TerraSond has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide hydrographic surveying services anywhere in the U.S under a new five-year contract, the company announced yesterday. Under the new contract beginning in 2015, TerraSond will provide comprehensive, mo
PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk. (EMP) reported that its 60.49% owned and operated Malacca Strait PSC block, just started its first commercial gas volume of 8.5 million cubic feet per day to the BOB PT Bumi Siak Pusako – PT Pertamina Hulu Energi (“BOB”). The gas output is produced from the block’s Kuat g
RWE-DEA Norge AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 35/9-X S Atlas in Titan production licence 420 in the North Sea using the Leiv Eiriksson mobile drilling rig. Water depth at the site is around 358 metres and it is around 81 kilometres south-west of Florø. Drilling is p
Deep Down, Inc., an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services announced that it has been awarded a contract offshore West Africa. The contract is for the supply of vessel-based equipment and personnel at an umb
SBI Offshore Limited has announced today that it expects to complete a major Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (“EPCC”) project for a Malaysian client worth approximately US$30 million on 23 July 2014 for final delivery at the end of the month. The SGX Catalist-listed O&M play
Total E&P Norge AS has received consent to conduct manned underwater operations on the Martin Linge Project. The Martin Linge field is close to the boundary with the UK sector, around 42 kilometres west of Oseberg. Water depth at the site is 100-120 metres. Scheduled start-up is 10 August 2014. The
The UK Government has announced it would contribute short term funding of $26 million (£15 million) over five years to help kickstart the establishment of a new arm’s length regulatory body in the official response to Sir Ian Wood’s review into improving efficiencies in the UK’s offshore oil and gas
Lundin Norway AS has received consent to use the Bredford Dolphin mobile drilling rig to drill and perform production testing of exploration well 33/12-10 S in production licence 631, Vollgrav, offshore Norway. The activities are planned to start in July/August 2014 and estimated to last 55 days. Br
BC Ferries has awarded Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. of Gdansk, Poland contracts totalling $165 million to build three new ‘Intermediate Class’ ferries. Lloyd’s Register (LR) will class the ferries. Mark Wilson, BC Ferries’ Vice President of Engineering, said: “BC Ferries is very pleased to have LR as
OMV Petrom has announced the success of an exploration well drilled in Istria XVIII offshore Perimeter (shallow water). The Marina 1 well encountered a new oil reservoir on the continental shelf of the Black Sea. “The Black Sea is an important area for OMV Petrom, an area which continues to have pot
UTEC operated vessel “Yardie Creek” is nearing completion of major AUV pipeline survey campaign off the NW coast of Australia. The vessel is equipped with subsea positioning and 2 x 1000 metre rated AUVs fitted with multibeam, side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and magnetometer. The spread will be
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has reported that the petroleum drilling and exploration operation of Zhongjiannan Project was completed smoothly and on schedule on July 15th with the oil & gas shows found. In accordance with the work procedures of deep-sea petroleum exploration and deve
Kvaerner has presented results for the second quarter in line with what the company has predicted. In addition, the order book has increased with new contracts and growth in existing projects. Operating revenues for the second quarter were $460 million (NOK 2 861 million), while they were $527 (NOK
A supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Grays Harbor Navigation Improvement Project (GHNIP) will be available for review and comment until August 11th, 2014. Since 2007, the Corps has been investigating the feasibility of deepening the channel to its
