Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Stanislav Yudin has been deployed on the jacket installation at the Beatrice offshore wind farm as the heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov left the site to handle the substation installation at the Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea.
Australia’s Santos, the operator of the GLNG project on Curtis Island, received a new takeover proposal Harbour Energy valued at A$13.5 billion (US$10.4 billion).
Bahrain has said it has made a huge oil discovery off the west coast of the country, “the largest oil discovery since 1932.”
Providence Resources has been granted an extension to the term of the First Phase of FEL 6/14 offshore Ireland.
Offshore driller Rowan has secured a drilling contract for Rowan Viking with Shell UK Limited for plugging and abandonment work in the UK.
Norwegian geophysical player TGS will begin a multibeam and seep project in the Campos and Santos basins, offshore Brazil.
Lancashire-headquartered Cuadrilla has completed drilling the UK’s first ever horizontal shale gas well at its exploration site at Preston New Road.
Marine-i, the EU funded programme set up to boost the marine technology sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, is inviting applications for a £1 million innovation fund. The fund has been created to support research, development and innovation in marine robotics and autonomous vessels. Some of
Balearia’s first of two LNG-fuelled ferries, Hypatia de Alejandría, has been floated out.
The Department of Interior and BOEM will offer 77.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas exploration and development.
20-strong crew evacuated from Panama-flagged bulker following a fire.
Oil major BP is working on decommissioning of its Miller platform located in the UK sector of the North Sea.
Prosafe has further extended its standstill agreement with China’s shipbuilder Cosco for two semi-submersible accommodation rigs, Safe Nova and Safe Vega.
Highlights of the Month – March 2018
