More Offshore Oil Rigs & Vessels News

Cemre Shipyard has delivered its 20th platform supply vessel, Vestland Mira, to Norwegian contractor Havyard Group, on behalf of Vestland Offshore.

Otto Marine Ltd. (SP.OTML) has chartered two anchor-handling tug supply vessels for work offshore Africa.

Ulstein has delivered the CBO Pacifico platform supply vessel, the second PX106 design newbuild for CBO this year.

Songa Offshore has contracted Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to build two semisubmersible drilling rigs for a total of $1.1 billion.

Topaz Energy and Marine has completed construction of two anchor handling/offshore support/towing vessels for BP.

Saipem has contracted Fairstar Heavy Transport to provide floatover and installation services for a platform offshore Iraq.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. has signed a $1.7-billion agreement to convert four VLCC vessels into hulls for platforms P-74, P-75, P-76, P-77, and for the transfer of rights areas.

Chevron Corp. has announced that the deepwater drillship Pacific Santa Ana has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five-year contract with a subsidiary of Pacific Drilling S.A.

Suncor Energy expects the 21-week dockside maintenance program for the Terra Nova FPSO to start in June.

Cathelco is renewing the impressed current cathodic protection system on the hull of the FPSO Xikomba, which is being redeployed on Eni’s block 15/06 West hub development off Angola.

Seadrill has ordered a sixth newbuild drillship from Samsung.

Construction is under way of the world's first offshore floating LNG (FLNG) facility.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering and design) contract from Statoil to design the world's largest spar platform for the Aasta Hansteen field development in the Norwegian Sea.

Total E&P UK and Elf Exploration UK have taken Solstad Offshore’s platform supply vessel (PSV) Normand Aurora on a long-term basis.

Subsea 7 has exercised an option to extend a contract on the construction vessel Skandi Seven by one year from March 31, 2013.

BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. has contracted with Prosafe to use the Safe Caldeonia accommodation support vessel at the Andrew area development in the North Sea.

Dockwise (OSLO:DOCK) has decided to convert its Type 2 Black Marlin transportation vessel to a Type 1 vessel, similar to sister ship Blue Marlin.

The new lay vessel CSV North Ocean 105, jointly owned by Oceanteam Shipping and J Ray McDermott (Norway) has started a five-year time charter immediately upon delivery from Metalships.

Harris Pye has completed a comprehensive refit and refurbishment of the Diamond Offshore Drilling drillship Ocean Clipper.

Energy Drilling Pte. Ltd. has contracted COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co. Ltd. to build two self-erecting drilling tender barges at $200 million for delivery in 2Q 2014.

Lamprell has won orders from various clients this year for jackup rig upgrades and refurbishment, with a total value around $62 million.

Imtech Marine has completed work on three newbuild vessels to serve upstream offshore E&P operators.

Statoil has ordered a new type of intervention vessel from Aker Solutions.