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  • IOG sets new spud date for Skipper well

    7 June 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has scheduled the appraisal well on the Skipper oil discovery, which lies in the Northern North Sea, to be drilled in July 2016. In January, IOG postponed the drilling of the Skipper well, that lies in Block 9/21a in licence P1609, due to low oil price and bad weather in the North […]

  • Marine Mammal Monitoring Equipment Testing Conducted

    26 April 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Balmoral Subsea Test Centre in Aberdeen has carried out hydrostatic tests on equipment that will be used to monitor the interaction between tidal turbines and marine mammals in the Pentland Firth. The linear actuators that were tested form part of a marine mammal monitoring station anchored to the sea floor. Utilizing both passive- and […]

  • Serica to continue with Odfjell services on UK platform

    7 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Odfjell Drilling has received a contract extension from Serica Energy for operations on the Bruce platform off the UK.

  • Valaris to reactivate stacked drillship for Petrobras

    20 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has been awarded a contract with Petrobras offshore Brazil for a stacked drillship.

  • USA: Onondaga Lake Dredging Moves Ahead

    6 August 2012

    The job of digging out tons of contaminated sludge from the Onondaga Lake and piping it to Camillus began last Monday and continued non-stop throughout the week. Marlin, the biggest dredger of the three on the lake, started digging at 7 a.m. Monday and working around the clock through Saturday night, according to syracuse.com. It […]

  • Another Milestone for APM Terminals Maasvlakte II

    6 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The 18,300 TEU EEE-Class Marstal Maersk became the largest vessel to call the new Maasvlakte II expansion of the Port of Rotterdam, arriving Monday morning January 5th as part of the testing phase prior to regular weekly calls starting in February.  The vessel is 399-meters (1,310 feet) long and 59-meters (194 feet) wide and sails […]

  • Yukon Harbor Plan Unveiled

    10 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The new Yukon harbor will emerge on the north side of the Yangtze canal (port number 9845), according to the Port of Rotterdam Authority. The harbor basin will be located between the Euromax container terminal and the gate terminal of Vopak and Gasunie. The consortium Hakkers Van Oord will execute the assignment, which is commissioned by […]

  • Warkworth Harbor in Need of Dredging

    14 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Warkworth Harbor Commissioners have applied to the Marine Management Organization under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, Part 4, for a marine licence to remove sand from a deposit on the north side of Warkworth Harbor. The accumulated sand in this area has formed a large bank which is encroaching into the navigation channel, Northumberland […]

  • Ocean City Dredging Operations About to Begin

    14 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, announces that dredge CURRITUCK, based out of the Corps’ Wilmington District in North Carolina, is slated to arrive in Ocean City tomorrow, Friday July 15, to conduct maintenance dredging in Ocean City Inlet over the coming days. Dredge CURRITUCK will arrive in Ocean City Friday afternoon/evening and […]

  • Hilton Head Island Beachfill Plan Modified

    27 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Town of Hilton Head Island has once again revised its schedule for the completion of the remaining segments of the Beach Renourishment Project. The revision comes as a result of weather related delays encountered since September 9, including the passage of Tropical Storm Julia, and unexpected mechanical repairs and the planned relocation of the dredge […]

  • Den Oever Dike Reinforcement Contract for Van Oord

    10 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Hollands Noorderkwartier Regional Water Board (HHNK) has awarded the dike reinforcement project Den Oever in the north of the Netherlands to Van Oord. The work is set to begin in 2017 and will continue until 2019, Van Ord said in the announcement. The project, part of the Dutch Flood Protection Program, will encompass the design and the […]

  • Eni Resumes Goliat Flows

    6 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Oil company Eni Norge has resumed production from the Goliat field in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. The output from the field was stopped in December after a routine inspection of the offloading hose found some damage on segments of the hose. According to the company’s spokesperson the production of crude oil has resumed following completion of offloading […]

  • Spectrum Starts Seismic Acquisition in Uruguay

    25 November 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Spectrum has started a 3,600 km Multi-Client 2D seismic survey offshore Uruguay. The new acquisition program will infill Spectrum’s survey acquired in 2013 and cover open, ultra deep water acreage in the Oriental del Plata and Pelotas basins, anticipating the third licensing round in Uruguay expected to be held in 2015. The data is being collected by the […]

  • Siem Pride platform supplier to stay with Shell until 2025

    16 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Offshore and subsea shipping company Siem Offshore has agreed an extension of a current charter for one of its PSVs.

