A floating storage and offloading vessel will shortly leave the Yulian shipyard in China for the Afren-operated Ebok field development off southeast Nigeria.

SBM Offshore has agreed to contract extensions with Total for two floating storage units in service off West Africa.

Hallin Marine says its Ullswater service vessel is going to Angola to conduct a saturation diving contract.

Jurong Shipyard has completed the conversion of Ghana’s first FPSO for the deepwater Jubilee Phase 1 development.

AuDAX Resources has awarded Atwood Oceanics a contract to use the rig Atwood Southern Cross for operations offshore Tunisia.

An undisclosed client has awarded Transocean a three-year contract for the moored deepwater semisubmersible rig GSF Celtic Sea.

Noble Energy EG has awarded SBM Offshore a contract for the provision, lease, and operation of an FPSO for the Aseng field development, offshore Equatorial Guinea.

SeaBird Exploration has received a four-month time charter contract for use of the Osprey Explorer as a source vessel in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Offshore Marine Services UK (OMS UK) has taken over the management and operation of four seismic support vessels for operations in the North Sea and West African waters.