Subsea 7 SA's i-Tech division has been awarded a contract by Petrobras worth about US$60 million. The contract is for the provision of ROV’s and underwater positioning services on board the platform supply vessel (PSV) Far Saga, operating offshore Brazil…
Petrobras, the operator for the BM-S-9 consortium, announced that the company's affiliate, Guará BV, has signed a letter of intent to charter, through Modec Inc. and Schahin Petróleo e Gás S.A., an FPSO for use in production development of the pre-salt layer in the Carioca area…
By Thom Payne, Douglas-Westwood Singapore Last week’s auction for production rights to Brazil’s 12 billion bbl Libra field has dominated industry headlines. However, despite years of media and market analyst hyperbole the scale of Petrobras’…
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has won a contract with Permaducto SA de CV for an offshore installation project in Mexico. Under the contract, SHL will execute work offshore Mexico in a joined offshore program for Pemex’s KuMaZa/Cantarell project…
PEMEX Exploration and Production (PEP) has awarded Spain's Dragados Offshore a pipelay contract worth nearly $200million. Dragados will lay 38km of pipelines linking production platforms in the shallow-water Xanab and Yaxche oil fields in…
INTECSEA, a global company within the Worley Parsons Group, is featuring its new semisubmersible design at the Deep Offshore Technology (DOT) conference this week. The company says the new design enables dry tree applications in harsh environments…
Europa Oil & Gas says a 1500sq km 3D seismic acquisition program on Frontier Exploration Licences (FELs) 2/13 and 3/13 in the South Porcupine basin, offshore Ireland, using the MV Polarcus Amani, has completed. Kosmos Energy Ireland…
Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam (NL), part of Damen Shipyards Group, has been contracted again by Rederij Groen (NL) after delivering two chasers, the ‘Aquarius-G’ and the ‘Astra-G’, earlier this year. The new seismic research support vessel (SSRV) deliveries are planned for Q3 2014…
Sevan Drilling ASA today (October 23) took delivery of the Sevan Louisiana from Cosco Quidong Shipyard in China. The drilling rig has a cylindrical hull design and will be capable of drilling in water depths to 10,000ft. Sevan Louisiana…
Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Summit has delivered the semisubmersible rig Ocean Valiant safely in the port of Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Fairmount Summit towed the rig from offshore Cameroon over a distance of almost 3000 miles. The…
The Underwater Centre in Fort William, Scotland, has invested in two new barges to meet the demand for its commercial diving and ROV Pilot Technician training courses. The new vessels, the renamed Loch Sunart and Loch Scavaig, have been purchased from Western Ferries (Clyde) Limited…
Petrobras’ P-55 Floating Production Unit (FPU), the largest and the first of this kind entirely built in Brazil, is on its way to the Roncador field, Campos basin, where it will be installed in a water depth of 1,790m. The column-stabilized semisubmersible has a capacity of 180…
Eni Norge’s exploration well on the Bønna prospect was dry, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). The wildcat well 7016/2-1 was the first drilled in production license 529 in the Barents Sea, about 185km southwest of the Snøhvit field and 160km northwest of Tromsø…
Two agreements announced today will see subsea services firm DeepOcean take on a newbuild installation vessel and Norwegian shipyard Kleven undertake its largest order to date. DeepOcean has agreed to a five and a half year charter, starting March 2016…
Platform supply vessel Edda Ferd (hull C-444) departed from the Gondan shipyard in Spain, bound for Gijon port to carry out sea trials. The vessel is the eighth built by the shipyard for the Norwegian company Ostensjo Rederi and its delivery is scheduled for November 2013…