Offshore grouting contractor FoundOcean has secured two contracts on the Solan oil field development west of the Shetland in the North Sea. The contracts, with Heerema Marine Contractors and Bibby Offshore,& cover structural grouting on the 8000-tonne Solan platform jacket and its 300…
Dubai’s Drydocks World is to build two new Gusto MSC CJ54-X135-A-design jackup rigs for Malta Oil & Gas./p> The triangular-shaped hull units (pictured) will be 76 x 76m with 180.6m-long, open-truss legs with rack and pinion type elevating systems and leg-to-hull fixation systems…
Total and its partners are to move ahead with the 650MM bbl, deepwater Kaombo project offshore Angola after cutting US$4 billion from the capex costs on the project. Kaombo will develop six of 12 discoveries made in Block 32, covering 800sq km…
The Platform Services division of global drilling and engineering company KCA Deutag agreed on a multi-million dollar contract with ExxonMobil Canada Properties for work on the Hebron heavy oil development project. The contract for drilling…
Seaway Heavy Lifting has completed the installation of the 3300-tonne transformer topside of the WindMW Meerwind project. The installation took place in 23m water depth in the German Bight on 3 April. Seaway Heavy Lifting performed the lift on DP with its crane vessel Oleg Strashnov…
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG)'s Vlissingen facility has completed the HelWin bèta jacket for client Siemens and the structure has set sail to its offshore location in the German sector of the North Sea. After the EPC (engineering,procurement…
Noble Energy and EMAS have signed a letter of agreement (LOA) for installation work on Noble's Gunflint project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The agreement calls for EMAS’ Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, to perform the offshore installation of pipelines…
Marine geophysical company Polarcus completed a 3000sq km 3D sesmic survey in license area EL 0037 in the Walvis basin offshore Namibia for operator Tullow Oil. A second 2D acquisition phase has now started. It will cover approximately 1000km and will take about two weeks to complete…
Shell and its partners on the Ormen Lange license have postponed plans for a ground-breaking compression project on the giant field, halting ongoing concept select work, citing costs and reservoir data. Ormen Lange, Norway’s second largest field and producing since October 2007…
Statoil and its partners have made a 20-75MM boe gas and oil discovery in the Valemon Nord prospect in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The discovery wells 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A, in production license 050, drilled by the semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Leader…
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) board of directors has elected John T. Rynd as chair of NOIA and Cindy B. Taylor as vice chair of NOIA for the upcoming 2014-2015 term. Rynd and Taylor assumed their positions at the NOIA Annual Meeting…
FloaTEC LLC (FloaTEC), a US-based JV between a subsidiary of McDermott International Inc. and Keppel FELS Ltd., announced that the P-61 tension leg wellhead platform (TLWP) has been successfully installed in the Papa Terra Field, Campos Basin…
A normally unattended self-installing floating tower (SIFT) design has been selected as the development option for the North Sea Fyne development, the operator has revealed. The design has been supplied by GMC Inc., which has a partnership with Enegi Oil…
Wintershall Norge has made a gas and condensate discovery in the Solberg well in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6407/1-7 and the subsequent sidetrack 6407/1-7A, in production license 475, encountered gas and condensate in the main target lower Cretaceous Lange formation…
China Oilfield Services Limited's newly purchased platform supply vessel HYSY613 has been delivered for operation and is expected to start work in the South China Sea mid-April. Another platform supply vessel of the same model that was…