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GlobalData: Liza could redefine Guyana-Suriname

Oct 22, 2015

With ExxonMobil reported to be moving the Liza discovery in deepwater Guyana into pre-front-end engineering design (FEED) less than five months after confirming the find, the project has the potential to yield significant returns for investors…

CGG starts Brazil BroadSeis

Oct 22, 2015

CGG received all necessary permits to start acquiring the industry’s first regional broadband seismic survey of the Barreirinhas basin in the Equatorial Margin of northern Brazil in early November. Oceanic Vega…

Damen, Delta Marine construct new vessel design

Oct 21, 2015

Image: RSV 3315 artist's design/Damen Shipyards Group The close working relationship between Delta Marine and the Damen Shipyards Group has produced a new vessel design – called a Damen Renewables Service Vessel 3315…

1 dead in GoM accident

Oct 20, 2015

An accident onboard the drillship Pacific Santa Ana has left one worker dead. The news was confirmed by the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), operator Chevron, and the drillship's owner, Pacific Drilling. The Pacific…

EMAS secures Africa, Asia contracts

Oct 20, 2015

EMAS Offshore secured additional options for extensions on an existing contract, as well as new awards for charters with an oil major and independent oil company in West Africa and Asia valued at more than US$33 million (including options)…

Flintstone releases new mooring system

Oct 20, 2015

Flintstone Technology has launched its latest product, the pull through mooring connector system, which provides a method of connection and disconnection for mooring lines to midwater buoys or floating facilities.  The pull through connector…

Sevan connected to Petrobras scandal

Oct 19, 2015

Norwegian authorities performed a search and seizure of Sevan Drilling’s offices last week, after corrupt activities between Sevan Drilling and Brazil’s Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) were exposed in an independent external review conducted by Sevan Marine…

TGS completes 25% of Gigante seismic

Oct 19, 2015

TGS announced that it has acquired 46,500km (25%) of the 186,000km 2D seismic project, Gigante.  The survey is being acquired with four Seabird vessels and the fifth vessel, m/v Aquila, will join the survey in early November.  Gigante…

Gemini foundations installed in record time

Oct 19, 2015

Van Oord has completed the installation of the 150th foundation at the Gemini Wind Park in a record time of 3.5 months. On the 1 of July 2015, Van Oord’s newbuild installation vessel Aeolus, together with Swire Blue Oceans Pacific Osprey…

Payday for Lukoil’s Lira

Oct 14, 2015

Russia’s Lukoil discovered natural gas pay at its deepwater Lira field in the Black Sea, offshore Romania. The Transocean Development Driller II. Image from Lukoil. The Lira-1X…

OMS completes Kaombo subsea project

Oct 14, 2015

Image: Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore Project/Optical Metrology Services Optical Metrology Services (OMS) completed a series of pipe measurement surveys for the Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore…

Technip gets Skandi Africa newbuild

Oct 13, 2015

Newbuild flexible lay and construction vessel, Skandi Africa, has joined the industry leading Technip fleet, following the signing of the on-hire agreement in Schiedam, Netherlands on 5 October. The ship, owned by DOF Subsea, has now begun her five-year charter commitment…

SAAM SMIT inks Damen tug

Oct 13, 2015

Image: ASD Tug 2913/Damen Shipyards  SAAM SMIT Towage, the joint venture between SAAM of Chile and Dutch company Royal Boskalis Westminster, has signed a contract for the purchase of a Damen Tug 2913 for delivery in early 2016…

DONG removes WWII bombs from Norfolk coast

Oct 13, 2015

More than 40 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II have been safely detonated or removed from the Norfolk coast, having been discovered on the export cable route for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm.   Image…

Bourbon to use Kongsberg E-LARS

Oct 12, 2015

Kongsberg Evotec, a fully owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, signed an agreement with Bourbon Offshore Norway for the delivery of the E-LARS launch and recovery system for remote operated vehicles (ROV). The delivery will take place in December 2015…

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