McDermott International has confirmed a major contract award from Saudi Aramco for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services in the Safaniya onshore and offshore field. According to McDermott, a major contract is in range between USD 750 million and USD 1,500 million. T
UPS, a global logistics company, operating over 5,200 LNG and CNG vehicles has agreed to increase use of natural gas as fuel for its fleet through a supply deal with Big Ox Energy.
Expro has received a five year contract extension for surface well testing services across several assets for an operator in the UK North Sea. The $5 million (£3 million) contract includes the clean-up of existing wells and the testing of a series of newly drilled wells and is due to begin later thi
i3 Energy has received an indicative proposal and confirmed support from two UK lenders for a senior secured credit facility to fund its Liberator field development in the North Sea.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has taken delivery of the new build ATB hopper dredge Ellis Island and tug Douglas B. Mackie after successful completion of United States Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping regulatory sea trials. David Simonelli, President, Dredging Division comm
Heerema Fabrication Group has cut first steel for the Peregrino II jacket, marking the beginning of the construction phase for the Statoil-operated project.
Finish technology group, Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply engines and equipment for Viking Line’s LNG-fueled ferry being built by at the Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry yard in China.
Well-Centric has secured a contract worth up to £300,000 per year with independent exploration and production company, Chrysaor. The one-year contract, which has two, one-year extension options, will see Well-Centric provide offshore services across three North Sea platforms: Lomond, Everest and Arm
MMT has started an offshore geophysical survey for the Aquind Interconnector project. The works will involve a geophysical survey of the proposed cable corridor between the landfall areas near Portsmouth in England and near Dieppe in France. MMT will utilize two vessels, M/V Franklin for offshore wo
SCAPE Landscape Architecture has just released renderings and images of the Public Sediment, a living infrastructure proposal for the San Francisco Baylands that will invest in marshes and mudflats to buffer vulnerable communities and ecosystems from the threats of sea level rise. The proposal is de
Mubadala Petroleum has abandoned an exploration well located in the G1/48 concession in the Gulf of Thailand.
BiFab Crisis: Workers Rally at Scottish Parliament as Unions Urge SSE to ‘Rein In’ SHL The trade unions supporting BiFab workers have called on SSE to ‘rein in’ the contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) and save 1,400 jobs in Fife and Lewis. On 16 November, SSE issued a statement saying that, as a 1
Appraisal drilling of Mexico’s first private offshore oil discovery Zama-1 is expected to begin in late 2018, at the earliest.
UK-based subsea engineering specialist Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) has successfully completed first stage testing in a pioneering project which is set to uncover valuable European mineral resources. SMD is technical lead on the ¡VAMOS! (viable alternative mine operating system) project, a 42-mon
