Aug 13, 2008
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has won the contract to build the seventh ENSCO 8500 Series deepwater semisubmersible (semi) worth $560m. This sum includes equipment specified by the owner.
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Aug 06, 2008
Veripos’ Houston-based Americas Region has been awarded major offshore positioning contracts by DOF Subsea, LSP, Tidewater and WesternGeco for vessels operating in Brazilian,
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Aug 05, 2008
StatoilHydro has recently awarded contracts for towed multi-streamer surveys for 2009, totalling NOK 1200 million.
The contracts, covering surveys on the Norwegian Continental Shelf,
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Aug 01, 2008
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. reportedly won a $755 million deal to build a drill ship, according to Yonhap. The deal from an U.S. customer calls
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Jul 30, 2008
NEW ORLEANS — Flying in National Guard Black Hawk helicopters 500 feet above the bayous and marshes along the Mississippi River delta last week, Louisiana
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Jul 29, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported that John McCain again issued a plea for more offshore oil drilling, suggesting it would not take long for consumers to see the benefits.
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Jul 23, 2008
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, found traces of oil and gas in an offshore well in the Espirito Santo Basin.
Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based company is known,
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Jul 16, 2008
Golar LNG announced that it has agreed to partner with Bluewater Energy Services B.V in bidding for an offshore LNG FSRU opportunity with South Africa's national oil company, PetroSA.
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Jul 16, 2008
Nippon Steel Engineering Co. is bolstering its operating structure in a bid to win contracts spanning everything from design to construction of crude oil
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Jul 16, 2008
Reliance Industries and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation may face an imminent shut down of offshore oil and gas operations after the Shipping Ministry issued new
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Jul 07, 2008
During the drilling of exploration well 7226/2-1 in the Barents Sea StatoilHydro, the operator of the licence, has struck gas in a prospect named Ververis. The
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Jul 07, 2008
Keppel FELS Limited was contracted to build its proprietary DSS 38 deepwater semisubmersible (semi) rig for Scorpion Offshore Ltd (Scorpion).
The contract with
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Jul 03, 2008
After the inauguration of the new drilling riser manufacturing facility in Rio das Ostras, Aker Solutions has signed an agreement with Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.
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Jul 02, 2008
Transocean Inc. announced that its deepwater moored semisubmersible Transocean Marianas, capable of drilling in water depths up to 7,000 feet, has been awarded
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Jul 02, 2008
Dockwise Ltd. said that the Perdido Truss Spar was safely delivered by the semi-submersible vessel Mighty Servant 1 on Friday 27 June 2008. The Spar was skidded
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Jul 01, 2008
India will award drilling rights to domestic and overseas explorers for a record 57 oil and gas areas as it seeks to boost crude production and lower dependence on imported fuel.
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Jun 25, 2008
Norway's oil industry called on the new Petroleum and Energy Minister Terje Riis-Johansen to open up quickly more area for offshore oil and gas exploration.
With
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Jun 24, 2008
Production on the Oseberg field center, Oseberg South, Oseberg East and Tune has resumed after the small fire in a switchboard room on the Field Centre on June 15.
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Jun 24, 2008
Keppel Shipyard is on track to delivering FPSO Lewek Arunothai to EOC Limited (EOC) for a South East Asian client.
The 725,000 bbls storage FPSO was named at a ceremony on June 21.
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Jun 23, 2008
An attack by armed separatists in speedboats has forced Royal Dutch Shell to shut down its biggest offshore oil production unit in Nigeria, removing a tenth of the Opec state's output.
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