Structures and Maintenance

Hanøytangen AS awarded rig upgrade contract for Borgland Dolphin

Oct 15, 2014

Bergen Group Hanøytangen AS has been awarded a rig upgrade contract from Dolphin Drilling AS.

Decommissioning spend to average £1.5bn over next 10 years, study says

Oct 15, 2014

The cost of dismantling and removing retired oil and gas assets in the UK North Sea is expected to hit £1bn this year, double the figure for 2013, a new study suggests.

Woodside awards global inspection provider contract to LR Energy

Oct 1, 2014

Safety and asset reliability firm, Lloyd’s Register (LR) Energy, has been awarded a contract by Woodside to provide global inspection services.

Skandi Santos vessel awarded five-year contract extension from Petrobras

Oct 1, 2014

AKOFS Offshore has been awarded a contract extension from Petrobras to use the Skandi Santos, a subsea equipment support vessel in Brazil.

Staff evacuated from Shell’s Brent Alpha after container falls into North Sea

Sep 30, 2014

Staff were being evacuated yesterday from Royal Dutch Shell’s Brent Alpha platform after a mechanical failure during a lift caused a large container to fall from a crane into the North...

Veolia wins contract to decommission Talisman’s failed Yme platform

Sep 17, 2014

Veolia group subsidiary, Veolia Environmental Services UK, has won the contract to decommission Talisman’s 14,000-tonne Yme platform in the Norwegian North Sea, with a goal of...

Maersk Giant mobile drilling unit will be Yme living quarters

Sep 17, 2014

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Talisman Energy Norge consent to use the Maersk Giant mobile drilling facility to house workers preparing to decommission Talisman’s...

Aker Wayfarer wins major five-year Petrobras contract in Brazil

Sep 17, 2014

An Aker Solutions’ subsidiary has won a contract worth $465m over five years from Petrobras to provide subsea intervention services offshore Brazil from the Aker Wayfarer vessel.

McDermott awarded vessel support contract for Anadarko in Gulf of Mexico

Sep 3, 2014

A subsidiary of McDermott International has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to provide construction and decommissioning support...

DOF Subsea tots up $134m thanks to multiple contracts

Sep 3, 2014

Subsea services firm DOF Subsea has won multiple contracts with a total value of approximately $134m.

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