Leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, has recently been awarded a spooling contract with Vard Group for a construction vessel. The scope of work includes the spooling of two 3500m ROV umbilicals, the spooling of a crane boom wire and aux wire…
A. K. Suda (SUDA) has successfully completed the design of a 320ft (97.5m) truss-legged liftboat, the Jinshan 1. Image from SUDA. This state-of-the-art vessel is a 4-legged, self-propelled…
MISC Berhad has entered the Thailand offshore oil and gas market after winning a US$230 million, 10-year deal with Chevron for the lease and operations of a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO). MISC’s wholly-owned subsidiary…
Singaporean shipbuilder Sembcorp Marine is set to acquire 100% equity stake in Norway-headquartered LMG Marin for US$20 million. LMG is a naval architecture as well as ship design and engineering house with offices in Poland and France…
Premier Oil and its partners in the upcoming shallow water bid round offshore Mexico are anticipating to go out to tender for a moored, semisubmersible rig for Block 7 in Q4 2016, the company revealed in its 1H 2016 report. Map of Blocks 2 and 7…
Lady Sponsor Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil, has named Maersk Drilling’s newest jackup, the Maersk Highlander, at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Image of Watkins, from Maersk. Maersk…
SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad has delivered its sixth and final pipelay vessel (PLV), the Sapura Rubi on schedule to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras) and the vessel started work in Brazil on 14 August 2016. Image of the Sapura Diamante…
Tullow Oil has achieved first oil from the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) fields offshore Ghana with MODEC’s Prof. John Evans Atta Mills floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel. Prof…
Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (UK) Ltd. completed the industry’s first riser-based coiled tubing intervention project from a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) class light well intervention vessel (LWIV). The Well Enhancer…
Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache. Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble…
Utility ROV Services (URS), has unveiled two new custom ROV (remotely operated vehicle) systems at their base in Glenrothes, Scotland demonstrating a US$7.8 million (£6 million) investment in the company. As a result of the additional capacity the extra systems will provide…
Technip and DOF Subsea’s 50:50 joint venture TechDof Brasil has taken final delivery of the pipe-lay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Açu, and started its eight-year charter contract with Petrobras on 13 August. Skandi Açu…
Total E&P Uruguay awarded Fugro a contract to support its drilling campaign offshore Uruguay. The contract provides for ROV and tooling services in the Raya-1 prospect in 3400m water depth. Fugro is supplying two state-of-the-art 200hp FCV 4000D work-class ROV systems and subsea tooling…
Quayside Fabrication has designed a subsea basket that can be stacked and secured on a vessel while at sea. The newly named ‘Stackable at Sea’ subsea baskets can save valuable deck space and can result in fewer trips to sea for oil companies…
Quadrant Energy’s Driftwood-1 commitment well intersected water wet objectives offshore Western Australia. Image of the Tom Prosser, from Noble. Driftwood-1, is in the WA-320-P permit…