Odfjell Drilling has taken delivery of Deepsea Aberdeen semisubmersible drilling rig from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. Deepsea Aberdeen, pictured, is a sixth generation ultra deepwater and harsh environment semisubmersible of enhanced GVA 7500 design…
Watch as Teekay Corp.’s largest project, the FPSO Petrojarl Knarr, sails away from South Korea to Norway. It took three Fairmount Marine tugs 61 days to tow the FPSO off Norway where it is deployed in the Knarr oil and gas field…
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its second ultra harsh environment jackup, XLE-2, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. The rig will start its mobilization to the Norwegian North Sea in approximately two weeks, where it will…
The naming ceremony of the semisubmersible rig Deepsea Aberdeen was celebrated at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea 25 June. The sea trials will roll out from July-August. Odfjell Drilling…
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its first ultra harsh environment jackup, Maersk Intrepid, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore on time. Maersk Intrepid will start its mobilization to the Norwegian North Sea in about two weeks…
Maersk Drilling has named its latest ultra harsh environment jackup drilling rig, the Maersk Intrepid, ahead of its first deployment development drilling on the Martin Linge field offshore Norway. Maersk Intrepid is the first…
Ensco plc has taken delivery of ENSCO 121, the second of four ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs in its ENSCO 120 Series. The rig is contracted to work in the North Sea beginning in Q2 2014 at a day rate of approximately $230,000…
Maersk Drilling has ordered potentially up to three new ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs, underpinned by a five year contract with BP for plugging and abandonment work on the Norwegian North Sea Valhall field. The first new rig, an XL Enhanced 4…
Ensco plc has taken delivery of ENSCO 120, the first in its series of three ultra-premium, harsh-environment jackup rigs. The rig is contracted to work for Nexen in the North Sea beginning in the 4Q 2013 at a day rate of about US$230,000 plus cost adjustments…
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment introduced a new dual-approved thermal lifejacket with broad appeal for the offshore and commercial shipping industries operating in harsh, cold environments. The PV9720 has been tested and approved according…
OceanTools Ltd. completed a redesign of their MA500 Precision Altimeter. DSP electronics combined with frequency swept CHIRP technology are housed in a hard anodized aluminium housing rated to 3000m as standard. The MA500 uses a new composite…
Tidewater Inc. has entered into an agreement with HitecVision to purchase Troms Offshore Supply AS for about $395 million. The acquisition will expand Tidewater’s global footprint into the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and supplement…
Maersk Drilling received a contract extension for its newbuild ultra-harsh environment jackup XL Enhanced 2 from Det norske oljeselskap ASA. The two-year extension allows the jackup to service the Ivar Aasen project for a total of five years…
Subsea 7, a global leader in seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services, will be exhibiting its innovative technologies and why it is the technology partner of choice for many in the offshore energy industry, at OTC 2013 from 6 to 9 May in Houston…
VAM USA expanded its Houston-based Connection Technology Center to 90,000 sq ft, doubling its R&D capacity. The facility conducts harsh-environment testing of premium connections for shale applications and deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
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