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Huisman wins Maersk crane order

Jan 26, 2015

COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard awarded Huisman a contract for the delivery of four customized 400mt rope luffing knuckle boom cranes and two 100mt knuckle boom cranes onboard four new subsea support vessels (SSVs) for Maersk Supply Service. MT 6027…

InterMoor completes Juniper contract

Jan 26, 2015

InterMoor completed a mooring and foundation installation campaign for bpTT’s Juniper gas project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Image from InterMoor.   According to InterMoor, this is…

Suncor gets Norwegian Sea nod

Jan 26, 2015

Suncor Energy Norge received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill at exploration well 34/4 in the Norwegian Sea. The well is located in the Suncor-operated production license 375, in Block 34/4. Drilling will begin this month for a period of 154 days…

Statoil using Spitsbergen for wildcat

Jan 23, 2015

Statoil is bringing the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible back to the waters to drill a wildcat well in the Snedrid Nord prospect, after gaining consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). Transocean Spitsbergen…

Santos completes 2D off Bangladesh

Jan 22, 2015

The Binh Minh 2 vessel completed a 3146km 2D seismic acquisition program in the Santos-operated SS-11 block, offshore Bangladesh. Block SS-11 covers an area of 4475sq km in the Bay of Bengal over the Bengal Fan. The majority of the block lies in shallow waters of up to 200m…

ABS awards AIP for HHI drillship

Jan 22, 2015

ABS awarded approval in principle (AIP) for Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) next-generation HD12000 heavy duty, wide beam drillship design. The drillship, which can accommodate a 20,000-psi blowout preventer system, has been designed in full…

UKCS offshore shipping tax warning

Jan 21, 2015

International accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens says companies in the offshore maritime sector could be among those hit by a 25% Diverted Profits Tax (DPT) charge under draft UK legislation scheduled to enter force in April 2015…

PetroRio acquires Shell Brazil fields

Jan 20, 2015

Brazil’s PetroRio is acquiring 80% interest in the Bijupirá and Salema fields, offshore Brazil from Shell Brasil Petróleo. Image of the Fluminense FPSO. From Modec.   The Bijupirá and Salema fields are located in the Campos basin…

Bourbon orders three FMC ROVs

Jan 20, 2015

French vessel operator Bourbon has commissioned three new next-generation heavy duty work ROVs (remote operated vehicles) designed by FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics. Capable of operating at depths of up to 3000m, the units will be deployed on multi-purpose support vessels (MPSV)…

CNIM gets Petrofac contract

Jan 19, 2015

Petrofac awarded CNIMa contract to design, build and commission a cooling system consisting of two custom-made absorption chillers to be installed aboard Petrofac’s new JSD6000 deepwater derrick lay vessel. The JSD6000 will be available in 2017…

Det norske bringing Viper-Kobra to life

Jan 16, 2015

Det norske is planning a US$238 million development for the Viper-Kobra fields near Alvheim in production license (PL) 203, in the central North Sea, off Norway. Map of Alvheim field. From Det norske…

DEME orders two new vessels

Jan 16, 2015

Belgian dredging, engineering and environmental group DEME has ordered two new vessels to serve the offshore energy market. Shipyards La Naval in Spain and Uljanik in Croatia will build the multipurpose vessel Living Stone and the self-propelled jackup Apollo…

Ulstein to build two offshore wind SOVs

Jan 15, 2015

Germany-based Bernhard Schulte awarded Ulstein Verft a ship building contract for two offshore wind service operation vessels (SOVs). Image from Ulstein. The SOVs are of the Ulstein SX175…

Saipem 7000 receives J-Lay tower

Jan 15, 2015

Fairmount Marine’s Fairmount Expedition tug delivered the biggest component of the 120m high J-Lay tower for one of the world’s biggest crane vessels, Saipem 7000, offshore Burgas, Bulgaria. The tower component was loaded on Saipem’s cargo barge S42…

Vroon launches new MPSVs

Jan 15, 2015

Vroon recently implemented two new multi-purpose platform-supply vessels (MPSVs).  The vessels, known as the VOS Primrose and VOS Prince, were launched on 10 Janurary and 11 Janurary 2015.  These vessels are the third and fourth additions to a series of 10 sister vessels…

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