Palfinger Marine has won a contract to supply davit cranes for DONG Energy’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. Palfinger Marine will supply a total of 56 davit cranes which will be installed on the platform of each wind turbine at the site. The offshore
Aker Solutions has been awarded two framework agreements to provide concept and front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for BP globally. The first contract is for feasibility and concept engineering and the second is for FEED services covering the full range of upstream developments. Each a
Shell has submitted a decommissioning plan for the Brent oil and gas field to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Following submission, an extended 60-day public consultation has been initiated on recommendations to decommission the North Sea field. The field, located
Eni has started production from the East Hub Development Project, in Block 15/06 offshore Angola, ahead of schedule. Production is taking place through the Armada Olombendo floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which can generate up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day and compress u
US-based wave energy developer GWave has unveiled plans to deploy a 9MW wave energy device at the Wave Hub testing center in UK.
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has ordered a new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) based on a design from Salt Ship Design. The new vessel will be built by Cemre Shipyard in Turkey and will be operating for DONG Energy after it is delivered in Q4 2018.
Seatricity Scotland has conducted an analysis of the works required to decommission its legacy infrastructure at the EMEC site if a new project does not materialize due to lack of investment or other factors.
Halliburton has released the ‘Dash Large Bore Subsea Safety System’, which provides full electrohydraulic control of well safety and intervention functions. The system is said it brings new benefits to deepwater operators for completion and intervention work that improve critical well control of the
An undisclosed Norwegian limited company has signed an agreement with Olympic Shipping for the purchase of two vessels, Olympic Commander and Olympic Hera. Further to the purchase, the new owner company has entered into an agreement with DOF for management and operation of the two vessels, whereby D
Offshore marine contractor Maersk Supply Service has recorded a loss (continuing operations) of USD 1.2 billion in 2016 against profit of USD 147 million in 2015. The underlying loss was USD 44 million, versus profit of USD 117 million for the year 2015. The result was impacted by an impairment of U
Polarcus, Oslo-listed seismic contractor, has secured an extension of a 3D marine seismic project in South America. The company received the project award in December 2015, and completed the first phase in August 2016. The second phase is scheduled to start in March 2017 and will be acquired over th
ADUS DeepOcean and DeepOcean Ghana have recently completed a deepwater subsea 3D laser survey off the West Coast of Africa for Tullow Oil. According to DeepOcean, it is the first extensive commercial survey of its kind, heralding a new era of high resolution, cost effective data acquisition subsea.
Dutch provider of hull cleaning and inspection equipment, Fleet Cleaner, has completed its first hull cleaning trial by cleaning the HNLMS Karel Doorman, the largest vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy. In the Dutch port of Den Helder, the company has removed the fouling of the vessel by using its
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