  • BP hires Normand Reach for walk-to-work project at Mungo field

    17 January 2018

    Oil firm BP will use the vessel Normand Reach on the Mungo field in the North Sea

  • Lundin picks up drilling permit for Barents Sea appraisal

    16 December 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin a drilling permit for an appraisal well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.  The NPD said on Friday that the wellbore 7120/1-5 will be drilled from the Ocean Rig-owned Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling program for wellbore 7120/1-5 relates to the drilling of an appraisal well […]

  • Fjellstrand puts pen to paper for Johan Sverdrup deal

    27 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Fjellstrand, a Norwegian company, has signed a contract with offshore living quarters modules supplier, Apply Leirvik for panel production which will be fitted to the Johan Sverdrup project residential module. Apply Leirvik will deliver one of the largest residential modules for the Johan Sverdrup platform. The module is being built in Kvaerner’s shipyard in Stord, […]

  • North Sea work for ‘Edda Fonn’

    23 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Reach Subsea has signed contracts for an ROV / subsea vessel Edda Fonn in the North Sea. According to the company, the contracts came as a result of a Joint Venture cooperation with MMT Sweden AB. The contracts for Edda Fonn are for approximately 60 days and the work scope is primarily seabed mapping, light construction and seabed […]

  • Lundin gets nod for North Sea wildcat well

    9 September 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit to drill well 16/1-25 S in the North Sea, offshore Norway. According to the NPD, the well 16/1-25 S will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling rig, south of the Edvard Grieg field, in production licence 338 C. Lundin is the […]

  • Searcher Seismic in Echidna shoot kickoff (Ireland)

    17 March 2015

    Searcher Seismic in cooperation with MAGE, has announced that acquisition of the Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey started today. Comprising of approximately 9,000 km of high quality, long-offset broadband 2D seismic data, the Echidna survey will be the first comprehensive well-tie survey covering the Atlantic Margin off western Ireland. Jan Gunnar Opsal, Norway Country […]

  • Rosneft ends contract for drillship West Navigator

    16 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (NADL) has received a notice of termination from Rosneft of the service order for the West Navigator drillship in connection with the framework agreement. The drillship was indicatively scheduled to start operations under its five-year contract with Rosneft during the summer of 2015, which would have required earlier mobilisation. NADL previously […]

  • Rocksource ASA to Drill in PL 506 S with Borgland Dolphin

    20 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Rocksource ASA has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 26/5-1 with the Borgland Dolphin semi submersible drilling rig. Well 26/5-1 will be drilled in production licence 506 S in the North Sea. Rocksource is the operator, and Petoro, Petrolia Norway and Valiant are the other licensees. The prospect being explored is called […]

  • Terra Nova FPSO to Return to Full Production by December End

    6 December 2012

    Terra Nova FPSO vessel operating offshore Newfoundland and Labrador is in the final stages of commissioning in preparation for start-up following planned maintenance, Suncor today announced. The FPSO is expected to return to full production rates around the end of December. Suncor Energy operates the Terra Nova field, which is located approximately 350 kilometres southeast […]

  • Fugro Starts Major Multi-client Survey Offshore Netherlands

    2 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Fugro Multi Client Services has started the NL-DEF-3d multi-client survey in the Netherlands. This major multi-client 3D survey, is designed to provide modern 3D long offset seismic data to boost exploration in the Dutch D, E and F blocks of the North Sea. The survey is covering over 6,000 sq.km extending from the UK until […]

  • Finnlines Again to Cut Jobs

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    North European liner-shipping company Finnlines Plc has started employer-employee co-operation negotiations concerning the crew serving the Ro-Ro/Passenger ferry MS Finnsailor, which could lead to 52 of the company’s sea personnel losing their jobs. The crew of Finnsailor might go down the same path as the crew of MS Finnhansa in September 2014, when the company decided to sell […]