Drilling in HoustonInternational oil services group Aker Solutions is about to open North America's most advanced drilling equipment simulator in Houston, Texas. The simulator will be available to rig operators with the objective of making offshore drilling operations safer and more cost effective. Full text |
Subsea production system award to Aker Solutions
KONGSBERG signs deal with offshore intallation group
Prosafe SE: Contract for Safe Astoria at North Rankin Redevelopment Project
Technip awarded contract by Valiant for Causeway development
Eni announces a giant gas discovery offshore Mozambique
GC RIEBER Shipping announce contract for new subsea vessel
Fairmount Glacier positioned FPSO Usan offshore Nigeria
Hydroid Signs Contract with NOAA for REMUS 600 AUV
Rotork actuates sub-sea safety valve installations at Egyptian gas field
Reef Subsea extends its range of activities by providing installation and trenching services
Saipem awarded new E&C Offshore contracts worth $1.5 billion
ABB to power subsea oil and gas field in the depths of the Norwegian Sea
EnerMech Gets Lift With £3 Million Maersk Oil Crane Contract
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International oil services group Aker Solutions is about to open North America's most advanced drilling equipment simulator in Houston, Texas. The simulator will be available to rig operators with the objective of making offshore drilling operations safer and more cost effective. Full text
Aker Solutions has been awarded a job by Statoil for the engineering, procurement and construction of a subsea production system for the Svalin project on the Norwegian continental shelf. The contract value is approximately NOK 400 million. Full text
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (KOGT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, has signed an agreement to supply a flexible risers and umbilicals installation system for the ‘Capstan Reel Installation System’ (CRIS), to the Offshore Installation Group (OIG). The patented CRIS design simplifies the subsea installation process, enabling a reduction in installation time and risk, which translates to significant cost savings. Full text
Prosafe has been awarded a 150-day contract using the Safe Astoria for accommodation support at the Woodside operated North West Shelf Project's North Rankin Redevelopment Project, offshore Western Australia. Full text
Technip was awarded by Valiant Causeway Limited a lump sum contract, worth approximately €33 million, for the Causeway field development. This field is located about 450 kilometers North-east of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of 150 metres. Full text
The results of appraisal well 16/2-10 have increased production license PL265 estimates to between 900 million and 1.5 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.
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Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has entered into an agreement to sell its 20 percent share of license PL435 on Haltenbanken to OMV (Norge) AS. License PL435 contains the gas discovery Zidane-1 which was made in 2010. This discovery is estimated to contain between 5 and 18 billion standard cubic metres of recoverable gas. The second exploration well in the license is named Zidane-2 and is planned to be drilled later this year. Full text
Eni announces a giant natural gas discovery at the Mamba South 1 prospect, in the Area 4 Offshore Mozambique. The discovery well encountered a total of 212 meters of continuous gas pay in high-quality Oligocene sands. Full text
GC Rieber Shipping has signed a two year contract for its second subsea newbuild with the Mexican company Oceanografia. The vessel, which will be named "Polar Queen", has recently been handed over from the Spanish shipyard Freire Shipyard, and the contract will start up in November. Full text
Fairmount Marine’s powerful tug Fairmount Glacier has successfully assisted in the installation of the floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Usan, offshore Nigeria. For this operation Fairmount was contracted by Saipem Energies, which needed a 200 ton bollard pull tug for this job. Full text