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Wärtsilä wins Höegh FSRU work

Aug 25, 2016

Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the re-gasification system for an FSRU (floating, storage, re-gasification unit) conversion project that Höegh LNG plans to carry out on a modern LNG vessel. Wärtsilä…

Hansa delivers P-67 FPSO pipe racks

Aug 25, 2016

Hansa Heavy Lift has transported five pipe racks and three modules, weighing a total of 1871.51-tonne and measuring 24,075cu m, for a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, the P-67, due to be stationed off the coast of Brazil…

Statoil starts production from Fram C East

Aug 24, 2016

Statoil started production from the subsea Fram C East satellite offshore Norway, which will help boost the nearby Troll C’s production and activities. Subsea template at Fram. Images from Statoil. The…

ACE inks construction vessel contract

Aug 24, 2016

Leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, has recently been awarded a spooling contract with Vard Group for a construction vessel. The scope of work includes the spooling of two 3500m ROV umbilicals, the spooling of a crane boom wire and aux wire…

SUDA completes Jinshan 1

Aug 23, 2016

A. K. Suda (SUDA) has successfully completed the design of a 320ft (97.5m) truss-legged liftboat, the Jinshan 1. Image from SUDA. This state-of-the-art vessel is a 4-legged, self-propelled…

MISC inks Chevron Benchamas 2 work

Aug 23, 2016

MISC Berhad has entered the Thailand offshore oil and gas market after winning a US$230 million, 10-year deal with Chevron for the lease and operations of a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO). MISC’s wholly-owned subsidiary…

Sembcorp acquires LMG Marin

Aug 22, 2016

Singaporean shipbuilder Sembcorp Marine is set to acquire 100% equity stake in Norway-headquartered LMG Marin for US$20 million. LMG is a naval architecture as well as ship design and engineering house with offices in Poland and France…

Premier, partners to tender semisub off Mexico

Aug 19, 2016

Premier Oil and its partners in the upcoming shallow water bid round offshore Mexico are anticipating to go out to tender for a moored, semisubmersible rig for Block 7 in Q4 2016, the company revealed in its 1H 2016 report. Map of Blocks 2 and 7…

Maersk names newest jackup Maersk Highlander

Aug 18, 2016

Lady Sponsor Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil, has named Maersk Drilling’s newest jackup, the Maersk Highlander, at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Image of Watkins, from Maersk. Maersk…

SapuraKencana delivers Sapura Rubi to Petrobras

Aug 18, 2016

SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad has delivered its sixth and final pipelay vessel (PLV), the Sapura Rubi on schedule to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras) and the vessel started work in Brazil on 14 August 2016. Image of the Sapura Diamante…

Video: Tullow's TEN delivers first oil

Aug 18, 2016

Tullow Oil has achieved first oil from the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) fields offshore Ghana with MODEC’s Prof. John Evans Atta Mills floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel. Prof…

Helix achieves first riser-based coiled tubing intervention

Aug 18, 2016

Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (UK) Ltd. completed the industry’s first riser-based coiled tubing intervention project from a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) class light well intervention vessel (LWIV). The Well Enhancer…

Noble adds to stacked list

Aug 17, 2016

Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache. Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble…

URS investment adds ROV capacity

Aug 16, 2016

Utility ROV Services (URS), has unveiled two new custom ROV (remotely operated vehicle) systems at their base in Glenrothes, Scotland demonstrating a US$7.8 million (£6 million) investment in the company.  As a result of the additional capacity the extra systems will provide…

TechDof starts Petrobras work with Skandi Açu

Aug 16, 2016

Technip and DOF Subsea’s 50:50 joint venture TechDof Brasil has taken final delivery of the pipe-lay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Açu, and started its eight-year charter contract with Petrobras on 13 August. Skandi Açu…

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