Drydocks World has completed a major repair and refurbishment of National Drilling Company’s (NDC) jackup drilling rig Al Ittihad. The company has carried out maintenance work on several of NDC’s rigs and the numbers have increased over the years…
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…
Belgium's Exmar and Canada's Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE), through its wholly-owned affiliate Pacific Midstream Holding, announced the ordering of a barge-based floating LNG regasification unit under a 50/50 joint venture. The unit will…
Shallow water subsea systems can be an ideal solution for improving marginal field net present value. Jerry Streeter, Field Development Manager, for FMC Technologies, Inc., explains. Very little has been published recently on shallow…
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Norce Offshore Pte Ltd, has signed a contract with Chevron Offshore (Thailand) Ltd, Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production Ltd. and Chevron Pattani Ltd. (together Chevron) in Thailand using the derrick-lay barge (DLB)…
Bumi Armada Caspian LLC signed a supplementary agreement worth RM567.6 million (US$178.5 million) with OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft for EPIC (engineering, procurement, installation and pre-commissioning) work in the Caspian Sea’s Russian sector…
DSME signed a contract on 25th June with Atwood Oceanics, a USA based ocean drilling company, for the construction of one drillship. This is the option of last year’s contract with a value of about US$570 million USD and it will be delivered at the end of 2015…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) approved Walter Oil & Gas Corp.’s permit application to drill a relief well at South Timbalier 220 in the US Gulf of Mexico, using the Rowan EXL-3 jack-up rig. The well is expected to be drilled on Thursday…
Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services company, Bumi Armada Berhad announced that its wholly-owned Russian subsidiary, Bumi Armada Caspian LLC signed a supplementary agreement worth RM567.6 million (US$178.5 million) with OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft for EPIC (engineering…
At OTC Fincantieri unveiled a new next generation drillship design, Overdrill, created with support from Norway’s Aker Solutions. The vessel, at 208m long and 40m wide, accommodating 210 people, aims to be smaller than existing units through…
European editor Elaine Maslin went to visit Huisman’s yard in Schiedam, Netherlands, as the finishing touches were being carried out on the Noble Globetrotter II. When offshore lifting, pipelay and drilling firm Huisman decided…
FloaTEC (S)Pte Ltd successfully completed the mating operation of the topsides and hull of Petrobras P-61, Brazil’s first Tension Leg Wellhead Platform (TLWP) near shore to BrasFELS yard in Angra Dos Reis, Brazil. The P-61 TLWP, which uses FloaTEC’s ETLP proprietary design…
ABB has been picked to supply the power and propulsion systems for a new deepwater pipelay vessel. The vessel, tentatively named Derrick Lay Vessel 2000 (DLV2000), will be constructed at Keppel Singmarine in Singapore and delivered in 2015 to Hydro Marine Services…
McDermott picked up a Bentley Systems innovation in construction award at the infrastructure software provider’s recent ‘Be Inspired’ gathering in Amsterdam for the early delivery of the Su Tu Vang central processing platform at the Cuu Long project offshore Vietnam…
The world's largest deepwater well intervention ship recently set sail from Norway, bound for its first offshore contract. Before it left port, Terry Knott visited the newbuild Skandi Aker to find out what makes this vessel stand out from the pack…