco plc. ENSCO 8503 is scheduled to commence a two-year primary term with Cobalt International Energy, L.P. in the Gulf of Mexico in
Bjørge Eureka AS, a subsidiary of Bjørge ASA, has entered into a long term offshore contract for delivering of pump systems. The order value is estimated to be 100 MNOK (Approximately USD $16,7 million) divided over five years. Bjørge Eureka AS is a comprehensive pump supplier with long experience i
Dana Petroleum reports the successful flow testing of the recently drilled appraisal well at the Blackbird oil field, in the UK Central North Sea. The 20/2a-9 well, operated by Nexen Petroleum UK, was drilled in a water depth of approximately 367 feet to a total measured depth of 12,000 feet, target
