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Wartsila wins Siem Offshore PSV deal

Feb 17, 2014

Following similar orders placed in November 2012 and August 2013, Norway-based Siem Offshore contracted Wärtsilä to supply the design and integrated solutions for four new platform supply vessels (PSVs). The ships will be built at the Remontowa Shipbuilding yard in Poland…

Seatricity orders first Oceanus 2

Feb 17, 2014

A&P Falmouth has been awarded a contract by Seatricity to build a wave energy device to be deployed at the offshore renewable test facility Wave Hub. A&P Falmouth, in Falmouth, UK, will manufacture, fabricate, and assemble the wave energy converting device…

ClampOn on Gina Krog

Feb 14, 2014

Norway's ClampOn has won an order to supply 130 topside leak monitors for Statoil’s Gina Krog project (pictured). The contract was awarded by Solberg & Andersen in Bergen, Norway, and will be part of their ValveWatch condition monitoring system…

Mariner FSU gets Wärtsilä pumps

Feb 14, 2014

Finland's Wärtsilä has signed a contract for a range of pumping solutions for a new floating storage unit (FSU) to be used on the Mariner oilfield in the North Sea (pictured). Wärtsilä's contract is with South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI)…

Kvaerner wins Aasta Hansteen hook-up

Feb 13, 2014

Hyundai Heavy Industries (Hyundai) has awarded Kvaerner a sub-contract to provide services for inshore and offshore hook-up and commissioning assistance for the topsides for the Aasta Hansteen spar project (pictured). The inshore-work…

ONEgas renews AMEC contract

Feb 13, 2014

UK-based engineering and project management firm AMEC and its partners in the AJS joint venture, Jacobs and Stork, have secured a five-year contract extension for the integrated services contract for the Shell ONEgas assets in the southern North Sea…

Johan Sverdrup plan agreed

Feb 13, 2014

Statoil and its partners on the giant Johan Sverdrup field have chosen a four-platform development concept, with power from shore. The field, containing 1.8-2.9billion boe, is one of the five largest discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…

Bergen Group to buy Scanmet

Feb 12, 2014

Bergen Group Hanøytangen is in takeover talks with the owners of Norwegian decommissioning firm Scanmet AS. Bergen Group says Scanmet AS is among the oldest and most experienced companies in Norway that carry out decommissioning of oil installations in the North Sea…

Oilfield spending conundrum

Feb 12, 2014

The past few weeks have seen a string of profit warnings and capital spending cutbacks from global oil and gas exploration majors. Should oilfield service companies be worried that the good times are coming to an end?  According to bank and investment company Investec…

Maersk Denmark uses Plexus

Feb 12, 2014

Plexus Holdings has been awarded its first contract with Maersk Oil’s Danish business unit to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the Danish North Sea. The initial value of the contract is about £1…

DeepOcean goes geotechnical

Feb 12, 2014

Norway headquartered DeepOcean Group has moved into the offshore geotechnical services market by acquiring ageotechnical drilling rig and agreeing a strategic alliance with Swiss firm Geoquip Marine. The strategic alliance will see the…

Petrobras inks Helix deal

Feb 12, 2014

Houston-based Helix Energy Solutions is to provide Petrobras with well intervention services for a minimum four years, using two new-build vessels. The two new monohull vessels, being built at the Flensburger shipyard in Germany for Norway’s…

Proserv buys KRG

Feb 11, 2014

Energy production technology services company Proserv has bought KRG Industries Ltd from majority shareholder Torishima Pump Mfg. Co. Ltd, (Torishima) in Japan. KRG provides precision engineering services to the oil and gas and aerospace and defense industries…

Technip takes on Åsgard

Feb 11, 2014

Operator Statoil is to use Technip for intervention services on its Åsgard subsea compression project in the Norwegian Sea. The Åsgard field lies on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, about 200km off Norway. TheÅsgard subsea compression…

TGS inks European deals

Feb 11, 2014

Norwegian geoscience firm TGS has signed a Letter of Award with WesternGeco to charter the high-capacity 12-streamer vessel M/V Geco Eagle for 3D multi-client projects in Northwest Europe during the 2014 summer season. The charter will…

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