MHI Vestas has been appointed as the preferred supplier of V164-8.0 MW turbines for the 252MW Deutsche Bucht project in Germany. The preferred supplier award includes a 15-year full scope service package, maximising the power production on site, MHI Vestas said. Albert Jochems, CEO of Deutsche Bucht
TransCanada Corp said on Monday it had offered about $848 million in cash to purchase Columbia Pipeline Partners. Columbia Pipeline Partners is the master limited partnership affiliate of Columbia Pipeline Group that was recently acquired by TransCanada. TransCanada said earlier this year it was rev
Ultra-long distance towing and anchor handling vessel built for Dutch shipping company ALP Maritime Services has been named at the Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Chiba Shipyard in China. The vessel named the ALP Defender, was christened by Caroline Steenbergen of ALP Maritime Services on Tuesday.
RJE International, a provider of products for underwater navigation and aquatic safety applications is celebrating 25 years in business. RJE International manufactures underwater products including diver navigation, diver sonar and underwater relocation products. CEO, Robert Jechart said: “We’ve bui
Tellurian Investments on Monday said that another former executive of Cheniere Energy, R. Keith Teague, joined the company as executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Lukoil, Russia’s largest privately-held oil company, together with the ministries of emergency situations of Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran, has held a joint emergency response exercise in the Caspian Sea. The company said last Friday that the exercise was a part of the Caspi
Oilfield services provider Petrofac has completed a well decommissioning contract for the oil company Tullow Oil in the Southern North Sea. Petrofac said on Monday that its differentiated approach to decommissioning, in support of Tullow Oil’s well plugging and abandonment campaign in the Southern N
U.S. oil and gas firm Noble Energy, Inc. has executed a gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) to supply natural gas from the giant Leviathan gas field, off Israel, to the National Electric Power Company Ltd. (NEPCO) of Jordan for consumption in power production facilities. Under terms of the GSPA,
Hyperdynamics Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration firm with an offshore block in Guinea, has seen an increase in its drilling success chances offshore the West African Country. The company on Monday said it had received an updated exploration risk assessment of its top two drilling p
Norwegian oil giant Statoil in November 2015 signed a contract with Jacktel, a Master Marine AS subsidiary, for the provision of accommodation services at the giant Johan Sverdrup field, offshore Norway. It was then agreed that Jacktel’s accommodation rig Haven, to be deployed for the job, would und
Sea Trucks has secured a contract for its Jascon 31 vessel from Permaducto S.A. de C.V. (Protexa) for the provision of Accommodation and Heavy Lift services in the Gulf of Mexico. Sea Trucks will provide accommodation and lifting services in support of repair works at Pemex Line 221 at the Abkatun-A
The review of the Pacific NorthWest LNG project by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has reportedly found that major remedial measures have to be taken to avoid adverse environmental impact.
Malaysian TH Heavy Engineering Berhad (THHE), building offshore structures for the offshore oil and gas industry, is parting ways with McDermott, the U.S. engineering and construction firm. Namely, the companies are, by mutual agreement, terminating several joint venture firms they had established i
The largest of the Dutch Wadden Sea Islands, Texel, is connected by a modern ferry service from Den Helder. The service has been operated since 1907 by ship owner Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming (TESO), which is a company owned almost entirely by the inhabitants of the island Texel. The fleet exi
