Odfjell Drilling has kicked off drilling operations for Petronas offshore Malaysia with the ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepsea Metro I. The contract is for one firm well plus four optional wells. The contract duration for the drilling of the one well is approximately 60-70 days with an estimated val
Odfjell Drilling has started drilling operations for Petronas Carigali offshore Malaysia under a contract for one firm well plus four optional wells with the ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepsea Metro I. The drilling contractor secured new employment for the Deepsea Metro I with Petronas in April. Odf
Malaysian oil and gas giant Petronas has appointed its wholly-owned subsidiary Vestigo Petroleum to operate the Berantai field, offshore Malaysia, on its behalf. Vestigo will continue the operations and maintenance of the field following Petronas’ recent cessation of the Berantai Risk Service Contra
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District’s dredge CURRITUCK is hard at work this week conducting maintenance dredging of the Ocean City Inlet. The dredge arrived in Ocean City last Friday and started the inlet dredging operations Saturday, July 16. This dredging is focused specifically o
Engineering company Monadelphous on Wednesday said it has secured additional work at the Ichthys LNG onshore facility with JKC.
Det norske has informed that the Ivar Aasen platform was lifted and installed in the North Sea, offshore Norway, on Monday, July 18, 2016. The platform deck arrived in Norway earlier in July after a long journey from Singapore. The Norwegian oil company informed through its social media channels on
Norwegian seabed seismic services company, Magseis, has selected acoustic positioning equipment from Sonardyne for its upcoming ocean bottom seismic campaign in the Red Sea. Starting July, and working in partnership with BGP on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the S78 project is expected to last nine months
Oslo-listed Havila Shipping and subsea contractor DeepOcean have decided to modify the chartering contract for the vessel Havila Phoenix. The 2009 built subsea vessel was previously signed on a contract, with commencement in Q1 2014, for a firm period of 7 years with 4 optional periods each of 1 yea
MMT has signed a four year framework agreement with TenneT. The framework agreement runs from 2016 to 2020 and MMT has been selected for geophysical and geotechnical investigations both offshore and nearshore. The area to be surveyed is the electrical grid connection of offshore wind farms within Ge
Bangladesh signed two agreements on Monday with Excelerate Energy’s unit, Excelerate Energy Bangladesh to build the country’s first LNG terminal at Moheshkali Island in the Bay of Bengal.
Panoro Energy has announced that the commissioning of the Front Puffin FPSO, on the Aje field offshore Nigeria, has now been completed, and the FPSO is on hire following the 72 hour test. The FPSO arrived in Nigeria in March and first oil production from the Aje field started on May 3, 2016. The fie
Quadrant Energy, an independent oil and gas exploration company in Australia, is drilling ahead at its Roc-2 well, in the country’s North West Shelf. To remind, the Roc-2 appraisal well was spudded on Saturday, July 9, 2016, with the aim to test the Roc gas-condensate discovery in the Caley section
The Great Lakes Environmental & Infrastructure Solutions (GLEIS) is about to begin a routine sediment removal operations in three Novato creeks. The dredging, part of a routine schedule to prevent flooding during the rainy season, will start July 25 and should continue through the end of October, ac
Strainstall, part of James Fisher and Sons, has been awarded a contract with the Japanese Penta Ocean-Toa joint venture, for its mooring solution to be installed at the Pengerang Independent Deepwater Petroleum Terminal (PIDPT) in Malaysia. The phase two development of the terminal, comprising 11 ne
