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Thursday, October 16, 2014
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Maersk Orders Half Dozen Anchor Handlers from Kleven

With options for four more, Maersk Supply Service has signed a new-building contract with Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven Maritime for six, 95 meter Anchor

October 16, 2014
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Statoil CEO Helge Lund Resigns

After 10 years at the helm of Statoil, the $77 billion Norwegian multinational oil and gas company, Helge Lund has resigned today with immediate effect. He

October 15, 2014
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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Lundin Finds Oil and Gas in the Barents, Transocean Arctic Spuds-In

Utilizing the Island Innovator semi-submersible drilling rig, Lundin Norway AS announced today a significant oil and gas discovery in the southern part of the

October 14, 2014
Total Views: 28

Discoverer Americas Drillship Makes Big Gas Discovery Offshore Tanzania
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Discoverer Americas Drillship Makes Big Gas Discovery Offshore Tanzania

Transocean’s 6th generation drillship Discoverer Americas drilled into a huge gas reservoir offshore Tanzania recently according to a statement today by

October 14, 2014
Total Views: 216

Monday, October 13, 2014
Giant ‘Pieter Schelte’ Caught on Camera [VIDEO]
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Giant ‘Pieter Schelte’ Caught on Camera [VIDEO]

Some new video posted to Youtube gives us a rare look at the massive Pieter Schelte, a unique catamaran-like vessel that will soon be used to remove

October 13, 2014
Total Views: 303

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Panoro Energy Gains Initial Approvals For FPSO Development Offshore Gabon

Panoro Energy ASA announced today that Gabon’s Direction Général de Hydrocarbures (DGH) has approved their plan to develop the Ruche cluster of

October 13, 2014
Total Views: 68

Sunday, October 12, 2014
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Teekay’s Navion Norvegia to be Converted for Libra FPSO Project

By late 2016, Teekay Offshore’s shuttle tanker Navion Norvegia will he installed offshore Brazil after an extensive yard period at Jurong Shipyard in

October 12, 2014
Total Views: 114

Thursday, October 9, 2014
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EMAS Finalizes $300 Million in Subsea Contracts with Noble

Utilizing their flagship vessel Lewek Constellation along with four other vessels, subsea contractor EMAS AMC has finalized a series of three contracts with

October 9, 2014
Total Views: 49

Mexico’s Alemans Plans Investment for Controlling Stake of Oceanografia
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Mexico’s Alemans Plans Investment for Controlling Stake of Oceanografia

Mexico’s Aleman family, owner of the airline Interjet, said it reached agreement to make a capital injection into bankrupt oil-services provider Oceanografia

October 9, 2014
Total Views: 80

Monday, October 6, 2014
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First Walk-to-Work Vessel Launched at Niestern Sander

Dutch shipbuilder Niestern Sander has launched the world’s first ‘Walk-to-Work’ vessel today which upon delivery in 2015, will support the

October 6, 2014
Total Views: 175

Friday, October 3, 2014
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BP Seeks Review of ‘Gross Negligence’ Ruling

By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc asked the U.S. judge in charge of thousands of oil-spill damage lawsuits

October 3, 2014
Total Views: 17

Thursday, October 2, 2014
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BG Group and Ophir Energy Find Over 17 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas Offshore Tanzania

The Deepsea Metro 1, under contract to BG Group and Ophir Energy, tapped into a reservoir containing an estimated 1.03 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas

October 2, 2014
Total Views: 81

Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Watch: Freefall Lifeboat Drop Test… The Correct Way
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Watch: Freefall Lifeboat Drop Test… The Correct Way

We recently saw the wrong way to conduct a lifeboat drop test, now here’s a look at the correct way. The freefall test was performed using a Harding

October 1, 2014
Total Views: 138

Monday, September 29, 2014
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Nam Cheong to Invest In Indonesian OSV Charterer

Malaysia’s largest builder of offshore support vessels, Nam Cheong Limited announced today a planned $30.7 million investment into PT Pelayaran Nasional

September 29, 2014
Total Views: 101

Saturday, September 27, 2014
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Rosneft Announces “Victory” in the Kara Sea, Huge Discovery Made

By Rob Almeida and Shubin Aleksey Rosneft estimates 338 billion cubic meters of gas and 100 million tons of oil have just been found in a new field in

September 27, 2014
Total Views: 42

Friday, September 26, 2014
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Statoil Makes Gas Discovery in Barents Sea

Under contract to Statoil, the Transocean Spitsbergen discovered a 15 meter column of gas while drilling in the Pingvin Prospect NNW of the Johan Castberg

September 26, 2014
Total Views: 32

Thursday, September 25, 2014
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Siem Industries Takes Over FSG Shipyard

German Shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) announced today it has been taken over by Norwegian firm Siem Industries, a company with extremely

September 25, 2014
Total Views: 91

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MacGregor Gains Deck Machinery Orders for Six Chinese-Built OSVs

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a series of deck equipment orders from Chinese shipbuilder Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd. The winches and deck

September 25, 2014
Total Views: 38

Monday, September 22, 2014
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Nordic Yards Launches Pair of Multi-Purpose Icebreakers for Russia’s Ministry of Transport

By Shubin Aleksey Andreyevich, On 21 September 2014, Nordic Yards launched two 7MW multipurpose salvage/icebreaker vessels, the Bering Strait and Murman from

September 22, 2014
Total Views: 209

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Norway to Outline Johan Sverdrup Power Plan in Early 2015

The Norwegian government said on Monday it would outline plans in spring next year regarding the electrification of the $20 billion Johan Sverdrup oil field in

September 22, 2014
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