On the occasion of the Thetis International Convention on Marine Renewable Energy in Brest, France on 10 and 11 April, Nass&Wind Offshore announced its intention to respond to the second call for tenders for offshore wind farms, which was recently published. “To do this,” said Olivier Schwebel, CEO
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a four year frame agreement with Petrobras to provide subsea services for its fields offshore Brazil. Under the terms of the agreement, FMC Technologies will provide equipment commissioning and offshore technical services in addition to maintenance
Aziana has announced that they have reached a conditional agreement with the Board of unlisted public company Eternal Resources Limited (ACN 149 833 072) (“Eternal”) to acquire all the shares and options in Eternal by means of an off-market all-scrip takeover. Eternal is an unlisted public company w
Australia’s Tap Oil Limited announces that at 0630 hours (AWST) on 15 April 2013 the Ensco 104 rig commenced drilling the Taunton-5/5H well to appraise the Taunton oil field, located in the TL/2 production license and the TP/7 exploration permit. Taunton-5/5H will be drilled in shallow water as a de
Marubeni Corporation in collaboration with (Korea) SK Shipping Co., Ltd. has concluded long-term charter contracts of LNG carriers for a UK subsidiary of the French Oil Major, Total S.A. With a loading capacity of 180,000 m3, the ships will be the largest LNG carriers which are enabled to pass the P
United LNG and Freeport-McMoRan Energy (FME), a subsidiary of McMoRan Exploration, are engaged in efforts to utilize McMoRan’s Main Pass Energy Hub™ (MPEH) as a potential Deepwater Port facility to receive, store, condition, and liquefy domestic natural gas for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Statens vegvesen is seeking for a contractor to conduct underwater inspection services in Norway. The work consists of diving inspection on a total of 53 quays in the county and 49 selected bridges. The report shall be prepared for each quay and bridge with a proposal to repair any damage. The start
50Hertz Offshore GmbH has invited tenders for the provision of underwater ordnance identification services offshore Germany. The project includes extensive tracking to identify anomalies in the ferromagnetic area of the planned subsea cable routes from landfall in Lubmin the priority area for wind e
Leading Norwegian exploration seismic contractor Dolphin Geophysical of Bergen has awarded VERIPOS a new three-year contract for provision of satellite positioning services aboard its fleet of specialist high-capacity vessels, Artemis Arctic, Artemis Atlantic, Polar Duke and Polar Duchess; the servi
Ezra Holdings Limited (“Ezra”, the “Group”), a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, announced four contracts totaling close to US$120 million. The contracts will be carried out in the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and the P
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Black & Veatch to jointly pursue barge-based natural gas liquefaction facility projects on an exclusive basis. Under the agreement, Wison will hold responsibility
QGC Pty Limited has awarded a contract worth up to A$800 million to Veolia Water Australia Pty Ltd to operate and maintain QGC’s three water treatment plants in the Surat Basin. Under the 20-year contract Veolia will operate and maintain the plants, which will treat groundwater produced alongside na
Petrofac announces that Petrofac Emirates, its Joint Venture with Mubadala Petroleum, has been awarded a contract by Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) for the Upper Zakum, UZ750 field development in Abu Dhabi. The contract is worth approximately US$3.7 billion and has been secured by Petrofac Emirat
As DEME is moving forward with the construction of two Belgian wind farms, GeoSea has secured two new contracts: Westermost Rough in the UK and Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany. A new contract secured in the United Kingdom (UK) concerns a job for the Danish company DONG Energy, the largest operator of
