INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announces that INPEX has been granted the Permit WA-494-P (the Block) at the Australian Offshore Petroleum Acreage Release 2012, through its subsidiary INPEX Browse Ltd. The Block is located approximately 400km north-northeast of Broome, off the coast of Western Australia,
In the last few days on Giglio island platform n° 2 has been installed. It is the fifth of 6 subsea platforms that will provide a safe supporting structure for the wreck after it is rotated into a vertical position (“parbuckling”, as this is known). The platform, which was built at the Rosetti shipy
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a two-year contract extension from BG Group to continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and project management support for all of BG Group’s facilities in the central North Sea. The
Subsea 7 S.A. announced a contract award by Anadarko and their partners for the Heidelberg development in the Gulf of Mexico. The work scope includes the engineering, fabrication, and installation of risers, pipelines, and flowlines in water depths over 1,600 metres. Project management and engineeri
In order to verify the fact that its Offshore Windfarm Crew Transfer Vessels were among the best in the business, Island Shipping decided to look back through the transfer logs. While operating for 20 months on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm, the Island Tiger and Island Panther carried out 37,20
In order to verify the fact that its Offshore Windfarm Crew Transfer Vessels were among the best in the business, Island Shipping decided to look back through the transfer logs. While operating for 20 months on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm, the Island Tiger and Island Panther carried out 37,20
DONG Energy’s unit interest in one of its major assets, the Norwegian gas field Ormen Lange, has increased from 10.34% to 14.02%. The increase in DONG Energy’s unit interest is based on an agreed redetermination process initiated by the Ormen Lange partners and concluded in June 2013 in the form of
On Monday 13 May 2013 the Life Extension Program (LEP) for Walrus class submarines has officially started. During a meeting at the location of the Royal Dutch Navy in Den Helder (the Netherlands), commodore Hans Lodder and Sytze Voulon of Imtech signed the execution order. This order is a follow up
The first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using floating LiDAR in European waters has kicked off in the Irish Sea. FLiDAR NV has deployed one of its innovative LiDAR buoys for DONG Energy in the southern East Irish Sea. DONG Energy, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, selected
A group of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research began their journey to South Africa yesterday. However this trip south is no summer holiday, but rather the start of a special journey: on Saturday, 8 June 2013 the research vessel Polarstern wil
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the Atlantic Margins focused oil and gas exploration company, confirms that the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Namibia has approved a one year extension to the First Renewal Period for Block 2714A, held in partnership with Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V.(30%) (Operator), BP (45%)
Santos announced a gas discovery at the Bassett West-1 exploration well in WA-408-P, located in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia. Bassett West-1 is located approximately 475 kilometres north-northeast of Broome and approximately 90km east-northeast of the Crown-1 discovery, made in the ad
Technip inaugurated its Innovation and Technology Center located in France, close to Paris, on a unique site in Rueil-Malmaison. Patrick Ollier, Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, and Thierry Pilenko, Technip’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, were both present for the occasion. This center already brin
BG Group announced the start of commercial production from a third floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel on the Group’s discoveries offshore Brazil in the pre-salt Santos Basin. The Cidade de Paraty FPSO is the second unit deployed on the giant Lula discovery and is located appro
