First Selectman Mike Tetreau has announced that the Town of Fairfield will host a Public Informational Meeting regarding the Riverside Drive Coastal Resiliency Planning Grant on Tuesday, July 12th at 7:00 pm in Seminar Room 295 A&B at the Board of Education Administrative Offices in Fairfield. At th
Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore has informed that its client Statoil will suspend the contract for the semi-submersible rig Songa Delta after the current well, Slemmestad, in the North Sea. Songa informed on Tuesday that from end of June 2016, the rig will go on 75% suspension rate of $2
OneSubsea has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract totaling more than $170 million from Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel). OneSubsea will supply the subsea production systems for the first stage of the Zohr gas field, located in the Shorouk Concession, offshore Egypt
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has conducted another successful trial transit in the Expanded Canal. The transiting vessel, a U.S.-built crane ship named the Oceanus, was maneuvered through the Pacific-facing Cocoli Locks by Panama Canal Pilots Fernando Jaén and Ricardo Varela. The Inauguration of
Novatek of Russia secured the services of Nuovo Pignone for the maintenance of the equipment at the Yamal LNG plant currently under construction.
McDermott International has been awarded further pipeline work for 2017 under a multi-year offshore installation contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company (BSP). The work includes transportation and installation of pipelines and umbilicals in the Fairley and Ampa fields offshore Brunei. The full
COSCO Dalian Shipyard has handed over the second module carrier (MC) vessel, the BigRoll Bering, to Dutch heavy marine transportation provider BigRoll Shipping. The vessel will immediately begin module transportation work for an LNG project in Russia. The vessel measures 173 meters in LOA, 42 meters
Seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor Subsea 7 has signed a three-year contract with Xait. Xait is Norwegian company behind the software XaitPorter. XaitPorter is a cloud based software that enables several contributors to work on the same document at the same time. “Su
Weeks Marine has completed works on the segment four of the Navarre Beach Renourishment Project in Santa Rosa County, Florida. During the past week, crews on the Navarre Beach project continued filling the fourth and final segment, including restoration of dunes. Approximately 210,000 cubic yards of
Ezra has received the awards for several new deepwater projects from international oil majors valued at approximately USD 300 million. The awards will be executed in various offshore regions in the Gulf of Mexico, Southeast Asia and West Africa. Furthermore, the awards include Ezra’s largest project
Lekoil, an oil and gas company focusing on operations in West Africa, has said that it is closing in on commercial production at Otakikpo field in Nigeria. The field development plan for Otakikpo, located on the shoreline in the south-eastern part of the Niger Delta, consists of two phases: Phase 1
British oil major BP has made a final investment decision for the development of its Atoll discovery in Egypt. The company has sanctioned a ‘fast-track’ development of the gas discovery located in the Mediterranean Sea. The project, which is an early production scheme, will bring up to 300 million c
DOF Subsea and Technip joint venture has secured a contract with Brazilian oil major Petrobras for the vessel Skandi Niterói. The Skandi Niteroi is designed for pipelay, subsea construction, installation and maintenance work and can operate in up to 2,300 meters water depths. According DOF, the cont
Works on the phase III of the Cocoa Beach 200 Channel Dredge Project are underway, according to the city officials. The phase one of the project included engineering and permitting. Phase two was the clearing and redevelopment of the designated spoil island in the North Thousand Islands near the 200
