Sparrows Group, and its cable and pipe-lay solutions (CPLS) division, has been awarded a contract by Oceaneering to design and manufacture two 500-tonne powered and jack-able under-rollers. According to the company, the new under-roller system is suitable for use with reels of up to 11.4m outer diam
The naming and launch ceremony of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) JUN YANG 1 took place on Saturday, 19 December 2015, at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The dredger is being built for CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co., Ltd (GDC), and the ceremony was performed by Ms. Li We
Stone Energy, an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, has announced that its Amethyst well, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, will come online in January 2016. According to Stone’s operational update from Monday, the Ensco 8503 deep water drilling rig concluded completion op
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has just released an aerial photo of the ongoing project to deepen the federal channel of the Delaware River and use the material to build a dune and berm at Broadkill Beach, Delaware. This project involves dredging as needed within the existi
Oil and gas giant Chevron on Monday said its unit, Chevron U.S.A., signed a non-binding LNG supply heads of agreement with China Huadian Green Energy.
Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG), the North Sea focused oil and gas company, now owns 100% of licence P1609 which contains the Skipper discovery, in the UK North Sea, and is the licence operator. Namely, IOG completed the acquisition of 50% of the licence from Alpha Petroleum Resources. As IOG prev
Ocean Installer has been awarded an offshore wind contract with Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH. “We are very pleased that we are able to secure a very interesting project within the offshore renewables wind market and demonstrate our capabilities on such a project,” says Steinar Riise, CEO Ocean In
Work on the next phase of the Leith Flood Protection scheme improvements in north Dunedin will start next month, according to the Otago Regional Council (ORC). ORC director engineering, hazards and science, Gavin Palmer said that Downer EDI Works Ltd. has been awarded the contract to complete planne
MAN Diesel & Turbo recently signed a deal to provide dual-fuel propulsion system for a new DP3 semi-submersible crane vessel (NSCV) built by Sembcorp Marine in Singapore for Heerema Offshore Services.
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the maritime and logistics service provider, has signed a contract with CGG to provide offshore agency support services for a new oil and gas exploration project in the Barreirinhas Basin in the equatorial margin of northern Brazil. CGG is conducting the multi-clien
India’s Cochin Shipyard has completed all requirements to be licenced by France’s GTT to build LNG carriers with the Mark III membrane containment system, according to India’s ministry of shipping.
World’s largest oilfield services company Schlumberger has executed a contract with Norway’s Statoil for a large part of WesternGeco’s Campeche wide-azimuth (WAZ) deepwater multiclient seismic survey in the southern Gulf of Mexico, off Mexico. The license also includes collaboration with WesternGeco
McDermott and India’s Larsen & Toubro (L&T) have been awarded a contract covering the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of major subsea field infrastructure for the ONGC Vashishta and S1 Development Project, a greenfield deepwater development off India’s east coast. A consortiu
Dutch subsea and survey specialist, Fugro, has been awarded a contract extension by Mexican national oil company, Pemex, to support its exploration drilling activities in the Bay of Campeche. The latest deal follows previously secured $13-million extension for the October campaign in support of expl
