North Atlantic Drilling Ltd., in which Seadrill has a 75 percent ownership, has taken delivery of the new harsh environment jack-up drilling rig, West Elara from Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard in Singapore.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today issued conditional approval for a revised Exploration Plan (EP) submitted by Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell). The plan outlines Shell’s proposal to
Rolls-Royce has won a GBP 50 million (about US$ 82 million) contract to design and equip two anchor handling vessels for Norwegian company Farstad Shipping. The vessels have been ordered from STX
Oslo-listed Prospector Offshore Drilling S.A. (PROS) reports that it has entered into a turnkey contract for the construction of two additional high specification harsh environment F&G JU-2000E jack-up drilling rigs at the
Two 92.4 m platform supply vessels ordered from Fincantieri Marine Group’s Bay Shipbuilding by Tidewater Marine (see earlier report) are to have Thrustmaster of Texas Inc. propulsion systems. The main propulsion system
Sweden’s Rederi AB TransAtlantic has taken delivery of Magne Viking, the third in a series of four newbuild AHTS vessels from the Astilleros Zamakona S.A shipyard in Spain. The vessel will be
The Ungundja, the first of 10 DP-3, 100-meter GPA 696 IMR (Inspection, Maintenance & Repair) vessels, was recently delivered by China’s Zheijang Shipyard, part of the Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, to Paris-based Bourbon
Malaysia-based OSV shipbuilder Nam Cheong has sold three of nine 5,150 bhp Anchor Handling Towing Supply vessels that are currently being built for stock. Contracts worth a total $38 million have been
Sharjah, UAE, headquartered Gulmar Offshore Limited reports that its diving/ROV support vessel Gulmar Atlantis is now on its maiden voyage from Singapore to start a minimum 6 months contract in Brazil. “Brazil
State-owned oil company Petrobras said its oil and natural gas output in Brazil for June jumped 4% ias compared with a year earlier. Production was 2,407,366 barrels of oil equivalent per day