A new unmanned platform in the Danish North Sea has been approved by partners of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC). The USD 800 million investment is expected to add reserves and resources of 50 million barrels of oil equivalent over the next 30 years to the Danish production. Maersk Oil has – as operator of [...]
The Dutch part of the North Sea is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. Moreover, it is now also being used more and more intensively for other purposes, such as wind energy, nature protection and sand extraction. In order to keep the waterways safe for maritime traffic and to ensure a more [...]
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Bibby Ship Management has won a prestigious contract with BP Exploration Operating Company to fully manage four Regional Support Vessels (RSV) and an additional two new-build Platform Supply Vessels (PSV) for operation in the North Sea. The award of the contract marks a key milestone for Bibby Ship Management in its drive to build on [...]
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Boat builder Alnmaritec has launched the latest of its windfarm support vessels (WFSV) for long time client North Sea Logistics. The 19m Wave Captain class boat is powered by 2 x 880bhp Doosan engines and reaches over 25 knots. She has demonstrated exceptional sea keeping characteristics and superb handling when approaching and pushing up on [...]
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Ezra Holdings Limited, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, announced today that its subsea services, offshore support services and energy services divisions (EMAS AMC, EMAS Marine and EMAS Energy respectively) have been awarded multiple contracts for projects in the North Sea and Asia [...]
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DOF Subsea Group has secured multiple contract awards in the North Sea and the Asia Pacific region, with a total contract value of about USD 130 million. The contracts have been agreed with key clients in UK and Norway. The scopes comprise installation of mooring system and flexible flowline systems, construction support, survey and inspection [...]
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A collision that killed five sailors and sank the Baltic Ace car carrier on Wednesday evening was probably caused by a human error, Reuters informs citing Panagiootis Kakoliris, operations manager at Stamco Ship Management Co., Ltd. which managed the sunken ship. The weather conditions were normal at the time of the collision, according to [...]
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In the collision that happened last night (Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012) between a car carrier and a containership where the car carrier sank off the Dutch coast four sailors died, thirteen were rescued and seven sailors are still missing, Reuters reports. Coastguard spokesman Peter Westenberg told BBC that three boats from the Royal Dutch [...]
Jumbo has been awarded a FPSO mooring, installation and hook-up contract by EnQuest. EnQuest is redeveloping the Ardmore and Duncan fields as Alma and Galia respectively. The project scope is the mooring spread installation and FPSO tow out and hook up. This will be the first offshore project in which Jumbo acts as the main [...]
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A car carrier is sinking in the North Sea after colliding with a containership some 40-50 km from the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Wednesday evening, Reuters reports referring to the statement of Dutch coastguard. Bahamian flagged car carrier Baltic Ace, and the Corvus J, a container ship from Cyprus collided in an important North [...]
