Offshore

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today named former Vice Admiral Brian Salerno as the Director of the Bureau of Safety and

The Rowan XL III is busy at work today drilling the relief well at South Timbalier 220 and we are hearing through our network that the relief well being

Maersk Drilling created this video last year as a recruitment and marketing tool. Normally we’re not super interested in posting promo videos, but I have

The world’s first Modular Capture Vessel (MCV) was delivered today from Drydocks World to Singapore-based AET. Named Eagle Texas, the vessel was

Ulstein announced today that the Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipments Co., Ltd. (aka ROC yard) located in Jiangsu Province, China, has been

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) — McDermott International Inc. is so beaten down that buyers can snap up the offshore oilfield- construction company and its fleet at

An anonymous gCaptain contributor sent us images of the heavy lift semi-submersible Saipem 7000 lifting the 11,500 ton accommodation block atop the

A 50/50 joint venture between DOF Subsea and Technip has just won a USD $3.4 billion contract from Petrobras for the construction and operation of four new

SeaBird Exploration’s 2D Long Offset Seismic Vessel, Northern Explorer has just been awarded a 150 day, USD $10.5 million contract in the Mediterranean

IHC Merwede announced today over €1 billion in new orders have just been received for the design, engineering and construction of six, 550-ton pipelay

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, ConocoPhillips and Statoil ASA are among oil explorers investing at least $3 billion in wells off Angola next year in the

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announced today that their Type-0 heavy lift vessel, the Dockwise Vanguard has just finished a contract supporting the repair

Petrobras has extended their contract for DOF Subsea’s Skandi Vitória for an additional two years beginning in September 2013. The vessel is owned

By Andrew Callus LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – A strange-looking vessel inspired by the exotic sucker fish is due to leave Norway for Brazil’s giant

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Nippon Yusen K.K., Japan’s largest shipping line, said development of deepsea Brazilian oil and Australian gas will boost

Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd., the world’s largest offshore rig contractor, posted a second-quarter profit after running its vessels more

While operating for Total E&P offshore Angola, the 1999-built Ensco DS1 drillship was running their blowout preventer (BOP) to the wellhead in 4,318 feet

An anonymous gCaptain source gave us the second-hand run down of what transpired on board the Hercules 265 when at 0845 on July 23, well A-3 blew out at

Houston-based drilling contractor Rowan (NYSE: RDC) had quite a bit to celebrate today. In their Q2 earnings report, they announced a $32 million (63 percent)

MODEC has announced that they have been awarded a 20-year FPSO charter contract by Tullow Ghana at their TEN Field located in the Deepwater Tano Contract Area,