Kongsberg Maritime is delighted to announce that it has received a letter of intent for a five year Framework Agreement that positions the leading offshore systems developer as one of three strategic partners able to bid for the supply of Safety and Automation Systems (SAS) for all future Statoil Green Field Projects.
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In an odd moment during last weeks ongoing Deepwater Horizon hearing, a representative of the Marshall Islands, the flag state for the drilling vessel, took to the lawyers’ podium at a federal investigative hearing and admitted that a “clerical error” had caused the administration used by the small Pacific island country to mischaracterize the rig in documents.
According to a press release from the Chamber of Shipping, “The absurd process for allocating wind farm sites around the UK coast is wasting time and money”.
Wärtsilä’s has signed a deal with Lamprell to provide a low fuel consumption, environmentally sound solution to the company’s need for a power system for its latest wind farm installation vessel under construction.
BP has been forced to abandon hopes of drilling in the Arctic, currently the centre of a new oil rush, owing to its tarnished reputation after the Gulf of Mexico spill. Read the rest of this entry
Pride International, Inc. has announced the dedication of the second of its four new deepwater drillships under construction by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, the Deep Ocean Clarion.
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Remontowa shipyard in Poland has delivered the 10,000 bhp/120 tonnes bollard pull AHTS “Sea Valiant”.
There’s a scramble developing as Indian interests all race for a piece of the offshore, oil cake. Read the rest of this entry
Converteam has succesfully bid to fit a new DP system on the Cal Dive International saturation diving vessel, ‘Uncle John’.
The trend for companies to join forces has continued recently, as subsea excavation and dredging specialist Scanmudring has formed a strategic alliance with the Marin Group.
