Ocean Rig UDW Inc. announced on 15 January 2015 that it has received commitments from lenders for a syndicated secured term loan designed to partially finance the construction costs of the Ocean Rig Apollo. The facility amount is for the…
Luxembourg-based Maritime Construction Services’ subsidiary New Orient Marine awarded Keppel Singmarine a US$200 million contract to build an ice-class multi-purpose vessel. The ice-class vessel will be designed to operate in temperature…
Oceaneering International entered into a two-year, multi-service vessel charter agreement with Shell for use of the Ocean Alliance in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) commencing January 1, 2015. The Ocean Alliance is a US-flagged vessel built in 2010…
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) launched its newest vessel, the MSC Oscar. The MSC Oscar. From MSC. The MSC Oscar has a 19,224 TEU capacity and is the largest container vessel ever built in regards to TEU capacity…
Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard awarded Ezra Holding subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), a contract to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field’s extended well test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large…
Mexico’s Cotemar S.A. De C.V. took delivery of its new emisubmersible vessel from Cosco (Nantong) Shipyard Co. The vessel, Neptuno, measures 91m in length, 67m in breadth and 27.5m in depth.
Independent oil firm Premier Oil is sticking to an eight-well exploration campaign in 2015, including its four-well campaign in the Falkland Islands, due to start in March, and its first well in the emerging Mandal High play offshore Norway…
Statoil’s request to drill at Knappen prospect in the central North Sea has been granted approval from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA). Drillng is scheduled to begin next month at well 16/7-11 using the Songa Trym semisubmersible drilling facility…
Schnitger President Monica Schnitger urged oil and gas companies to explore and exploit the latest technologies to have successful projects at the 2014 Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure conference. Meg Chesshyre has more. “I’m…
Northern Offshore International Drilling Co. is in the midst of filing a US$50 million claim against Camac Energy for canceling the Energy Searcher drilling contract earlier this month. The Energy Searcher…
Van Oord took delivery of Damen’s offshore carrier (DOC) 8500 cable laying vessel, the Nexus. The Nexus. From Damen. The Nexus is a 126-m vessel that will be used for the installation…
Mexican national oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) took delivery of its first of two KFELS B Class jackup rigs from Singapore’s Keppel FELS. The Yunuen jackup. From Keppel. The…
EMAS AMC's subsea division EMAS has secured a subsea construction contract for its newbuild flagship vessel with Apache Energy in Australia valued worth more than AUZ$130 million (approximately US$105 million). The work scope includes project management…
Lundin Norway received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA) for exploration drilling at the Gemini prospect in the Central North Sea. The Island Innovator. From Island Drilling…
A unique and long-awaited sight arrived at one of Europe's busiest ports today - Allseas' 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte. The giant €2.2billion, twin-hull vessel left…