CEDA’s trademark event, the Dredging Days 2015 conference, has just begun at the Ahoy Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The conference, scheduled for 5-6 November, is taking place in conjunction with the Europort 2015 maritime trade show. This two-day show will address innovative dredging solutions for po
Linxtelecom has chosen Ekinops to provide equipment for a 4 Tbps (terabits per second) submarine optical ring linking the three major cities in the Baltic Sea. Ekinops announced that the Linxtelecom ring, over submarine cable, is now operational and connects Tallinn in Estonia, Helsinki in Finland,
Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project has completed the offshore pipelay for its 890-kilometer, 42-inch diameter gas export pipeline that began in June 2014. Inpex says it is the longest subsea pipeline in the southern hemisphere and the third longest subsea pipeline in the world. The gas export pipeli
Cairn Energy has spudded the first appraisal well on the SNE oil field located 100km offshore Senegal. According to FAR Limited, a partner in the project, the SNE-2 well will be drilled in approximately 1,100 metres of water and drilled to a TDVSS (total vertical depth subsea) of approximately 2,770
Heerema Fabrication Group informed that preparations are being made for the sail away of the Alba B3 jacket to Equatorial Guinea for Marathon Oil’s Alba field third gas compression platform. Heerema is the main EPCI contractor for the 6,000-ton Alba B3 compression platform. The 1500-tons jacket has
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) has reportedly issued a second tender offering a cargo from the QCLNG project on Curtis Island near Gladstone.
Lundin Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production company, is planning to start production from Edvard Grieg field, in the Central North Sea, in November 2015. Lundin is the operator of the field located in licence PL338, south of the Grane and Balder fields and 180 kilometres west of Stav
CCC (Underwater Engineering) S.A.L has selected Sonardyne’s Ranger 2 acoustic positioning technology for its entire fleet of dynamically positioned (DP) diving and support vessels. Supplied by Sonardyne Asia Pte. in Singapore, the Ranger 2 systems will be used as independent position references for
Golar LNG has signed a contract with West African Gas to charter an FSRU to be used as LNG import terminal in Ghana.
Malaysia’s Petronas has achieved first gas from Kepodang field, one of its largest-operated upstream projects in Indonesia. Located in the Muriah block, the field is situated approximately 180 kilometers northeast of Semarang, Central Java, in water depths of up to 70 meters. It is expected to deliv
Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Energy (SKE), has secured Field Development Plan (FDP) approval from Petronas for the B15 gas field, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia. SapuraKencana will now start the development phase for this project, with the first gas delivery targeted for late 2017. The B15 field, which was
Coretrax, a wellbore clean up and abandonment specialist, has completed a three-year decommissioning contract with operator Hess Corporation for the first designated abandonment campaign of its kind. The project began in 2012, involving 30 well abandonments at the FFFA and IVRR fields in the UK Nort
iSURVEY, a provider of survey and positioning services to the oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecommunications markets, has secured a framework contract with Total E&P UK for the provision of rig move navigation and positioning services. Starting October 12, 2015, the three year framework con
Malaysian property developer Eastern & Oriental (E&O), through its subsidiary Tanjung Pinang Development (TPD), has signed a Letter of Award (LOA) with China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) for a major land reclamation project in Penang. CCCC(M), a wholly-owned Malaysian subsidiary of CCC
