Phase II of the Multipurpose Sea Cargo Complex Bronka (MSCC Bronka) has been put into operation, reports IAA PortNews. According to the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot), the document was signed by the Agency on December 16th 2016. Fenix LLC, investor and operator of MSCC Br
Nexans has been awarded a contract from Huawei Marine Networks to supply 6000 km of their submarine repeatered optical cables (ROC) for Phase II of the National Broadband Network (NBNII) project linking Cameroon and Brazil. The cable system will be manufactured and tested at Nexans’ Rognan factory i
Norwegian oil company Noreco will transfer its ownership in the Huntington oil field in the North Sea to Premier Oil. The company said Monday its subsidiary Noreco Oil UK entered into an agreement to transfer its 20% participating interest in the Huntington license with all rights and obligations to
All is ready for the next phase of the Whitianga’s Boat Ramp Project, reported today the Thames Coromandel District Council. Earlier this year the Mercury Bay Community Board supported this project which sets out the plan to improve existing boat and wharf facilities around the town. According to th
Russian giant Gazprom signed a number of agreements with Japanese partners during the visit of Alexey Miller, the company’s head, to Japan.
London-listed Sirius Petroleum said it has entered into a contract with Schlumberger for the provision of integrated services management (ISM). As part of Sirius’ shallow offshore development strategy in Nigeria, the contract is for a multi-well campaign, which should start in the first half of 2017
UK-based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy has completed the drilling and logging phase of the Lincoln well, located west of the Shetland Islands, after making an oil discovery. Hurricane started drilling the Lincoln well on November 8, 2016, with the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-sub drilling rig.
Australian oil company Quadrant Energy has made a gas and condensate discovery offshore Australia. The Phoenix South-2 well, within the WA-435-P exploration permit in the North-West Shelf of Australia, penetrated a definitive hydrocarbon-bearing interval at or near the primary Caley target. This wel
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has secured an order to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for Maran Gas Maritime, a unit of Greece’s Angelicoussis Shipping Group. Under the deal signed on Friday, DSME is to build a 173,400-cbm FSRU for Maran Gas. The cont
Kosmos Energy formed ties with BP through a US$916 million farm-out of assets in the Mauritania-Senegal basin.
Houston-based LNG engineer, KBR, has been selected to provide conceptual engineering services and pre-FEED and FEED engineering services across a range of BP’s projects.
Oil & Gas Giant to Build Dutch Borssele III & IV Offshore Wind Farms The Dutch government announced that a consortium of Shell, Van Oord, Eneco and Mitsubishi / DGE won the second Borssele tender. Following the announcement, the consortium revealed that the preferred supplier for the wind turbines i
Forland Subsea informed that EMAS AMC AS has defaulted on charter payment for the LCV/IMR subsea vessel “Lewek Inspector” due to financial distress. According to Forland, the company is behind on the payment for the month of October 2016, due November 30, 2016 and is ‘unable to settle the outstandin
Aibel has been awarded FEED study for modifications on Snorre A in connection with Snorre Expansion. The contract also has an option for the actual implementation phase. The Snorre field is to be developed further with a subsea solution to increase recovery. The production is to be hooked up to Snor
