LUSCHI, a service provider and product representative that operates in the Engineering, Sanitation and Environment areas, has become the fastest-growing dredging company in Brazil. The year 2014 is proving to be a very successful one for the company with more than five hundred thousand cubic meters
Norway based provider of marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) data, Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has has confirmed a contract award worth $7.0 million with PTTEP International. This announcement follows the stock exchange notice of the letter of intent for 3D EM data acquisition
Polarcus has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic acquisition project offshore Brazil. The program, subject to the execution of contract, is projected to start in Q2 2015 upon receipt of the required environmental permit, and is expected to run for appro
Wintershall has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to carry out exploration drilling of well 6406/2-8 in the Norwegian Sea. Wintershall Norge AS is the operator for production licence 589 in block 6406/2 in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6406/2-8 is to be drilled
Gassco has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to remove and dispose of the B-11 platform located on the German Continental Shelf. B-11 was part of the Norpipe pipeline from the Ekofisk field to Emden in Germany, until the pipeline was diverted around the platform in th
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 24 – November 30). Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) for installation work in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract value is in the range of $50 […]
African Petroleum Corporation has entered into an agreement with The Government of the Republic of The Gambia to reinstate the company’s Alhamdulilah Licence Block A1 and Licence Block A4 (the “Gambia Licences”), and settle all prior issues concerning the Gambia Licences including the discontinuatio
After the exceptional rainfall and storms of last winter, the Environment Agency has completed a record number of repairs to flood and coastal defenses across Devon and Cornwall and is urging communities to make sure they are ready if flooding happens this year. As well as repairing flood defenses,
Technip has won a contract with Statoil ASA for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) Marine Operations Pipelay and Subsea Installation project. The project is an option to the Snøhvit CO2 Solution project awarded in 2013. The GRD project scope consists of a subsea tie-back to a new Wye piece on an existi
Gippsland Ports, designated waterway manager of 1,431 sq km of some of the largest and most beautiful waterways in Australia, is seeking offers for the supply of a suitable Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD). The supply (new/existing) is for service (time charter), or lease (bareboat charter) ar
Searcher Seismic in cooperation with BGP, announces a major multi-client seismic campaign in the Offshore Canning Basin, consisting of ~16,000 km of newly acquired 2D data and ~10,000 km of reprocessing. The Bilby Non-Exclusive 2D seismic survey comprises of approximately 16,000 km of 2D long-offset
As operator for Dansk Undergrunds Consortium (DUC), Maersk Oil has drilled the exploration well Siah NE-1X (5505/7-17) in the western part of the Danish North Sea. The well is dry. Siah NE-1X was drilled as a vertical well. The primary target was deep water deposits in the Upper Jurassic. No produci
Norwegian seismic player, Dolphin, has been awarded a 3D seismic contract in West Africa for an undisclosed client. The award follows recently announced two major 3D seismic projects in India. Dolphin plans to utilise one of its high-capacity 3D seismic vessels. The survey is scheduled of approximat
Plexus Holdings has received a purchase order (‘PO’) from Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (‘Det Norske’) to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for Geopilot#2, an oil and gas appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen development project, offshore Norway. Geopilot#2 will be the seventh Det Norsk
