Oil & Gas

JULY 25, 2012 —John Fredriksen controlled Seadrill says it has received a commitment from a major oil company for new contracts on newbuild drillships West Auriga, West Vela and a third drilling unit currently in operation, which will be named later. The combined three rig package involves 19 rig years and a potential con ...

JULY 25, 2012 — Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services has received a contract from Total E&P Angola for providing subsea intervention services from the oil services company's purpose-built intervention vessel, Skandi Aker. The agreement marks a breakthrough for vessel-based intervention services in deep and ultra-deep w ...

JULY 25, 2012 — Wärtsilä has booked ship design orders from shipbuilder Kleven Maritime for three of the new platform supply vessels being built to support Statoil operations on the Norwegian continental shelf. The vessels include a 92.5 m long VS4412 DF PSV LNG-fueled PSV (pictured at left) for Remøy Shipping. It will operate o ...

JULY 24, 2012 — GulfMark Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: GLF) is adding four newbuild Jones Act platform supply vessels to its U.S. flag fleet. The company's latest 10Q filing with the SEC lists two 286 ft, 8,160 bhp, ...

JULY 23, 2012 —The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released details of the first offshore sale under the Administration's new Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program) Proposed Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 229, scheduled to take place in New Orleans ...

JULY 23, 2012—Norway's Atlantic Offshore AS has ordered two new North Sea standby vessels (Field Support Vessels) , worth €50 million for delivery in 2014 from Zamakona Shipyards in Bilbao, Spain. The order includes options for a further two vessels. Atlantic Offshore says the vessels are linked to contracts it has entered in ...

JULY 23, 2012 — Singapore's Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) has secured three conversion contracts with an initial combined value of S$103 million (about US$82 million). The contracts are from PTSC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Perenco Group (Perenco) and BC Petroleum Sdn Bhd (BC Petroleum). The cont ...

JULY 20, 2012 — Petrobras subsidiaries Tupi BV and Guará BV, together with consortium members BG Group, Petrogal Brasil, and Repsol Sinopec Brasil SA, have given the go-ahead for ten contracts totaling US$4.5 billion for the construction of the first six topside modules (processing plant, utilities and living quarters) for eig ...