Seismic contractor Polarcus has secured a letter of award from an undisclosed client for 3D marine seismic acquisition in Australia. The Oslo-listed company said it plans to carry the survey by utilizing its XArray acquisition technique. According to Polarcus the broadband data acquisition project i
TGS has, together with Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS), agreed principal terms and conditions for jointly acquiring the majority of the multi-client library of Dolphin UK Ltd. The parties expect to enter into a definitive agreement for the acquisition in the near future. “The Dolphin library is a g
Pura Vida Energy, an Australian oil and gas company with operations offshore Africa, is working to develop its assets in the Nkembe shallow block, offshore Gabon. The company holds a 100 percent stake in Nkembe production sharing contract, which contains the Loba oil discovery (141m gross oil column
BP has ordered approximately 100 km of static umbilicals and associated accessories from Nexans for the next stage of the West Nile Delta project. This contract should help BP, and partner DEA (Deutsche Erdoel AG), develop the Giza, Fayoum and Raven gas condensate fields and for future discovered an
Wah Seong Corporation (WSC) informed that its pipe coating business unit, Wasco Coatings Europe (WCEu), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of WSC incorporated in The Netherlands, has finalised a deal regarding the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. Namely, WCEu signed a contract with Nord Stream 2 AG
Equinix has been selected by the Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide U.S. facilities and services for the cable landing station architecture to support the Monet submarine cable system. Monet is a planned submarine cable that is currently designed to deliver over 60 terabits of capacity betwe
Neptune has won a framework agreement with Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (Repsol Sinopec). The deal will see Neptune supply a range of ad hoc engineering and manufacturing services on behalf of the operator, in addition to the detailed maintenance of all Repsol Sinopec subsea equipment in the UK Conti
Gabadi of Spain said it has signed an agreement with a Chinese HRDD Shipyard (Huarun Dadong Dockyard) for the repair of liquefied natural gas carriers.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, will host a Western Everglades Restoration Project Delivery Team Meeting on Friday, September 16. The Corps will host this virtual meeting in order to discuss and seek input on the Western Everglades Restoration Project (WERP). Interested indi
Singapore-based Kreuz Subsea, a provider of integrated offshore subsea services, has launched its newbuild diving support vessel (DSV), the Kreuz Challenger, that is being built by the Norwegian shipbuilder Vard. The Kreuz Challenger was named earlier in September. It is scheduled for delivery from
U.S. Senator David Vitter issued the following statement regarding yesterday’s vote in the U.S. Senate to move forward with the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA), which will improve flood control and coastal hurricane protection throughout Louisiana. As the Chairman of the Senate Subcom
Italian oil company Eni has reached a production of 700 million cubic feet of gas per day, corresponding to 128,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) of which 67,000 net to Eni, from Nooros field, off Egypt. The field was discovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta in July 2015 and put into production i
Production has resumed from the Bualuang field in the Gulf of Thailand, following a 10-day shutdown. Ophir Energy, the operator of the field, said that production was restarted on September 2, after a completion of the final tie-in work of a water debottlenecking project. “This was a highly complex
Shanghai Salvage Company (also known as China Offshore Engineering Shanghai) has signed an order with SMD for a Quasar MKII 6000m remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2017, the system should include a full suite of equipment suitable for both deep sea salvage
