DIVING DISCOVERY

HARVEY BISSO SUBSEA successfully completed its first subsea project performing saturation diving work in 350 feet of water at ATP Oil & Gas Corporation’s deepwater platform in Grand Isle block 115.

Read the rest of this entry »

BURNING ANSWER

The US coastguard is to set fire to oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico to prevent the slick from reaching shore after last week’s explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

Read the rest of this entry »

PODS FIX PROBLEMS

With bunker prices high and rising, and with pressure to consider the environment too – there is plenty of scope for innovation in the DP sector, and the arguments for the use of podded thrusters are gaining strength.

Read the rest of this entry »

DEEP DEAL

Deep Sea Supply has announced a new time-charter deal for four anchor handling tug and supply (AHTS) vessels from Gazflot, LLC, part of Russian gas major Gazprom (MCX: GAZP).

Read the rest of this entry »

SHUTTLE GROWTH

Teekay Corp looks set to expand its fleet serving in Brazil to take advantage of the country’s rising offshore oil production.

Read the rest of this entry »

OIL AND WATER

Who said oil and water don’t mix? Solstad Offshore ASA certainly don’t agree – as they are in the process of redeploying two UT755 LN platform supply vessels as potable water and fuel oil carriers to service Brazil’s offshore rig market for Petrobras.

Read the rest of this entry »

DEAL CLOSE

Tsakos Energy Navigation is reportedly close to signing a contract worth US$620 million for a new ultra-deepwater drillship, to be built at a South Korean yard.

Read the rest of this entry »

LEGAL ACTION STARTS

According to news reports, both BP Plc and Transocean Ltd. are being sued by the family of one of 11 workers missing and feared dead in the wake of an explosion two days ago aboard an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Read the rest of this entry »

ENVIRONMENTAL FALLOUT

Deepwater Horizon has sunk into the Gulf of Mexico, sparking fears of an environmental disaster two days after a massive blast that left 11 workers missing.

Read the rest of this entry »

ALL ABUZZ

There has been a real buzz around Bollinger Shipyard lately, as the company has been constructing a new range of DP2 PSVs.

Read the rest of this entry »