DCD Marine Cape Town, an oil and gas upstream service provider in South Africa, is ‘on a roll’ with a number of projects already underway this year for the oil and gas sector. With the start of three large projects towards the latter part of 2013, intense planning and execution has seen the company’
Able UK has been awarded a contract for the disposal of four offshore structures from the Shell operated Brent field in the North Sea. The contract will see three platform topsides, as well as a 138m high steel platform jacket, transported from the Brent field over 100 miles north east of Scotland t
Matrix Offshore Services & Engineering (MOSE), a division of the wider Matrix Composites & Engineering (Matrix) Group, entered into an agency agreement with Oil States Industries Inc. for the exclusive distribution of subsea pipeline products in Australia, NZ and PNG. The new agreement broadens MOSE
CAMAC Energy Inc. has signed a long-term contract for the floating, production, storage, and offloading vessel (“FPSO”) Armada Perdana. The contract provides for an initial term of five years beginning January 1, 2014, with an automatic extension for an additional two years unless terminated by CAMA
Bibby Offshore Singapore (BOS) has successfully completed a call out contract with PTT Exploration & Production Co Ltd (PTTEP). The project involved a short notice mobilisation, and saw the BOS-operated DP2 ROV Support Vessel, the Bibby Spring perform subsea inspection services to PTTEP’s Bongkot Fi
Totem Ocean Trailer Express said that Wärtsilä will supply main engines, generators and integrated LNG storage and fuel gas handling systems (LNGPac™) for the largest LNG conversions ever undertaken in North America. In making this decision John Parrott, President of Totem Ocean, cited Wärtsilä’s pr
Dana Petroleum has informed that the Fregate-1 exploration well being drilled in Block 7, offshore Mauritania, is being plugged and abandoned at a depth of 5,426m MD BRT. The well discovered gas-condensate and oil pay in multiple thin, but good quality sands within the Lower Cormoran (Santonian) and
Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas company, announced that it has signed an agreement for the North El Arish (Block 6) Concession Area, offshore the eastern Nile Delta. The 2,980 sq. km block was awarded in April 2013 as part of a competitive bidding process. Thi
Subsea technology firm, Ecosse Subsea Systems Ltd (ESS), has been awarded a £5 million contract to design, build and operate a cable-lay system for a European utilities provider. The Scottish-based company will support the Array Cable Lay and pull-in component of a wind farm project located off the
Providence Resources has been granted areal extent on Barryroe field in Standard Exploration Licence (SEL) 1/11, offshore Ireland. SEL 1/11 contains the Barryroe oil field which is operated by Providence Resources (80%) on behalf of its partner Lansdowne Oil & Gas (20%). The area lies in c. 100 metr
Foster Wheeler said that a subsidiary of its global engineering and construction group has been awarded a contract by Statoil to perform a study for the Snøhvit Improvement Project 2 at Melkøya, 450 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. The contract value was not disclosed. Foster Wheeler
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) plan to sign a contract for SEA-ME-WE-5 submarine cable system. As The Daily Star reports, SEA-ME-WE-5 will connect 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific and Europe. The landing of a cable in Kuakata in Pa
Pancontinental Oil & Gas and its wholly owned subsidiary Afrex Limited together with partner FAR has received approval from the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum for the farm-out of the onshore portion of Kenyan exploration area Block L6 in the Lamu Basin. Block L6 is partly onshore and partly
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has received an order from Kawasaki Heavy Industries to supply the control system for an LNG carrier that is being built for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia. The ship will be the world’s largest Moss-type LNG carrier and will be used for transport
