Offshore

The Statoil-contracted rig Transocean Spitsbergen has made a gas discovery while drilling at production license 614 approximately 300 kilometers north of

Wärtsilä signed their second design contract today with Tidewater subsidiary Troms Offshore Supply for their new VS 4530 series of arctic multi-purpose

Hornbeck Offshore’s 240-class offshore supply vessel HOS Bluewater and the 265-class HOS Brimstone were moored at Port Fourchon last night when an Edison

Maersk Drilling took delivery today of their second XL Enhanced harsh environment jack-up rig from Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. This rig and its sister

Shanghai-headquartered Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has announced their entry into the Mexican offshore market today with the signing of a three-ship OSV

DOF’s subsidiary Norskan Offshore Ltda. has been awarded a 4 year contract with Petrobras for the platform supply vessel Skandi Yare. The new contract

EMAS AMC, the subsea services arm of offshore contractor Ezra Holdings Inc. has won upwards of $110 million in new contracts according to a statement today by

Houston-headquartered Northern Offshore, Ltd. (Oslo: NOF.OL) announced at the end of July it had secured a 2 ½ year contract with Rosneft, in conjunction with

The crew boat suffered a slight mishap last week when it ran straight into an offshore platform in the Gulf of

Rosatom, Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation announced last week that its subsidiary Rusatom Overseas signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CNNC

Hornbeck Offshore (NYSE: HOS), a Gulf of Mexico-focused operator of offshore support vessels reported a strong second quarter today with a 25 percent jump in

Karl-Johan Bakken, Chief Executive of Ålesund-based Farstad Shipping (OSE: FAR), got his start in the maritime industry in the mid 1980s as a naval architect

A Norwegian drill rig owner is supplying Russian oil giant OAO Rosneft and Exxon Mobil Corp. with the kind of high technology that will be barred under U.S.

The wind farm installation vessel Innovation, owned by the HOCHTIEF subsidiary HGO InfraSea Solutions is currently installing rotor stars offshore Germany at

Platform drilling firm Archer Limited announced today that it will continue drilling operations at the Greater Ekofisk area for at least another five years as

Ireland finally found treasure at the end of the rainbow, or so it seemed in

Saipem announced today the award of four new offshore drilling contracts worth $540 million for clients operating offshore Indonesia, Nigeria, the Arabian

Tor Olav Trøim, the financial wizard that helped enable the many successes of Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen announced today his intentions to step

40 days after leaving Samsung Heavy Industries, the 9,750-ton topsides structure for the Valemon platform offshore Norway was suspended in the air below the

Bergen-based NorYards BMV (previously Bergen Group) held a naming ceremony for the 142 meter offshore construction vessel North Sea Atlantic.  In