As the manager of the shipping department at China Oilfield Services Ltd, Cai Dian, stated, the company plans to make its ocean engineering fleet larger by adding 50 vessels. ChinaDaily reports that COSL is now ready to venture into offshore oil development since China’s first deep-water drilling ri
Maritime New Zealand announces that the good progress was made on Rena this week, despite salvage operations being suspended for two days due to high winds and swells. The project remains on schedule. The total combined weight of steel removed is now approximately 430 tonnes, which is more than 20 p
MMT has recently completed a geophysical cable route survey for the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm (OWF) project for Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. The geophysical survey was performed by MMT for the entire inner array grid cable route. The geophysical survey included bathymetric and side-scan s
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces an Athena field operational and production update. The planned hydraulic intervention to eliminate the production tubing blockage in the P1 well, using a Remotely Operated Vehicle Support Vessel, has been performed. This intervention, involving the pumping of fluids into
Matt Lang has joined Hydroid, Inc., a Pocasset-based manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), as a senior proposal associate. Prior to joining Hydroid, Lang was a proposal coordinator for CG Power Solutions in Albany, New York. In his new role, Lang will be responsible for proposal dev
On September 6, 2012, Petrobras began oil production in the ultra-deep waters of the Chinook oil field from the floating production, storage and offloading platform, FPSO BW Pioneer, moored some 250 kilometers off the coast of the State of Louisiana in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It is the first FPSO t
Carlos Morales-Gil, Director-general Exploration & Production of the Mexican oil company Pemex will participate in the Offshore Energy Conference 2012 in Amsterdam. He will present the latest developments in upstream oil and gas in Mexico and Pemex’s strategy for the future. The Offshore Energy Conf
The public is invited to help identify objects they see in images of the seafloor through a new interactive website called “Seafloor Explorer.” The result of a unique collaboration between oceanographers studying seafloor habitats, Web programmers and social scientists, Seafloor Explorer launches to
Oil & Gas UK and Decom North Sea, co-organisers of the Offshore Decommissioning Conference, have confirmed that this year’s keynote speaker will be Gerry Borghesi, UK/Netherlands Production Manager for ExxonMobil International. Only a few places now remain for the two-day event ,sponsored by Ernst &
BP announced today that it has agreed to sell its 18.36 per cent non-operated interest in the Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea to AS Norske Shell for $240 million in cash. The agreement is a further example of BP’s active management of its portfolio in the North Sea, focusing investment on high va
Working under a joint venture for NSW, Osiris Marine Services & Nordic Offshore Marine mobilised the DP1 barge the Atlantis with a full survey/diving/cable repair complimented by subcontractor Reef Subsea Dredging & Excavation’s twin R2000 shallow water controlled flow excavation tool. The East West
Star Information Systems (SIS) announced that it has signed an agreement with StormGeo that will see both companies work together to develop a range of innovative software solutions for the offshore and shipping industries. At the same time StormGeo has taken a 15 percent stake in SIS – with an opti
Engineering and project services company Clough Limited today announced the award of a contract valued at approximately US$60M with Pearl Oil (Amata) Limited, a Mubadala Petroleum affiliate. The contract work will be executed in consortium with TL Offshore SDN Berhad, an installation and transportat
The Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson AM MP, has announced the grant of seven new offshore petroleum exploration permits as part of round two of the 2011 Exploration Acreage Release. The award of these permits will see an estimated $277 million in new investment in offshore areas of
