A new fast ropax ferry ordered by the Estonia-based Tallink Grupp for its Tallinn – Helsinki route, will feature Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines running primarily on liquefied natural gas. The ship is to be built at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland and is scheduled to be in operation from the beginnin
A new fast ropax ferry ordered by the Estonia-based Tallink Grupp for its Tallinn – Helsinki route, will feature Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines running primarily on liquefied natural gas. The ship is to be built at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland and is scheduled to be in operation from the beginnin
UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG) has yesterday completed the acquisitions of interests in offshore licence P1916 (offshore Isle of Wight) and onshore licence PEDL 126 (containing the Markwells Wood oil discovery). The licence interests acquired by UKOG comprise: A 7.5% interest in P1916 from Egdon (E
Sterling Resources Ltd. has announced that the second oil production well (P2) in Cladhan field, in the UK North Sea, is currently being completed with the drilling rig expected to demobilize within the next two weeks. According to Sterling, the well encountered a reservoir section which was thinner
Australian independent oil company MEO Australia will ask for a revision of its work obligations under its WA-454-P licence, offshore Australia. According to the company’s statement, MEO will seek to extend by 6 months Permit Year 4 (currently ending 8th June 2015) to provide further time to underta
ConocoPhillips has decided to cancel the development project for the Tommeliten Alpha discovery, offshore Norway. According to Aftenbladet, a Stavanger-based paper, the company has decided to shelf the $2 billion development in the Norwegian North Sea due to the low oil prices. The newspaper says it
MacArtney Underwater Technology and Sea-Bird Scientific have joined forces to deliver four oceanographic instrumentation solutions to research vessel operators in Turkey. According to MacArtney, Turkish research clients procured a combination of MacArtney CORMAC Q winches and Sea-Bird Scientific CTD
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation have signed a 15-year contract for exploration for cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts within the Magellan Mountains in the Pacific Ocean. The contract was signed on 10 March 2015,
Huawei Marine has secured a contract from the government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to build the Ceiba-2 Submarine Cable System expected to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2015. The 290 km system will feature a design capacity of 8 Tbps and link the capital of Malabo to Bata,
Reach Subsea has entered into a contract with an undisclosed international client for the vessel Edda Fonn. The vessel will conduct operations in the Mediterranean, the company informed. The operations will start on April 1, and the period is firm for 120 days, plus 60 days options. “We are satisfie
Residents will get another opportunity to see beaches from Holland-on-Sea to Clacton spectacularly recharged with sand. The Sospan Dau vessel was back on site yesterday (Monday March 9) as phase two of the £36 million coastal protection scheme gathers momentum. The sand is literally being blown asho
Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) is building one of the largest oil refining plants in the world. The refinery will be constructed on land reclaimed by Van Oord in ‘sabkha area’, a salt plain near the coast some 30 kilometers north of the Saudi border. The project involves dredging and recla
French oil company Total could give it another shot with searching for gas offshore Cyprus, the Mediterranean country’s energy ministry has said. To remind, it was reported in January this year that Total would not proceed with exploration in its 10 & 11 offshore blocks southwest of Cyprus, as it wa
BOA IMR AS, a BOA Offshore AS subsidiary, has entered with certain conditions, into a shipbuilding contract for a light construction / IMR vessel with NorYards Fosen AS, with delivery scheduled for spring 2017 from its yard in Fosen, Norway. The vessel with main dimensions of 108 x 24 meters is desi
