Offshore News


Bibby Wins North Sea Decommissioning Contract

Apr 04, 2016

Subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry Bibby Offshore (BOUK) has secured a multimillion pound contract with a North Sea Operator, to deliver decommissioning operations in the Northern North Sea East Shetland Basin. The agreement…

Semco Signs Staffing Agreement with Statoil

Mar 31, 2016

Semco Maritime Norway informs it has been awarded a new framework agreement for supply of temporary staffing to Statoil ASA.The agreement applies to several types of specialists, both onshore and offshore, at Statoil’s installations and onshore facilities…

Wahlberg Headlines Film on Deepwater Horizon Tragedy

Mar 30, 2016

Nearly six years after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Hollywood takes its shot at recounting the tragedy with a film due this fall aiming to tell the story on the fatal blowout and its aftermath. The oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters in global history…

Seaspan Building 2nd OFSV

Mar 30, 2016

Seaspan Shipyards, announced today the start of construction on Seaspan’s second National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) ship, the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG)’s second Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel (OFSV). “Seaspan is now full-steam ahead…

New High-Yield Bond ETF will Exclude Energy Companies

Mar 29, 2016

BlackRock Inc is planning to unveil a new U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund that will invest in all areas of the junk-bond market except the tattered energy sector, the asset manager said in a regulatory filing this week. The first-of-its kind fund…

Damen’s Offers Solutions for Laid Up PSVs

Mar 29, 2016

Damen Shipyards Group has developed a committed response to the increasing number of laid up Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) resulting from the current predicament facing the offshore oil and gas industry. The Dutch company’s solution involves…

New Appointments for Lokring Northern Signals Growth

Mar 29, 2016

Lokring Northern (UK), provider of advanced fluid and gas transfer connectors, is celebrating significant expansion and growth with several new appointments within the company. A recent restructure to accommodate this continued growth has…

Bourbon Crew Abducted off of Nigeria Freed

Mar 25, 2016

Bourbon announced that the two crew members abducted on board the Bourbon Liberty 251 off the coast of Nigeria on February 23, have been released and are in good health. Bourbon, for reasons of confidentiality, made only a brief statement on the matter and would not offer further comment.

BOEM Proposes New Regulation for OCS

Mar 22, 2016

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today released proposed regulations that would provide additional clarity and certainty for its Marine Minerals Program regarding negotiated, non-competitive leases for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) resources such as sand…

Offshore Achievement Award for TWMA

Mar 20, 2016

Global integrated drilling waste management and environmental services firm, TWMA, has won the Export Achievement Award at this year’s Offshore Achievement Awards.The award recognises the company’s significant business growth resulting from…

BSEE, NASA to Examine Offshore Risks

Mar 19, 2016

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have announced a five-year agreement allowing BSEE to capitalize on the best risk management approaches from the aeronautics…

Skangas Aquires Risavika LNG

Mar 19, 2016

Skangas, a unit of Gasum, signed a deal with Lyse Group to acquire the Risavika liquefied natural gas (LNG)production facility in Norway.  The acquisition of the Risavika production plant will strengthen Skangas’s presence in the downstream…

N-Sea Celebrates Safety Innovation Award

Mar 18, 2016

Subsea IMR provider, N-Sea, has won the Safety Innovations award at this year’s SPE Aberdeen Offshore Achievement Awards. Winners were announced at an awards ceremony last night at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC). The…

Cosco Bags Self-Elevating Workover Unit Contract

Mar 17, 2016

Cosco (Nantong) Shipyard, a subsidiary Cosco Shipyard Group Co, has won an order to build one self-elevating workover unit for an Asian shipowner, with an option for one more similar unit. Cosco Nantong and the ship owner have agreed to keep the contract price confidential…

Statoil Exercises Ocean Installer Option at Vigdis

Mar 17, 2016

Ocean Installer will undertake flexible jumper replacement operations for Norwegian operator Statoil at the Vigdis field, says a statement from the company. Ocean Installer  will see it perform subsea work. The company said the option falls…

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