The high-specification ultra-deepwater drillship Tidal Action, owned by Hanwha Ocean, has started its maiden contract with Petrobras at Roncador field, offshore Brazil.The Tidal Action arrived in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro on July 7, 2025, and has now been deployed to the Roncador field in the Campos Basin offshore to start operations for Petrobras. Tidal Action, built on Hanwha Ocean’s proprietary design…
Norwegian offshore supply vessel owner DOF Group has secured a contract award for moorings hook-up services in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.The contract will use construction support vessel (CSV) Skandi Hercules with related mooring and subsea installation services…
Singapore-based marine logistics firm Marco Polo has hired Norwegian ship designer Salt Ship Design to design the CSOV Plus, the next-generation commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) for oil and gas and offshore wind sectors.The contract…
Saipem, through its subsidiary PT Saipem Indonesia, in its role as leader of the consortium which also includes PT Tripatra Engineers & Constructors, PT Tripatra Engineering, and PT McDermott Indonesia, has received formal notification of the…
Yinson Production, via its joint venture PTSC South East Asia (PTSC SEA), has secured a lease and operate contract for a new floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit for Vietnam’s offshore Block B gas development.The contract was awarded by Phu Quoc Petroleum Operating Company (PQPOC)…
China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has brought online the Kenli 10-2 oil field (Phase I), the largest shallow lithological oil field offshore China.The project is located in southern Bohai Sea…
SBM Offshore’s Jaguar floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, bound for deployment at ExxonMobil’s field off Guyana, has entered the drydock at Seatrium yard in Singapore.The drydocking represents a major new forward in the delivery of the FPSO…
China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has made a ‘major breakthrough’ in the exploration of metamorphic buried hills in the deep plays in the South China Sea for the first time, as it makes an oil and gas find in Beibu Gulf…
Seatrium has announced the impending delivery of Petrobras 78 (P-78), the first of a series of turnkey floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units to Petrobras.The sailaway ceremony took place two weeks ago at Seatrium’s Singapore yard…
Fugro has signed a letter of award to perform a site characterization program for a deepwater gas field development in Southeast Asia.The contract award represents the largest geotechnical and geophysical survey project for Fugro in the Asia Pacific region to date…
Offshore energy engineering and construction services company Lamprell said Friday it had delivered the first of two new build jack-up rigs to its client, International Maritime Industries (IMI). The jack-up rig, Kingdom 1, which has been built collaboratively between ARO…
China-based offshore drilling contractor China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) said this week it had agreed to buy four jack-up drilling rigs from Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore.COSL's subsidiaries have agreed to buy four JU2000E jack-up drilling rigs at a total contract price of RMB3…
Malaysian drilling contractor Velesto Drilling revealed Wednesday it had secured an offshore drilling rig contract with Jadestone Energy. Under the contract, Velesto Drilling is providing a jack-up drilling rig for the East Belumunt field infill drilling program…
Malaysian firm Velesto Drilling, a subsidiary of Velesto Energy, has secured a contract from the Thai-based oil firm PTTEP to provide a jack-up drilling rig for its offshore drilling program in Malaysia.In a statement on Tuesday, July 11, 2023…
Malaysian offshore drilling rig contractor Velesto Drilling has received three notices of assignments related to a drilling contract award with Petronas first announced in March.The contract is for providing three jack-up drilling rigs, the Naga 3…
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