Russia Rigs/Vessels News

Blue Water Shipping has won a contract to transport a newbuild jackup to the Caspian Sea for Eurasia Drilling.

Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC) has updated its drilling activities in the Caspian Sea.

The need to discover new hydrocarbon reserves is pushing frontier exploration into the world's more remote and challenging regions.

Songa Drilling’s fleet is fully occupied on programs in the Far East, North Sea, and West Africa, according to the company’s latest update.

ABB has won a $40 million-plus contract to provide energy-efficient power and propulsion systems for two new icebreaking vessels set to work offshore eastern Russia.

Saipem has contracted STX Finland’s Turku shipyard for a major overhaul/maintenance program on the semisubmersible pipelay vessel Castoro Sei.

Dockwise Shipping has picked up six new contracts for heavy marine transport with a combined value of over $34 million.

Gazflot has awarded Deep Sea Supply time charter contracts for four anchor handler tug supply vessels offshore Sakhalin, eastern Russia.

Transas Russian fleet has contracted Converteam to supply C-Series dynamic position control systems for two platform supply vessels.

STX Finland Oy and United Shipbuilding Corp. have formed a joint venture to specialize in arctic shipbuilding.

Over half of the first 1,224-km (760-mi) Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea has been completed.

Bureau Veritas has published new rules for Polar Class vessels and specific guidance on ice/structure interaction.

Versabar Inc. says it has commissioned the VB-10000, a new catamaran heavy‐lift vessel. Consisting of twin 240‐ft (73-m)‐tall gantries mounted on custom‐built barges, the vessel lifts with four independent blocks that can be separately controlled or work in synchronization.

The construction vessel GSP Bigfoot 1 has resumed work on the Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi (DLS) gas pipeline in the Russian sector of the Black Sea.

Engineering group Lamprell has a Memorandum of Understanding with Eurasia Drilling Co. to construct a Le Tourneau-designed super 116E jackup for use in the Caspian Sea.

Songa Offshore has updated its drilling fleet status, which currently has assignments in the Asia/Pacific region and northwest Europe.

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

Polarcus has taken delivery of its third purpose-built 3D seismic vessel, the Polarcus Asima .

Saipem´s pipelay vessel Castoro Sei is resuming work on the Finnish offshore stretch of the Nordstream gas trunkline installation in the Baltic Sea.

Three Finnish and two Russian companies will cooperate to develop a new type of oil spill combat icebreaker for Russian shipping company Sovcomflot.

The shallow water derrick/laybarge GSP Bigfoot 1 will install a subsea pipeline for phase 2 of TPAO’s Akcakoca gas project in the Turkish Black Sea.

The mobile offshore drilling rig GSP Saturn left Constanta last week and transited the Bosporus strait en route to the Tuzla shipyard in Turkey.

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (Keppel O&M) is teaming up with Azeri state oil company SOCAR and Azerbaijan Investment Co. (AIC) to develop a new 52-ha shipbuilding and ship-repair facility in Baku..