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TRIYARDS newbuild wins OSJ award

Apr 07, 2016

The TRIYARDS Holdings built Lewek Constellation ice-class DP3 multi-lay vessel, was named Support Vessel of the Year at the 2016 Offshore Support Journal (OSJ) Awards. Only offshore support vessels (OSVs) deemed to have raised the bar…

Houlder in Rampion wind farm tool delivery

Apr 07, 2016

Houlder delivered the first of two offshore pile upending tools for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm development, off the UK’s Sussex coast. Image of Houlder's offshore pile upending tools, from Houlder…

Lukoil to explore two Baltic Sea fields

Apr 07, 2016

Russia’s Lukoil has been granted approval from the Russian Federation Government for hydrocarbon exploration and production in two Baltic Sea fields. Lukoil will explore the D29 and D41 oil fields, which were both discovered in 2015, using the Arktichesksaya jackup drilling rig…

Hercules gains Aramco extension

Apr 07, 2016

Saudi Aramco has extended a contract with Hercules Offshore for the Hercules 266 jackup, for work offshore Saudi Arabia. The contract extension will last until 30 June at a dayrate of US$63,650. The original contract was set to end this month…

Wärtsilä wins vessel design contract

Apr 06, 2016

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to provide the design for a new jackup lift vessel. The contract was signed in March with a well-known Chinese yard and includes an option for three additional vessels. The Wärtsilä design was developed in collaboration with Altis…

Keppel bags Modec FPSO deal

Apr 06, 2016

Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiary, Keppel FELS Brasil BrasFELS shipyard has been awarded a US$137 million floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) module fabrication and integration project by Modec Offshore Production Systems (Singapore)…

Woodside, Clough enter engineering services contract

Apr 06, 2016

Clough has been awarded an engineering services contract by Woodside Energy. Clough will work as part of an engineering panel to provide multi-disciplinary engineering services for Woodside.  The contract covers the full spectrum of engineering…

Kosmos gains operatorship of two blocks

Apr 06, 2016

Kosmos Energy Sao Tome and Principe (Kosmos) has gained operatorship of Block 5 and 12, offshore West Africa in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe (STP), as part of a farm-in (65%) agreement with Equator Exploration…

Geolog, Quad start partnership

Apr 06, 2016

Geolog International and Quad Operations, also known as QO Inc. (Quad), have entered into a strategic partnership alliance to leverage each other’s respective capabilities in providing a broader spectrum of services to their client base.  Geolog…

Carnarvon ups West Auz acreage

Apr 06, 2016

Carnarvon Petroleum secured 100% interest in the WA-521-P offshore exploration permit in the Roebuck basin on Western Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS). Positioned adjacent to the Phoenix/Roc acreage, Carnarvon has been studying the…

Asco inks BP Norway renewal

Apr 05, 2016

BP has renewed its contract with Asco for its Norwegian operations.  The supply services contract will be delivered across Norway, providing support in Tananger and Farsund, as well as further services in the northerly base of Sandnessjøen…

BOEM announces lease sale offshore Texas

Apr 05, 2016

As part of President Obama’s continued commitment to safe and responsible domestic energy production, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) director Abigail Ross Hopper has announced the bureau will offer approximately 23.5 million acres…

Bibby gets North Sea decom work

Apr 05, 2016

Bibby Offshore (BOUK), a subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has secured a multimillion dollar contract with a North Sea Operator, to deliver decommissioning operations in the Northern North Sea East Shetland Basin.  The agreement…

Stena lands four vessel contract

Apr 05, 2016

The board of directors of AVIC International Maritime Holdings (AVIC Maritime) has announced that it has entered into a contract, as a co-seller, for four RoPax vessels with two plus two options with Stena RoRo, a subsidiary of Swedish ship owner…

Jee wins Tullow North Sea decommissioning work

Apr 05, 2016

Tullow Oil awarded subsea engineering and training firm Jee a contract to investigate the most appropriate options for decommissioning their Thames area assets in the North Sea. Awarded in February 2016, the contract relates to the decommissioning of the Horne…

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