Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a contract valued at approximately $465 million for the engineering, procurement,construction and installation of sealines for a major shallow water development offshore West Africa. Detailed engineering will commence immediately, with offshore installation
The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation have signed an inter-ministerial agreement on collaboration … (theleader) [mappress] Source: theleader, September 28, 2011;
Ofgem E-Serve has confirmed that TC Barrow OFTO Limited (Transmission Capital Partners) has secured a licence to operate the high voltage link to the 90 MW Barrow offshore wind farm, near Barrow-in-Furness. TC Barrow OFTO Limited has taken over ownership of the £33.6m link from Dong Energy and Centr
Iran’s talk on gas export to Oman and India reached hopeful results, the caretaker of the National Iranian gas Export Company (NIGEC), Hossein Bidarmaghz said. He went on to say that, an Indian delegation will travel to Iran to continue negotiations on construction of a gas pipeline that would carry
Wave energy company Aquamarine Power took another major step towards the commercialisation of its Oyster technology with the announcement today [27 September 2011] of £7 million of new funding and a commitment of further investment in the company from its existing shareholders over the next two year
Leading offshore rope manufacturer, Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division has been awarded a contract by Eni Norge AS to supply the polyester rope mooring lines for the Goliat FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading). The Goliat FPSO will be positioned 85 km offshore, north west of Hammerfest i
SPT Offshore installed 9 Suction piles for Bibby Offshore for Ithaca Athena FPSO mooring. For Bibby Offshore, SPT installed nine (9) suction piles of OD 5.5-6.5m x 10-11m deep. The suction piles will be used to moor the Ithaca Athena FPSO in 140m water depth. SPT’s strong SAPS-004 suction pump was u
Leading international oilfield services company Expro, has secured a contract worth in excess of $6 million (£3.7 million) with Hess Australia for an appraisal drilling campaign off the North West Shelf of Western Australia. The contract is due to commence in quarter four 2011 and the Jack Bates sem
A Turkish ship began exploring for gas off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, the Turkish Cypriot government said, an announcement that escalates…
After an urgent call from one of the customers, FN Diving Rotterdam organized a team to attend the vessel the next day in the Dominican Republic. On arrival the FN Diving team was ready to start immediately with the inspection and repairs after some local preparations. After consulting their propell
Neptune Marine Services Limited announces it has entered into an agreement to sell the Company’s Australian fabrication division to privately owned engineering group Kempe Engineering. Kempe Engineering will purchase the business for approximately $0.4 million while Neptune will retain the existing
MCS Kenny, Wood Group Kenny’s riser engineering and software solutions company, has launched Version 8 of its industry-leading Flexcom™ riser design and analysis software. This new release will make it easier for engineering teams to model the characteristics of all types of oil & gas riser systems,
Aker Solutions has been selected to supply a subsea umbilical to Det norske oljeselskap ASA’s Jette field. The order is worth approximately NOK 60 million. Det norske’s initial order is for six kilometres of static electro-hydraulic stainless steel umbilical. The umbilical will include electrical an
CGGVeritas announced today that it completed acquisition of a 3D survey with BroadSeisTM, its unique broadband marine solution, for Chevron Norge AS. The minimum commitment for the program comprised acquisition of a 3D survey over a 2,190 km2 area west of Bodø in the Norwegian Sea. Due to good progr
