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Fugro rebrands geotechnical companies

Oct 02, 2015

Fugro has integrated and rebranded its geotechnical companies under the name Fugro GeoServices Ltd. The renaming completes the integration of Fugro Seacore, Fugro Engineering Services, EM Drilling, Fugro Loadtest, Fugro Instrumentation & Monitoring and Fugro Aperio…

Technip bags Eni Angola contract

Oct 01, 2015

Technip Umbilicals Ltd. and Angoflex Ltda., Technip subsidiaries, have been awarded a contract by Eni to supply umbilicals to the Block 15/06 East Hub Development offshore Angola. This field is located approximately 350km north of Luanda…

Aker awards Murphy Rotan contract

Oct 01, 2015

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. to deliver the subsea production system for the Rotan deepwater natural gas development offshore Malaysia. The delivery includes hardware for four subsea wells…

2H bags Chevron production riser work

Oct 01, 2015

2H Offshore has been awarded a contract by Chevron to manage a production riser weld qualification testing program.  Image from Chevron. The aim of the development of 20,000 psi…

Searcher completes Barents Sea seismic

Sep 30, 2015

Image: silver-eye/Searcher Seismic Searcher Seismic announced that the acquisition of the Silver-Eye 3D seismic survey in the Hammerfest Basin, Norwegian Barents Sea is now complete. The…

Amec Foster Wheeler expands UAE operations

Sep 30, 2015

Image: Garry Dryburgh, Amec Foster Wheeler’s president for the Middle East and Africa with engineering manager Bindu Satheesh at the opening of the company’s new office in Abu Dhabi/Amec Foster Wheeler Amec…

Oceaneering wins vessel contract off India

Sep 30, 2015

Oceaneering International announced that its subsidiary Oceaneering International GmbH has entered into a two-year, subsea field support vessel services agreement with an oil and gas company in India for use of the Island Pride. Anticipated…

Shell to explore Black Sea

Sep 29, 2015

The Bulgarian Ministry of Energy awarded Shell E&P a permit for deepwater exploration of oil and natural gas in Blocks 1-14 Silistar in the Black Sea, according to Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova. Image from Shell…

Rex to rescue Lime

Sep 29, 2015

Rex International (RII) entered into a subscription agreement with Lime Petroleum Norway (LPN) for about US$11.72 million (NOK 100 million) as capital injection for Lime’s drilling program obligations. Image from Rex…

GMS newbuild gets first contract

Sep 29, 2015

Gulf Marine Services' GMS Scirocco newbuild has been completed ahead of schedule and under budget and has been awarded its first contract.  The vessel will commence a four-month contract (three months firm with a one-month option) in October for an engineering…

DOF Subsea awarded subsea, IMR contracts

Sep 28, 2015

Image from DOF Subsea. DOF Subsea has been awarded several major contracts with a total value in excess US$351 million (NOK 3 billion), including options, securing both short-term and long-term utilization of assets and personnel…

J2 Subsea, WeSubsea renew distribution partnership

Sep 28, 2015

J2 Subsea has renewed its global sales and rental distribution partnership with WeSubsea. The partnership provides customers around the world with technical support from J2 Subsea, and global access to the WeSubsea range of baskets…

NOCK requests EOI for MC 3D survey

Sep 25, 2015

The National Oil Corp. of Kenya (NOCK) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from eligible companies to acquire a multi-client 3D broadband seismic survey including processing over the shallow waters of the offshore Lamu basin, Kenya…

FMC wins Appomattox work

Sep 24, 2015

FMC Technologies has received an award from Shell Offshore, Inc. (Shell) for its Appomattox deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico. FMC Technologies will provide enhanced vertical deepwater trees, subsea manifolds, topside controls…

CGG completes survey offshore Indonesia

Sep 24, 2015

All four phases of CGG’s BandaSeis 2D BroadSeis multi-client program targeting the Banda Arc around East Indonesia and Timor Leste have now been fully processed and are ready for delivery. BandaSeis data coverage…

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