Norway-based geoscience firm PGS has laid claim to the industry's largest seismic spread, offshore Myanmar. The firm says its vessel, the Ramform Titan, working in the Bay of Bengal, is towing the industry’s first ever single vessel 18 streamer seismic operation…
Work on a new ice-breaker which will work for Sovcomflot in the Sakhalin-2 project has started at the Arctech Helsinki shipyard with a festive keel laying. The vessel is the first of four icebreaking sister ships Sovcomflot has ordered…
Amsterdam-based SBM Offshore announced that it received from Petrobras the formal invitation to tender for the Sépia and Libra FPSOs (floating production, storage and offloading), as referenced in the company’s Q3 trading update of 11 November…
Ultra Deep Group (UDS) has announced that it has signed a contract to build a DP2 FiFi2 multipurpose diving support construction vessel (DSCV) ANDY WARHOL with Wu Chang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co. The ANDY WARHOL is designed according…
Saipem has been awarded new engineering and construction offshore contracts cumulatively valued at US$196 million (€180 million). The most significant initiatives are: Johan Sverdrup Export Pipelines Project Statoil, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partners…
Bibby Offshore's subsidiary Bibby Subsea has won a multi-million dollar decommissioning project in the US Gulf of Mexico, starting in 1H 2016. Bibby is mobilizing its dive support vessel Bibby Sapphire from the North Sea for the work…
Statoil, Gassco and ExxonMobil have received consent for manned underwater operations in 2016, from the Petroleum Saftey Authority (PSA) of Norway. The services are to be supplied by Technip and Subsea 7. Image from Statoil…
Norway-based geoscience firm Dolphin Geophysical has filed for bankruptcy just days after warning it had struggled to restructure its debt and capital structure. The firm, whose shares halved last Thursday after it warned it could have to file for insolvency…
The platform supply vessels Viking Lady and Viking Athene have been awarded a contract with Total E&P Norge for one well starting mid December 2015. The duration of this contract is estimated to 75 days. Viking Prince has also…
Total has brought on stream its ninth project since the start of this year, its Moho Phase 1b project, 75km off Pointe-Noire, Congo. The project, with 40,000 boe/d production capacity, sits in 750-1200m water depth and comprises 11 new…
BP has reached a major milestone with its Quad 204 redevelopment project 175km west of Shetland. The firm's new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, the Glen Lyon, has left Hyundai Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea and started sea trials…
Norway-based geoscience firm Dolphin Group has said it may be forced into insolvency if it is not able to restructure its business. The firm, which owns Dolphin Geophysical, saw shares halve in trading this morning, following its announcement…
Offshore rope manufacturer Lankhorst Euronete Brasil (LEB) has been awarded a contract by OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG to supply the polyester mooring ropes for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the Libra oil field…
Germany's Wintershall has made a minor oil discovery on the Syrah exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The operation, in production license 248, included wild cat well 35/11-18, targeting Middle Jurassic rocks in the Brent group…
Fugro has been awarded a three-year contract by PGS for the provision of precise satellite positioning systems for its entire seismic vessel fleet. Fugro, a provider of precise satellite positioning to the offshore oil and gas industry…