Turbine Transfers Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Holyhead Towing Company, has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract by RWE npower renewables to provide six crew transfer vessels for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. In addition, the company will provide two more vessels for the German Nor
SNC-Lavalin announces that it has been awarded a contract by Statoil ASA to carry out the front-end engineering design (FEED) for an approximately 20,000-tonne substructure, part of the Bressay offshore development located in the UK sector of the North Sea. “We’re very pleased to continue supporting
The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), will embark on her next mission, IODP Expedition 337: Deep Coalbed Biosphere off Shimokita- Microbial Processes and Hydrocarbon System Associated with Deeply Buried Coalbed in the Oce
Fluke Engenharia, an Acteon company, has won a new contract from Subsea 7 to fabricate 27 suction piles for use in the Guará–Lula field, which is part of the pre-salt cluster in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. Fluke Engenharia will manufacture the products at its Macaé facilities and will deliver
Installation of the PNG LNG Project’s 407-kilometre offshore pipeline is complete, after the two sections of pipe were recently connected. This major milestone was performed by the Castoro 10 Shallow Water Lay Barge. The pipeline was laid in two sections over eight months, using two vessels, one sta
Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services has received a contract from Total E&P Angola for providing subsea intervention services from the oil services company’s purpose-built intervention vessel, Skandi Aker. The agreement marks a breakthrough for vessel-based intervention services in deep
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and production company, whose shares are quoted in London (AIM) and Dublin (ESM), provides a resource update on the Barryroe oil field in the North Celtic Sea Basin, offshore Ireland. Providence (80%) operates Barryroe on behalf of its p
Shell announces today that it has signed two offshore oil and gas Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) with CNOOC, and a PSC amendment with CNPC for a new development phase for the Changbei gas field in China. Shell has also entered an agreement with CNOOC for its participation in two Shell explorati
MMT is surveying the area in which a prized 16th century warship was recently discovered. MMT’s M/V Askholmen & Triad are currently being used to support further research and investigation of this historical wreck which lies 70m below the surface of the Baltic Sea. In 1564, Swedish warship Mars met
ShawCor Ltd. yesterday announced its pipecoating division. Bredero Shaw, has received contracts with a value in excess of US$40 million from the Consortium between Dragados Offshore and Swiber Offshore Construction and from Tubacero S.A. de C.V. to provide pipeline coatings and related products and
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) yesterday initiated the first ever drill designed to deploy critical pieces of state-of-the-art well control equipment to the ultra-deep seabed of the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to exercise the oil and gas industry’s response to a potential
Admiralty Shipyards recently started sea trials for the research and expedition vessel RV Akademik Treshnikov. The trials are scheduled to last for 11-day and will be conducted in the Gulf of Finland near the island of Hogland. The RV Academic Treshnikov is a scientific and expedition vessel built f
Scientists at HR Wallingford have received research funding for a pilot project aimed at investigating the measurement of cohesive sediment properties using high frequency underwater acoustics. The primary aim of this project is to derive semi-empirical algorithms that can be used to calibrate Doppl
WorleyParsons announces that Chevron North Sea Limited has selected WorleyParsons and its INTECSEA subsidiary to execute the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the facilities associated with the Rosebank field, which include a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) and subsea in
