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Thursday, May 1, 2014
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News

Songa Trym Finds Oil South of Fram

The Statoil-contracted drilling rig Songa Trym encountered a minor oil discovery while drilling wildcat well 35/11-17 located approximately 1 kilometer south

May 1, 2014
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
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Offshore

McDermott Wraps Up Deepwater Pipelay Job Off Malaysia

McDermott International announced that the first installation of a rigid reel-lay pipe-in-pipe in the Asia-Pacific region has just been completed at Murphy

April 29, 2014
Total Views: 87

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News

Oil and Gas Explorers Converge Offshore Morocco

By Aziz El Yaakoubi MARRAKESH, Morocco, April 29 (Reuters) – Morocco will drill 30 oil and gas wells in 2014 as part of the North African kingdom’s

April 29, 2014
Total Views: 86

Monday, April 28, 2014
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News

Keppel FELS and Workfox Discuss Plans for New Jack-Up Rig Design

As shallow-water fields around the world are reaching the end of their production lives, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, the need for the

April 28, 2014
Total Views: 147

News

Swiber Incorporates New Mexico-Based Subsidiary

Swiber International Pte. Ltd. and Swiber Offshore Construction Pte. Ltd. announced on 25 April the incorporation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary in Mexico,

April 28, 2014
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Friday, April 25, 2014
British Antarctic Survey Unveils Plans for New Polar Exploration Ship
News

British Antarctic Survey Unveils Plans for New Polar Exploration Ship

The UK government announced plans today for the building of a new £200 million polar research vessel for the NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) and

April 25, 2014
Total Views: 233

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News

Songa Sheds SE Asia Assets

Songa Offshore announced today they have sold the semisubmersible drilling rigs Songa Mercur and Songa Venus to Singapore-based Opus Offshore Group.  The

April 25, 2014
Total Views: 66

Thursday, April 24, 2014
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News

SPOTD: Towing the COSL Seeker

Captain Serge Prakhov from the Terasea Eagle, a 2013-built, 203 ton bollard pull tugboat operating in the Java Sea, sends us the following image today: His

April 24, 2014
Total Views: 146

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News

Technip Surges After Winning Major Offshore Contracts

By Tara Patel April 24 (Bloomberg) — Technip SA, Europe’s largest oilfield-services provider by market value, rose to the highest level in almost six

April 24, 2014
Total Views: 39

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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Multimedia

What it’s Like to Work on Board a Modern Drillship in the Gulf of Mexico

  The George Bush Library and ENSCO put together the following video going into detail the day-to-day operations on board the ENSCO DS-5, an

April 23, 2014
Total Views: 674

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News

BP Orders High Spec Subsea Construction Vessel for Caspian Sea

Marine Technology Development, the ship design and development arm of Keppel Offshore & Marine has won an order today to design a 5,000 dwt subsea

April 23, 2014
Total Views: 110

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News

HitecVision to Divide Reef Subsea

Reef Subsea, the 2010 joint venture between Norwegian private equity investment firm HitecVision and GC Rieber Shipping is set to be reorganized. In a deal

April 23, 2014
Total Views: 44

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News

CMM Receives First Damen-Built PSV 3300

CMM (Compagnie Maritime Monégasque S.A.M.), the Monaco-based offshore supply vessel owner, accepted delivery last week of their first Damen-designed and

April 23, 2014
Total Views: 206

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Unloading from Gazprom’s Prirazlomnoye [IMAGES]
News

Unloading from Gazprom’s Prirazlomnoye [IMAGES]

The super ice-class (Arc6) double- hulled tanker Mikhail Ulyanov arrived last week at the Prirazlomnaye arctic production platform to take on a 70,000 ton

April 22, 2014
Total Views: 55

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News

Farstad Gains 13 New OSV Charter Contracts

Farstad Shipping, the Norway-based OSV operator announced 13 of their company’s vessels gained a total of NOK 525 million in new charter contracts today.

April 22, 2014
Total Views: 67

Monday, April 21, 2014
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News

SPOTD: Easter at Ekofisk

Christoffer Marstone, 1st Officer on board the Well Stimulation Vessel “Island Commander” sends us this image taken yesterday at the Ekofisk Oil

April 21, 2014
Total Views: 73

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News

COSCO Wins Ulstein PX121 Order

COSCO Corporation announced today the signing of contracts with a undisclosed shipowners for four emergency response – field support vessels (FSVs) and a

April 21, 2014
Total Views: 84

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News

Arctech Helsinki Wins Icebreaking PSV Order from Sovcomflot

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard announced today the signing of a EUR 100 million order with Sovcomflot for a new icebreaking platform supply vessel (PSV). Upon

April 21, 2014
Total Views: 68

Sunday, April 20, 2014
Four Years Since Deepwater Horizon, Risk is Still Everywhere
Incidents

Four Years Since Deepwater Horizon, Risk is Still Everywhere

“Rob are you ok?” Four years ago today, a friend of mine woke me up with those words. He was referring to the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon which

April 20, 2014
Total Views: 48

Friday, April 18, 2014
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Offshore

SPOTD: CGG’s Geo Coral Drags a Full Spread

The survey vessel MV Geo Coral is one of four C-class seismic survey vessels in CGG Veritas’ global fleet and was contracted by BG Group to acquire

April 18, 2014
Total Views: 298