Fugro has begun preliminary site investigations at the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Wind Farm Zone in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The site characterisation specialist will perform geophysical surveys from its 54-metre multi-purpose survey vessel, Fugro Pioneer and the 40-metre Victor Hensen. Accordi
ABB has received an order, worth around $140 million, from transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany to design, supply and install an HVDC converter station in Bentwisch, Northern Germany. The HVDC Light “back-to-back” converter station, the first of i
Technip Angola Engenharia Limitada, a joint venture between Technip and Sonangol, has secured a three-year engineering services contract from Total E&P Angola. This contract covers services for the existing Girassol, Pazflor, Dalia and CLOV floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units and
African Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration company, has announced that the new Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with Ophir Energy covering the company’s CI-513 licence area in Côte d’Ivoire or Ivory Coast is now effective. African Petroleum and Ophir entered the PSC for the Ivory Coa
Subsea cable protection specialist, Tekmar Energy won a contract with DONG Energy to supply 189 cable protection systems (CPS) on its Race Bank offshore wind farm in North Norfolk. Tekmar will provide its TekLink mechanical latch system complete with the array and export cables and bellmouths. The C
Offshore geophysical company Polarcus has announced the start of production in the first of a series of three 3D seismic projects offshore Brazil. The seismic company said that the project is being acquired using the Polarcus A-Class 3D seismic vessel, Polarcus Alima. The first project is being acqu
Havyard Ship Technology, a part of Havyard Group, has agreed with its client to cancel the shipbuilding contract for the new subsea vessel, building no. 123, due to the challenging offshore market. In October last year, both parties agreed to put off the delivery and that the buyer had the right to
Deep Down, a subsea oilfield services company, has received an order from Shell for an umbilical and distribution system to support a production platform mooring line control system. In addition to supporting platform positioning, the system will provide real time data collection during high seas an
Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine said on Wednesday it has acquired additional 44 percent equity stake in the Norwegian floating LNG specialist Gravifloat.
The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) has just released latest update for the cleanup of lead impacted sediment by hydraulic dredging in the Mill River. DEEP together with the contractor TRC recently completed the sediment dredging portion of the project and are curr
Rosneft Vietnam B.V., a company of Russia’s Rosneft group, has started drilling the exploration well PLDD-1X at Block 06.1, in the Nam Con Son basin, located offshore Vietnam. This is Rosneft’s first drilling project as an operator in the international waters. The design depth of the well will be ar
Exmar of Belgium said it has terminated the agreement with Pacific Exploration and Production executed in March 2012 for the deployment of the Caribbean FLNG in Colombia.
Cairn Energy, an oil and gas exploration and development company, has announced the testing of the SNE-3 appraisal well offshore Senegal, that will now be plugged and abandoned. Cairn re-entered the SNE-3 well on the SNE oil field, 100km offshore Senegal, in January and the well was drilled with the
Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday it has signed a deal with Tersan Shipyard in Turkey to supply the LNG propulsion package for a cargo carrier for Denmark’s BioMar Group and NSK Shipping of Norway.
