Houston-based BPZ Energy and Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced the successful load out and sail away of the world’s first Buoyant Tower drilling and production platform destined for installation at BPZ Energy’s Corvina field located offshore Peru
McDermott International, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a contract by Williams Partners L.P. for transportation and installation services for a Spar hull in the Gulf of Mexico. The value of the contract is included in McDermott’s second quarter 2012 backlog. McDermott w
Pharos Offshore Group has completed cable repair and burial for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm on a section of damaged subsea export cable. Pharos delivered a work package with the rapid mobilisation of engineering, fabrication and operational teams to locate, recover, re-lay and re-bury the po
Technip was awarded a five-year inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) frame agreement contract by ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited for various assets in the Central, Southern North Sea and East Irish Sea. The contract covers diver repair and maintenance solutions for the company’s existing U.K. subs
Recently the Stemat Spirit completed work laying and burying the third export cable at London Array Offshore Wind Farm. This is the third of four export cables which run from the onshore substation at Cleve Hill to the two offshore substations at the wind farm site. The cables carry the power genera
KD Marine, specialists in commercial diving for the offshore oil and gas industry, has completed a subsea engineering contract for work on the Sevan Hummingbird Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea. KD Marine was awarded the seven-figure contract by energy servic
Leading international oilfield service company Expro announces today that it has secured four significant subsea completion landing string contracts in its Europe CIS region for work in 2012, 2013 and beyond. More than $25million worth of new subsea business has been secured in Norway with various k
As the famous saying goes “success breeds success” so it is no surprise that leading engineering, materials technology and composite processing firm Gurit have taken the proactive approach in 2012 to showcase their excellence as it relates to tidal energy. Recent increase in support for Wave & Tidal
As part of the Sakhalin III project, Gazprom has launched construction of the production wells in the Kirinskoye gas and condensate field located on the Sakhalin Island shelf. To date, one exploratory well is being switched to the production regime. In addition, the Company is planning to launch con
Lockheed Martin Corp, the biggest supplier of information technology for Pentagon and the U.S. federal government, turns its focus on developing technology for the oil and gas industry, Reuters Reports. A 10-foot unmanned submarine that uses sonar and other technologies has been developed in a water
CNOOC Limited announced today that Yacheng 13-4 gas field has recently commenced production successfully. Yacheng 13-4 is located about 72 kilometers southwest of Sanya, Hainan Province, in the north part of the South China Sea with an average water depth of about 85 meters. This project was designe
Stone Energy Corporation announced financial and operational results for the second quarter of 2012 and provided updated guidance. Some of the highlights include: – Produced 40.5 MBoe (243 MMcfe) per day during the second quarter of 2012, which represents a 4% increase when compared to the second qu
SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad (“SapuraKencana”) announced that it has on 30 July 2012 received a contract award from PTTEP Australasia Pty Ltd (“PTTEP”) for the provision of the subsea support vessel “Normand Clough” to support the hook-up and commissioning activities of the Montara Development Pro
The most detailed photographic survey of the abyssal ocean floor has been taken by the National Oceanography Centre’s robot sub, Autosub6000 – some half a million photos that will be stitched together to form a ‘street view’ map of the North Atlantic’s Porcupine Abyssal Plain and its inhabitants. Fo
