Tullow Oil has approved a 2,550 square kilometer seismic survey on the Orinduik block offshore Guyana. According to Tullow’s partner Eco Atlantic, the survey, to be carried out by WesternGeco, will begin in the next two weeks. Tullow, the operator, holds a 60 percent stake in the block, with Eco Atl
More than 50 pupils from Buckingham Park Primary School learnt about the dangers of flooding and what can be done to prevent it, on a recent visit to the Shoreham Adur Tidal Walls scheme. The Shoreham Adur Tidal Walls scheme is being carried out by Mackley as part of Team Van Oord, working on behalf
DOF Subsea North America has been awarded of a 5-month contract for Skandi Chieftain in Canada. Skandi Chieftain, which was re-flagged under the Canadian flag in 2016, is a multi-purpose vessel operated by DOF Subsea Canada. The contract is scheduled to start in June 2017, the provider of integrated
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, recently awarded RLB Contracting Inc. a $5.3 million maintenance dredging contract for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Texas Main Channel Across San Antonio Bay. The contract, announced on the fbo.gov website, includes maintenance pipeline dredg
Heerema Fabrication Group’s yard in Zwijndrecht, The Nederlands has held the load-out of the jacket for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project. Statoil awarded Heerema the contract for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the unmanned wellhead platform at Oseberg Vestflanken 2 in February 2
Norway-based marine transportation service company I.M. Skaugen reconfirmed its long-term charter contracts for a small-scale LNG project in Africa.
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), the Netherlands-based manufacturer of large structures for the oil and gas industry, posted a photo on social media on Tuesday showing the load out of the jacket for Statoil’s Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project. In a caption accompanying the photo, the company said that t
Deep C has secured a contract from Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) to undertake soil plug removal inside subsea piles, as part of the Beatrice offshore wind farm development. Seaway Heavy Lifting will install 84 jackets for the Beatrice wind turbines and two jackets for the offshore transmission modules.
The Town of Duck has just reported that as of yesterday, June 6, all three dredges are on-site and fully operational. According to the report, the Liberty Island dredge arrived back on-site June 5 and resumed dredging around 5:45 that evening. The dredge, working at the southern end of the project z
TechnipFMC has entered into a three-year frame agreement with Woodside Energy in Australia for riserless light well intervention (RLWI) and subsea services, including intervention, installation, and plug and abandonment services. Under the agreement, TechnipFMC will initially perform installation an
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has just announced that work on the Absecon Island Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project in Atlantic City, NJ, is progressing well. According to the Corps, the ocean-going hydraulic cutter suction dredge C.R. McCaskill is conducting dredging
The trailing suction hopper dredger Mahury has arrived at Dawlish Warren to begin works on the Beach Management Scheme. According to Teignbridge District Council, the Mahury arrived on the site and started with the recharge of the beach on Thursday, June 1. “Works have started between groyne 6 and 7
Aquatic has been selected to provide tensioning capabilities to DeepOcean on behalf of Subsea 7 for the Pharaonic Petroleum Company’s Atoll Main umbilical installation project in Egypt. Aquatic said it will provide its dual tensioner system solution to tension the umbilical during installation. Mart
Hyperdynamics Corporation’s subsidiary, SCS Corporation Ltd., and South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) have completed the closing of their previously announced farmout agreement. SCS and SAPETRO are now full 50/50 partners in the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the Republic of Guinea, with each
