Dredging operations are beginning today at the Murray Mouth in order to maintain connectivity between the river and the Southern Ocean. A dredging contractor has been engaged to undertake the work and during the past two weeks has been mobilizing in preparation for dredging. Department of Environmen
Ezra Holdings Limited’s Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, has secured a subsea construction contract with Apache Energy in Australia valued in excess of A$130 million (US$105 million). The awarded scope of work includes project management, engineering, transportation and subsea installation of an
Petrobras has announced the results of drilling well 9-SES-188D (Petrobras nomenclature) / 9-BRSA-1280D-SES (ANP nomenclature), located at concession area BM-SEAL-11, in block SEAL-M-426, in Sergipe Basin ultra-deep waters, off Brazil. The results confirm the light oil and gas discovery in Farfan ar
Deep Down, an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services, has received an order for flying leads and ancillary equipment directly from one of the supermajor operators. The flying leads will be delivered and depl
Trapoil has announced that a contract has been signed for a jack-up rig for the drilling of a well to test the Niobe prospect, in the North Sea. The Niobe prospect, formerly named Kratos, is located in the Licence P.1889, Blocks 12/26b and 12/27, within the Moray Firth. Suncor Energy UK is the opera
Huisman Equipment has informed that the company installed the 570mt pipelay system onboard Ceona’s flagship asset Ceona Amazon. The system was installed at the Huisman Schiedam quayside in The Netherlands. Ceona Amazon is a pipelay and heavy subsea construction vessel. It arrived at Huisman’s yard i
Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has informed that the restricted output from the Huntington field, located in the UK North Sea, continues. Noreco says that currently, no further clarification has been received about when normal operations at the CATS riser platform, which indirectly restricts Hunt
McDermott International, Inc. has announced that one of its joint venture companies, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd. (QMW), recently completed a fast-track compression process module fabrication subcontract for Jord Oil & Gas Systems B.V. (JOGS). JOGS is the prime contractor
SmartBay Ireland has entered into a trans-Atlantic collaboration agreement with the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Dublin City University and the Marine Institute Ireland. The Memorandum of Understanding was sig
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of emergency preparedness and radio and telecommunications systems at Brage field, in the North Sea. Wintershall Norge AS (Wintershall) is the operator on the Brage field, which is an oil field in the northern North Sea, approx. 13 kilome
Maersk Oil has postponed a decision on whether to drill for oil off the coast of Greenland. In an e-mail sent to Offshore Energy Today, Maersk Oil’s chief growth officer, Ebbie Haan, said: “As operator of the Baffin Bay, Block 9 exploration licence, Maersk Oil (and its partner Tullow Oil) agreed wit
Amarinth, a company specialising in the design, application and manufacture of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment, has been appointed by Expro to deliver $1M of API 610 OH1 pumps for the Subsea Well Response Project. In light of recent serious oil spill incidents such as Macondo, in the Gulf
Bibby Offshore’s Houston-based division, Bibby Subsea, has signed a three year contract with Bordelon Marine to charter a new vessel. The Brandon Bordelon is an ultra-light intervention vessel (ULIV) and will start a three year charter in August 2015 primarily operating in the Gulf of Mexico. The ad
Songa Offshore has informed that the previously suspended semi-submersible rig Songa Trym is expected to continue drilling operations for Statoil within the next week. Songa Trym was suspended on November 20, 2014 as it was ahead of the drilling schedule, and the rig has been on a 75% suspension rat
