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Teekay's Arendal Spirit

Feb 17, 2015

Teekay Offshore provides a look at their newest first floating accommodation vessel, the Arendal Spirit, during its sea trials. Teekay took delivery of the vessel from Cosco's Nantong yard just this week.  The Arendal Spirit is…

Sevan delivers Teekay's first flotel

Feb 17, 2015

Teekay Offshore Partners has taken delivery of its first floating accommodation vessel, the Arendal Spirit, from Cosco's Nantong yard. The unit, a Sevan Marine cylindrical design, has accommodation for 500 people. A further two vessels are on order…

HB installs BHP Billiton temporary LQ complex

Feb 16, 2015

HB Rentals completed the installation of an end-to-end package for BHP Billiton, consisting of offshore accommodation modules and operating essentials for water, sewage, power and lighting. The BHP Billiton project is in the Angostura field…

Lundin spuds at Gemini

Feb 16, 2015

Lundin Petroleum began drilling the 16/1-24 exploration well at the Gemini prospect, just southwest of the Edvard Grieg field. The Island Innovator, from Island Drilling.   The well is located in Block 16/1…

Westcon wins Transocean Leader contract

Feb 13, 2015

Westcon Yards won a contract to conduct a special periodic survey (SPS) and inspection on the Transocean Leader semisubmersible. The Transocean Leader. From Transocean.   The company said the original plan was for the rig to arrive in March…

Boskalis introduces White Marlin

Feb 12, 2015

Boskalis announced that the Dockwise vessel White Marlin was named and christened during a festive ceremony in Guangzhou, China. Following the ceremony, the semisubmersible heavy transport vessel will be mobilized to Singapore for its maiden…

Sechin: Oil markets are in acute crisis

Feb 10, 2015

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin addressed the International Petroleum (IP) Week forum in London, stating that the oil markets are in a fairly acute crisis. Image from Rosneft.   “In the second half of 2014 there was a drop in oil prices…

MPD enhances pre-salt drilling

Feb 10, 2015

With the discovery of deepwater pre-salt reservoirs offshore Brazil, national operator Petrobras began complex drilling operations to uncork the massive hydrocarbon reserves under these salt layers, which acted as seals, preventing the oil and gas from escaping…

N-Sea launches

Feb 10, 2015

Inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) specialists N-Sea has launched its third diving support daughter craft. The Edradour represents a £1.5 million investment for the company and will be immediately used in its IMR operations across the North Sea…

Dolphin awarded African 3D seismic contract

Feb 06, 2015

Dolphin Geophysical was awarded a 3D seismic contract including fast track data processing by an undisclosed major oil company for a three to four month project offshore Africa. A Dolphin high-capacity 3D vessel will begin operations during 2Q 2015.

Saipem gets US$1.8 billion Kashagan gig

Feb 06, 2015

The North Caspian Operating Co. (NCOC) awarded Saipem a US$1.8 billion engineering and construction contract to build two pipelines for the Kashagan field project, offshore Kazakhstan. Image from NCOC…

Polarcus appoints CEO

Feb 05, 2015

Rod Starr joins Polarcus as its next chief executive officer (CEO) effective 5 February. Starr has more than 30 years industry experience, starting his career with Unocal where he spent 16 years in various planning and financial roles…

25 years in the planning – Allseas’ Pieter Schelte arrives

Feb 04, 2015

A unique and long-awaited sight arrived at one of Europe’s busiest ports early January - Allseas’ 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte. KOTUG…

Coming attraction

Feb 04, 2015

EMAS AMC’s flagship vessel, the Lewek Constellation, is close to completion at Huisman’s yard in Schiedam, Netherlands. Image from EMAS.   The latest addition to EMAS AMC’s fleet has…

Aegir’s first project

Feb 04, 2015

Heerema Marine Contractor’s new multi-purpose construction vessel Aegir completed its first job in the Gulf of Mexico. Meg Chesshyre reports. Aegir. Images from Heerema Marine Contractors.    The…

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