Oil & Gas

JANUARY 29, 2013 — Singapore-listed Mermaid Maritime says that its business units Mermaid Offshore Services Limited and Subtech Qatar Diving and Marine Services LLC have been awarded a series of contracts from existing clients for the provision of subsea services to support offshore oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Thaila ...

JANUARY 29, 2013 — IHC Merwede has introduced a new series of Packhorse offshore support vessels that will initially be built through the cooperation agreement established between IHC Merwede and Jaya Holdings. The range of vessels consists of: the IHC Packhorse which has been positioned as a platform support vessel (PSV ...

JANUARY 28, 2013 — Launched this month at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania, the World Diamond is the first of a series of six fully equipped Platform Supply Vessels for Norwegian offshore company World Wide Supply. It has been built to Damen's new PSV 3300 design. The World Diamond and the other five vessels in the series ...

JANUARY 28, 2013 — Cyprus based Dynamic Offshore Drilling will deploy its first rig next month in the Western offshore part of India under a five year contract for Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC). The $205-million rig KFELS B Class jack-up rig, named Dynamic Vision on Saturday, is set to be delivered from ...

JANUARY 21, 2013 — Island Offshore, in which the Chouest and Ulstein families are partners, last week reported that two of its platform supply vessels have been awarded five year contracts. The UT 776 design Island Chieftain has been awarded a five years contract with BP Norge AS (BPN). The vessel has been a part of BPN’s pool ...

JANUARY 18, 2013 — Singapore based Miclyn Express Offshore reports that its Thai Joint Venture, Uniwise Offshore, has placed an order for two 90 t bollard pull AHTSs. The vessels will be constructed over an 18 month period at an undisclosed external shipyard on what MEO calls "attractive payment terms." The vessels are targeted for lo ...

JANUARY 18, 2013 — Southampto, U.K., based BMT Nigel Gee has won a design contract with Penguin Shipyard International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-based crew boat builder and operator, Penguin International Limited, for the design of two 25 m monohull fast ...

JANUARY 16, 2012 — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that he will return to his home state of Colorado, having fulfilled his promise to President Obama to serve four years as Secretary. Secretary Salazar has informed President Obama that he intends to leave the Department by the end of March. One of the t ...