Image: TIP OSLO/Carisbrooke Shipping Carisbrooke Shipping recently welcomed eight modern, high quality 8000 dead weight tonne general cargo vessels to their commercially-managed fleet…
Viking Supply Ships has extended the contract with Eni Norge for the Ice-classed AHTS Njord Viking. The vessel is now firm with Eni Norge till 31st December 2016. Further, the charterer has the option to extend the charter period with 2 x 6 months…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is naming Shell as being ultimately responsible for the grounding of the Kulluk ice-class mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) in 2012 offshore Alaska, due to the company’s inadequate assessment of the risk for the towing…
GC Rieber Shipping has taken delivery of its seismic new-build Polar Empress, from Kleven-owned Myklebust Verft. The vessel is chartered on a five-year contract to Dolphin Geophysical. Polar Empress is a high-capacity 3D seismic vessel with ice-class 1A…
Facilities service provider Petrofac has been awarded a contract to support maintenance management system (MMS) implementation for Bumi Armada’s floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO), the Armada Kraken. The vessel, a converted Suezmax ice-class tanker…
North Sea operator EnQuest says its North Sea projects - Alma/Galia and Kraken are both on track, with the first due to start up mid-2015 and the second in 2017. The firm is currently preparing to start pulling in risers on the EnQuest Producer floating production…
Ezra Holdings’ subsea services division, EMAS AMC, has won multiple new awards from various oil and energy companies worth approximately US$55 million. The Lewek Constellation. From EMAS. The scope of work includes project support…
On 1 March, EMAS AMC officially christened and named its flagship, the Lewek Constellation, prior to her departure to the Gulf of Mexico to start work for Noble Energy. EMAS AMC’s Lewek Constellation…
EMAS AMC officially christened and named its flagship the Lewek Constellation on Sunday (1 March) prior to her departure to the Gulf of Mexico to start work for Noble Energy. The Lewek Constellation, an ice-classed, multi-lay offshore…
EMAS AMC's flagship ice-classed, DP3 multi-lay construction vessel Lewek Constellation is on track to turn fully operational by March 2015. The vessel, which has heavy lift capabilities, has already secured a backlog of nearly US$0.5 billion…
The Research & Development Corp. (RDC) is investing US$4.9 million in a multi-purpose survey, support and research and development vessel to be stationed in St John’s. The total cost to design, build and operate such a vessel over a 10…
China’s CIMC Raffles completed its first Arctic-operable semisubmersible for client North Sea Rigs at its Yantai yard, the company announced on 19 January. CIMC Raffles designed the semisub together with Global Maritime. The North Dragon…
Luxembourg-based Maritime Construction Services’ subsidiary New Orient Marine awarded Keppel Singmarine a US$200 million contract to build an ice-class multi-purpose vessel. The ice-class vessel will be designed to operate in temperature…
Ulstein won the design and equipment contract for Van Oord’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Bravenes. Van Oord’s Bravenes. From Ulstein Working in close cooperation with Van Oord…
Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded an industry first ever 16 streamer 3D seismic contract for an undisclosed client in the Kara Sea. The contract has a duration of approximately three months and will start in Q2 2015. Dolphin will…
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