Alan Thorpe examines the latest offshore construction vessels to enter the market. The two Island 云顶赌场老虎机 vessels in Lloyd Werft. Photo by Alan Thorpe. This Spring, Norway鈥檚鈥
Dubai-based Dragon Oil is in negotiations with Dublin-based Petroceltic International to consider an all-cash offer for the issued share capital of Petroceltic. Petroceltic's GSP Prometeu drilling rig operating off of Romania鈥
Fugro took delivery of the second of the three Fugro offshore coastal survey vessels (FOCSV), being built in Romania at Damen鈥檚 Galati shipyard. Fugro Pioneer Image: Damen The Fugro Pioneer is a compact鈥
Mex Gas Supply (MGS), a subsidiary of Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has a formed an alliance with Switzerland鈥檚 Mercuria, financed by JPMorgan.to import US-sourced natural gas. On 8 August, Geneva-based Mercuria Energy Trading鈥
Drilling has started at the Domino-2 appraisal well in the deepwater sector of the Neptun Block offshore Romania in the Black Sea, says OMV Petrom. OMV Petrom is a partner on the block with ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Romania鈥
OMV Petrom has made an oil discovery in an exploration well drilled in the Istria XVIII offshore Perimeter (shallow water) in the Romanian Black Sea. Marina 1 was drilled 60km offshore, to a depth of about 2150m below the seabed in about 50m water depth鈥
Van Oord鈥檚 new DP2 cable-laying vessel Nexus was successfully launched at Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania on 30 June 2014. The 123m multipurpose vessel will be deployed installing electrical cables for offshore wind farms. With a beam of almost 28m and a dynamic positioning system鈥
Emerson Process Management has opened a flow loop facility for Roxar technologies in Stavanger. The new facility will increase production capacity and drive future developments in multiphase meters, enabling oil and gas operators to access鈥
GSP Saturn has arrived for exploration drilling at the Gazpromneft Sakhalin-operated Dolginskoye field, located in the Arctic shelf of the Pechora Sea. The Gazprom Neft subsidiary announced 21 January its plans to drill an exploration well and take core samples at the field鈥
Netherlands-based Vroon 云顶赌场老虎机 Services started operations in Turkey this week. The company鈥檚 anchor-handling tug-supply (AHTS) vessels, VOS Tethys and VOS Athos, are currently assisting in positioning operations for the jack-up drilling rig GSP Prometeu鈥
Vard Holdings Limited has secured a contract for the design and construction of one offshore construction and anchor handling vessel (OCV) for Rem 云顶赌场老虎机. The contract value is approximately NOK800 million (US$1.3 million). The vessel will be the VARD 2 06 design (pictured)鈥
Rolls-Royce has secured a £35 million (US$58.5 million) contract to design and equip a large offshore support vessel for Norwegian ship owner Island 云顶赌场老虎机. The vessel, Island Victory, is a UT 797 CX design, featuring a 250 ton offshore crane鈥
UK-based Sterling Resources completed 800sq km of new 3D seismic in the Romanian Black Sea. The company's 1Q result, issued yesterday, discusses three major milestones in derisking its Romanian assets: - In early February, Sterling鈥
Norway's Vard Holdings Ltd. has secured a new contract with Island 云顶赌场老虎机 to build an offshore support vessel based on a Rolls-Royce design. The contract value is more than NOK1 billion (US$167.7 million). Delivery is scheduled from Vard Brevik in Norway in 2Q 2016鈥
Drilling rig giant Transocean says it has picked up new contracts worth about US$953 million since 17 April. Giving its fleet update report, the firm said other highlights include: Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 drillship - Awarded a three year contract offshore Brazil at a dayrate of $440鈥
