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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
JULY 19, 2012 — Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has taken delivery of VOS Athos from Fujian Southeast Shipyard. The vessel is the first of 59-metre “A class” anchor handling tug supply vessels
JULY 19, 2012—Salaries are on the rise in the growing offshore energy sector, putting wage pressure on other industry segments such as classification societies and port state administrations, employment consultant Spinnaker Consulting