Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services was notified by Total in Angola of the termination of a USD 250 million, two-year contract for the Skandi Aker vessel. Skandi Aker started operations as a well-intervention vessel for the first time in September last year when the contract with Total
The Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and Washington Department of Ecology will co-host a community meeting next week (June 30, Seattle City Hall) to provide information and answer questions about proposed updates to the city’s shoreline master program (SMP). The state’s Shoreline
Today in Vienna, as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Austria, Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee and Gerhard Roiss, Chief Executive Officer of OMV, signed a Shareholders’ Agreement for South Stream Austria GmbH. The Agreement envisages parties’ cooperation t
Vissim, the Norwegian integrated marine and offshore operations supplier, has signed a frame agreement with Ross Offshore Well Management Services to supply a remote offshore surveillance solution and monitoring services. The 24/7 traffic surveillance of offshore installations will be performed in a
Olympic Ship AS has entered into a three-year charter agreement with Bibby Offshore Limited for the vessel Olympic Ares, a multi-functional subsea support & construction vessel. The charter extends the current charter in place, now ending in late 2017. The charterer has combined options for an addit
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Ferry Division will once again be testing the waters of its original “short route” in Hatteras Inlet this week, after an Army Corps of Engineers dredge departed the area Monday. The M/V Merritt, an Army Corps of Engineers side caster dredge, ha
GE Oil & Gas announced it has received an order for the 20,000-psi (20-ksi) rated deepwater blowout preventer (BOP) stack and riser systems from Copenhagen, Denmark-based Maersk Drilling. The equipment, due to enter service in the first half of 2018, is being supplied for Maersk and BP as part of th
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for the well 7220/11-1, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. Well 7220/11-1 will be drilled from the semi-submersible drilling rig Island Innovator at position 72o 03` 26.84″ north and 20o 32´ 45.71″ east. The drillin
Reach Subsea has signed a three-year time charter agreement with Østensjø Rederi for the ROV/subsea vessel “Edda Fonn”. Expected commencement of the contract is December 2014. “Edda Fonn is a vessel we are very familiar with and which is very suitable for the services we offer to the market. This fl
UK oil and gas engineering firm, FES International, has secured a $2.5M (£1.5M) contract to supply one of its latest products, the automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) to NOV Flexibles. NOV Flexibles has called on the subsea technology services of FES International as part of Subsea 7
UK oil and gas engineering firm, FES International, has secured a $2.5M (£1.5M) contract to supply one of its latest products, the automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) to NOV Flexibles. NOV Flexibles has called on the subsea technology services of FES International as part of Subsea 7
Dredging work at the Yuzhny port is nearing completion, and cargo owners are already analyzing its benefits. Enhancing the capabilities for working with capesize vessels will significantly increase the flows of export, import, and transit cargoes. Access to capesize vessels (over 200,000 deadweight
Rosneft and ExxonMobil, within the framework of the Sakhalin-1 Consortium, have finished transport operation on transportation and installation of a unique sea drilling platform Berkut, which has the biggest upper part in the world, at Arkutun-Dagi on North East shelf of Sakhalin Island. The adjustm
Dynagas LNG Partners said that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of the ownership interests in the entity that owns and operates the 2013 built ice class LNG carrier Arctic Aurora from Dynagas Holding Ltd., Dynagas Partners’ sponsor, for a purchase price of $235.0 million. On Jun
