IHC Merwede has contracts Alcoa to produce the first-ever aluminum alloy fallpipe for a dredge system. Tideway is the IHC customer.

Interpetroleum Services has awarded Prosafe a bareboat contract for the accommodation support rig Safe Lancia, operating for Pemex offshore Mexico.

Baker Hughes Inc. has agreed to sell two stimulation vessels to Superior Energy Services Inc.

Subsea 7 Inc. and Otto Candies LLC now have an agreement to cooperate for access to the newbuild Ross Candies for Life-of-Field services.

The active search for the 11 missing crewmembers from the Deepwater Horizon has been suspended, officials said Friday.

Chevron has deployed Transocean’s ultra deepwater drillship Discoverer Inspiration in the US Gulf of Mexico, under a five-year contract.

Cobalt International and Anadarko have executed a Rig Assignment Agreement for Cobalt to use Diamond’s semisubmersible drilling rig Ocean Monarch.

Rowan, majority-owner of offshore high-spec jackup rigs, says it sees an increase in tendering for its drilling units across all regions.

Keppel AmFELS has delivered the jackup Tuxpan to Mexico’s Perforadora Central.

ATP has completed installation of the topsides modules on the drilling and production platform ATP Titan along with all 12 mooring lines, with an aim for first production in late first quarter of this year.

Hornbeck Offshore Services has introduced the HOS Centerline, a Jones Act qualified, 370-ft (113-m) multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) to its fleet.

Results from the Knotty Head appraisal well in the Gulf of Mexico Green Canyon block 512 are expected in 2Q 2010, according to operator Nexen. The semisub Ensco 8501 is drilling the well.

Helix Energy Solutions has awarded Wood Group a contract to provide commissioning services and offshore personnel for the Helix Producer I, the first ship-shaped floating production unit (FPU) in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Helix Energy Solutions Group’s new deepwater pipelay vessel Caesar has left a Chinese shipyard and is transiting to the Gulf of Mexico.

Keppel Shipyard is on track to deliver the first FPSO for the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to BW Pioneer.

The HOS Mystique, Saipem America’s new 250-ft (76-m) class II DP ROV support vessel, is currently mobilized in Fouchon, Louisiana.

The semisub ENSCO 8501 has begun work in the Gulf of Mexico under a three-and-a-half-year contract with Nexen and Noble Energy.

BJ Services is launching the Blue Dolphin, a high-performance stimulation vessel for oil and gas wells in the Lower Tertiary and other Gulf of Mexico formations.