Acta Marine B.V. and Liander recently concluded a long-term contract for the maintenance of all active cable & pipelines on the Dutch Wadden Sea. Acta Marine’s specialized cable & pipeline vessel the Coastal Digger will be dedicated on the Dutch Wadden Sea for the remedial lowering of such Cables an
Leading international oilfield services company Expro is celebrating a significant contract extension with Perenco in Cameroon. The award is an extension of services from a previous well campaign and will last for the duration of one year. Expro will provide an extended well test, data acquisition s
Statoil has awarded the concept and FEED Engineering Contract of the SURF package on Peregrino II in Brazil to IKM Ocean Design. The project starts immediately and will run up to the Summer 2013. Man Dir. in IKM Ocean Design, Peder Hoås, says in a press release that this is a very strategic project
Technip was awarded by Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd an EPIC subsea contract for the Greater Stella Area (GSA) development, located 280 kilometers East-Southeast of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of approximately 90 meters. Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd is developing the GSA, centred on the Stella and Harrie
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has completed the Tiga Papan 5 well located in Blocks SB307 & SB308, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The Tiga Papan-5 well targeted an un-appraised fault block of mid-Miocene aged sands of the Tiga Papan Unit that was successfully tested in 1982 by the Tiga Papan 1 w
FuelCell Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, announced a $3.8 million contract award from the U.S. Navy to develop and test a Hybrid Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC)-Battery power system for large displacement undersea vehicle propulsion. T
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the independent Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, announces that drilling operations have commenced on the Nimrod prospect. This is the second well in Chariot’s 4 to 5 well drilling programme offshore Namibia. The operator has confirmed that the drilling camp
Searcher Seismic has announced the completion of acquisition of the Duvalia 2D Seismic Survey in Carnarvon Basin offshore Australia. The Duvalia Survey comprises approximately 3,302km of new, long-offset 2D seismic data. The survey provides coverage over 2012 Federal Acreage Releas blocks W12-10 and
Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry said it has signed on Monday a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with US Cambridge Energy Group for cooperation and development in the field of both construction and logistics of LNG carriers. “This is another new challenge to Mingde in high-end ships after PCTC, Stainles
Fairfield Energy confirms that an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) survey carried out following repairs to the company operated Osprey subsea manifold has identified the need for further repairs before operations at Osprey can resume. As it will take some time to source the equipment required to comp
Afren plc announces that development drilling has commenced on the Okoro East field, following the discovery in January 2012. In addition, a side-track of the existing Okoro-5 well has encountered additional oil volumes in a previously un-swept area of the reservoir within the Okoro main field, offs
Kreuz Holdings Limited, a subsea service provider for the oil and gas industry, announced that it has won a contract worth approximately US$13 million from a leading offshore company in the oil and gas business to provide subsea installation services in Southeast Asia. The work is scheduled to comme
According to CBCNews, the federal government has on Tuesday sent out a tender for survey work of a warship wreck off Sambro Island, near Halifax. Namely, the First World War ship, S.S. City of Vienna, is considered to be a threat because there is up to 10,000 munitions in the site where it sank almo
Rialto announces that the Gazelle-P4 development well was spudded on 25 July 2012 using the Transocean GSF Monitor drilling rig. Gazelle-P4 is testing the oil potential of the UC-2 and UC-4 oil reservoirs as well as the gas potential of the UC-3, UC-5, LC-1 and LC-2 gas reservoirs discovered by the
