SPT Offshore installed 9 Suction piles for Bibby Offshore for Ithaca Athena FPSO mooring. For Bibby Offshore, SPT installed nine (9) suction piles of OD 5.5-6.5m x 10-11m deep. The suction piles will be used to moor the Ithaca Athena FPSO in 140m water depth. SPT’s strong SAPS-004 suction pump was u
Leading international oilfield services company Expro, has secured a contract worth in excess of $6 million (£3.7 million) with Hess Australia for an appraisal drilling campaign off the North West Shelf of Western Australia. The contract is due to commence in quarter four 2011 and the Jack Bates sem
A Turkish ship began exploring for gas off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, the Turkish Cypriot government said, an announcement that escalates…
After an urgent call from one of the customers, FN Diving Rotterdam organized a team to attend the vessel the next day in the Dominican Republic. On arrival the FN Diving team was ready to start immediately with the inspection and repairs after some local preparations. After consulting their propell
Neptune Marine Services Limited announces it has entered into an agreement to sell the Company’s Australian fabrication division to privately owned engineering group Kempe Engineering. Kempe Engineering will purchase the business for approximately $0.4 million while Neptune will retain the existing
Aker Solutions has been selected to supply a subsea umbilical to Det norske oljeselskap ASA’s Jette field. The order is worth approximately NOK 60 million. Det norske’s initial order is for six kilometres of static electro-hydraulic stainless steel umbilical. The umbilical will include electrical an
CGGVeritas announced today that it completed acquisition of a 3D survey with BroadSeisTM, its unique broadband marine solution, for Chevron Norge AS. The minimum commitment for the program comprised acquisition of a 3D survey over a 2,190 km2 area west of Bodø in the Norwegian Sea. Due to good progr
TGS has commenced the acquisition of a new multi-client 3D seismic survey offshore Sierra Leone. This survey marks over ten years of investment for TGS in the West African region and will add 1,038 km2 to the existing TGS data library. Upon completion, TGS will have over 6,200 km2 of contiguous mult
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced that it has confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters. The SS Gairsoppa was a 412-foot
A BP Plc-led group may consider a another pipeline project to transit natural gas from the Shah Deniz deposit in the Azeri sector of the … Paul Abelsky (Bloomberg) [mappress] Source: Bloomberg, September 26, 2011;
Statoil and its partners have submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Skuld field on the Halten Bank to the authorities. Norne operations vice president Anita A. Stenhaug, handed over the plan to Norwegian state secretary Per Rune Henriksen during a ceremony at Statoil’s office i
Two hundred years on from the first recorded landing, researchers have compiled the first ever high-resolution map of the underwater seabed and reefs around Rockall. On September 8, 1811, a Royal Navy officer with a small crew landed on the isolated North Atlantic islet and scaled the 19 metre high
AGR Field Operations announced that they have been awarded a global Framework Agreement with Statoil for the delivery of pre-operational Operations and Maintenance studies. This agreement will supply Statoil with analysis and support to their Capital Value Process for Operational Assurance providing
Van Oord’s new flexible fallpipe vessel, the Stornes, was christened on 24 September. The event, which was attended by hundreds of guests and Van Oord employees, took place at the Wilhelmina dock in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The christening ceremony was performed by Mrs J. van Vonno, wife of forme
