New deepwater oil discovery for Petrobras
AUGUST 8, 2013—Brazil’s Petrobras has confirmed an oil discovery in a well 303 km offshore of the state of São Paulo in water depths of 2,158 meters. The deepwater discovery was at
AUGUST 8, 2013—Brazil’s Petrobras has confirmed an oil discovery in a well 303 km offshore of the state of São Paulo in water depths of 2,158 meters. The deepwater discovery was at
AUGUST 5, 2013—Australia’s Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd has secured a contract to build a high-speed 70-meter-long crew support vessel for offshore oil operations in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan. The contract
AUGUST 2, 2013—The Harkand Group recently christened its newest ROV offshore support vessel, the Harkand Harmony, at a christening ceremony in a Singapore. Sophie Mottais-Trouve, the wife of Harkand’s Vice President of Commercial
JULY 31, 2013 — John Fredriksen’s Seadrill Limited has entered into new contracts for the construction of two high specification jack-up drilling rigs at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co., Ltd. (DSIC Offshore)
JULY 23, 2013 — Jon Holvik has taken over as President of the Houston headquartered Kongsberg Maritime Inc.; the U.S. subsidiary of the Norwegian headquartered supplier of dynamic positioning (DP) and automation/control
JULY 22, 2013 — Malcolm Webb, Chief Executive of trade association Oil & Gas UK, has officially opened the new Aberdeen, Scotland, offices of oil and gas consultancy Magma Products. Magma MD
JULY 18, 2013 — Chow Yew Yuen, 58, who returned to Singapore in 2011 after being based in the U.S. for 18 years, is to become COO of Keppel Offshore & Marine
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) are jointly sponsoring a two-day workshop on July 24-25 in Arlington, VA, that will examine a broad range of
JUNE 12, 2013 — Norway’s Atlantic Offshore has ordered a new vessel valued at EUR 25 million from Spanish shipbuilder Zamakona Yards in Bilbao. The ship is the ninth newbuilding on order
JUNE 3, 2013 — Singapore’s Keppel FELS Limited has delivered its first KFELS Super A Class jack-up rig to Discovery Offshore S.A., which is managed by NASDAQ-listed Hercules Offshore, Inc. Named Discovery