Vallourec subsidiary Serimax has been awarded the welding contract for the Gas Sul North Capixaba project by Subsea 7 in Brazil… (pipelinesinternational) [mappress] Source: pipelinesinternational, August 18, 2011;
Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (“GSP”) today announces buying the pipelay vessel Acergy Falcon from Subsea 7. Falcon is a highly versatile DNV classed pipelay vessel, 153 meters long, capable of installing rigid pipelines up to 14 inch diameter and also flexible flowlines and umbilicals. GSP expects to
Miclyn Express Offshore announced the purchase of three new Offshore Support Vessels. A Seismic Support Vessel has been purchased against a 3 year firm contract in Indonesia commencing in August 2011 and including 5 x 1 year extension options. Two newly built Multi Purpose Offshore Terminal Tugs wil
DOF Subsea Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of DOF ASA has secured multiple contracts awards in Asia and Australia over the last couple of weeks with a total contract value of about USD 47 million. The new build DSV Skandi Singapore and the CSV Skandi Hercules will be employed under these contracts. Steve
Fluor Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract by Chevron Neftegaz–one of three project managers engaged by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium–for its recently announced expansion project. Fluor will provide project services for the marine terminal and supervisory control and data syst
CGGVeritas is confirming its commitment to the emerging deepwater node market with an order to manufacture an additional 800 Trilobit four-component (4C) ocean bottom nodes (OBN) to make a total of 1,000 units in its equipment pool. The new nodes are expected to be commercially available by early 20
Serimax has been awarded the welding works for Total’s CLOV SURF project offshore Angola. This project, to be carried out in 2012 onboard Subsea 7’s new flagship vessel, the Borealis, involves welding of approximately 5500 welds of 10″ and 12″ pipes, at water depths between 1000 and 1400 meters. A l
Subsea 7 S.A. today announces that the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has decided not to refer the merger of Subsea 7 S.A. (formerly Acergy S.A.) and Subsea 7 Inc. to the UK Competition Commission for further investigation. The OFT considers that the divestiture of a rigid pipelay vessel competing
Mr. Bernt Omdal is appointed as new head of chartering in Siem Offshore. Bernt has been the Chartering Director of the company since November 2008 and has more than 20 years of experience within the maritime industry, including chartering, operations and shipbroking. Bernt reports to the Chief Execu
Iraq has awarded a $471.7 million contract for an oil export facility expansion and sub-sea pipeline to Italian group Saipem , Iraqi oil… (reuters) [mappress] Source: reuters, August 17, 2011;
Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) are sailing on the maiden scientific voyage of the U.S. Coast Guard’s newest ice… (sciencedaily) [mappress] Source: sciencedaily, August 17, 2011;
Mr. Kai Solberg-Hansen has decided to resign as Chief Financial Officer (‘CFO’) from SeaBird. In agreement with the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, the resignation takes effect from today. Mr Erik Hansen has been appointed the new CFO and will replace Mr Solberg-Hansen with immed
DOF Subsea announces that it has been awarded, in joint venture with Technip, its second flexible pipelay contract by Petrobras. The second ever pipelay vessel built in Brazil, Skandi Niterói has been awarded a four and half year charter and service contract. The vessel will be used for flexible pip
A salvage operation on a ship wreck 3200 meters below the surface of the South Atlantic has been successfully carried out thanks to the use of lightweight ropes made with Dyneema® ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber. Dyneema® fiber, the world’s strongest fiber™, is manufactured by DSM Dyn
