Bluestream Offshore B.V. has recently been awarded a maintenance contract from Rijkswaterstaat Dienst Noordzee through tender process. The contract is for the provision and maintenance of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), including control cabin,launch and recovery system (LARS) and an Ultra-short
Australian Environment Minister Mark Butler has decided to delay making a decision on an application to dump 3 million cubic metres of dredge spoil in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, 50kms from the Whitsunday Islands. The Minister’s decision has come just hours after his Government released a
ACD has been engaged by DSME to engineer and supply two high pressure LNG fuel gas pump systems for new 173,400 cbm ME-GI LNG carriers for TEEKAY Shipping Ltd, with options to order up to three additional systems. The vessel will be Det Norske Veritas (DNV) classified and meet or exceed environmenta
Global supplier of fluid transfer systems, FES International, has secured a contract to supply two Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) units for the Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 development located about 95 miles off the Angolan shore, West Africa. The £277,000 order from Oceaneering Internation
Audubon announced that Audubon Engineering had been named to create the front-end engineering and design for Noble Energy’s new $45 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, Colorado’s first dedicated LNG plant. According to Audubon Business Development Executive Vice President West Hickham,“Our
IHC Merwede’s Offshore division has been successful in securing orders worth over €1 billion for the design, engineering and construction of a total of six pipelaying vessels. The agreements for these six ships have been signed with Subsea 7 and Seabras Sapura, the partnership between SapuraKencana
Petrobras has extended the contract for Skandi Vitória with two years from September 2013. The extension of the charter contract is done in line with the current market. The vessel is owned through a joint venture formed by DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF ASA together with Technip. Skandi Vitória is
Cal Dive International, Inc. reported a second quarter 2013 loss of $1.7 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, on revenues of $121.0 million. Included in the loss is a $4.0 million after-tax gain related to the final marked-to-market adjustment of the derivative liability on the Company’s convertible
Air Products, the global leader in liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology and equipment, said it has signed an agreement to supply its proprietary liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and equipment to Technip for a mid-scale LNG project in the Yangling Demonstration Area, ShaanXi Province,
Cairn announces that it has entered into a farm in agreement with Chariot Oil & Gas Investments (Mauritania) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chariot Oil & Gas Limited (Chariot) for a 35% non-operated interest in an exploration block offshore Mauritania in West Africa. The block (C19), which is
Incat Crowther has been contracted to design a trio of 42.5m Monohull Dive Support Vessels. The design is an innovative new concept borne of the latest ideas from designer, builder and operator. The design has been developed from stem to stern to be a dedicated DP-2 capable Dive Support Vessel, feat
The exact date of the start of dredging works at Lexington Harbor remains unknown, official states, however, the Sanilac County News reports that the water at the harbor is still deep enough for boats to enter. Meanwhile, Busch Marine of Bay City was dredging out the Port Sanilac Harbor entrance las
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District recently awarded a 50-month contract to B&K Construction Co. for increased drainage along Jefferson Ave. in Orleans Parish. The contract, which is part of the Southeast Louisiana Project (SELA), will reduce the risk of damages from a 10-year rai
EMAS AMC, the Subsea Services division of Ezra Holdings Limited, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, announced that it has been awarded a major contract by Houston based VAALCO Gabon (Etame) Inc. for the expansion of t
