Friday, November 20, 2009 - Hoang Long Joint Operating Company signed a contract with Bumi Armada Berhad and its partner Vietsovpetro, for the provision of a FPSO for the Te Giac Trang Field Development Project in Vietnam.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - EnerMech has invested in specialist equipment to boost the company's hydraulics business line. The CNC machining facility allows the Aberdeen-based company to manufacture equipment parts which previously had to be sourced through suppliers.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Schlumberger's subsea electronic control module has passed the historical milestone of more than a quarter million operational hours in the field with 100% reliability.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Two of Bibby Offshore's dive support vessels achieved significant milestones this month. The DSV Bibby Aquamarine and DSV Bibby Sapphire completed one million man hours and one & half million man hours respectively without a lost time injury.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Blake International USA Rigs has launched a new "Crane Rental Division" within the company. The Crane Division consists of 15 self erecting offshore platform cranes with sizes ranging from 15 tons to 37.5 tons.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Jindal Drilling & Industries has been awarded a firm order for charter hire of the Noble Ed Holt jackup drilling rig from ONGC Ltd. for a period of five years.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Nautilus Rigging has signed an international distribution agreement just two months after launching its groundbreaking lifting hooks range at Offshore Europe 2009.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - CapRock Communications announced a long-term agreement with Statoil to provide satellite communications to a new drillship.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Skymira's latest solution provides field technicians with real-time operating status of remotely located equipment under their care while operating in some of the roughest terrain imaginable.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - The Offshore Courageous, Scorpion's first jackup, has been named the Shell International E&P Jackup Rig of the Year.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - CNPC will supply the bulk of equipment for the $15 billion redevelopment of the Rumaila field in Iraq.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Northern Offshore's subsidiary, Energy Offshore Ltd, was awarded an extension of its ongoing drilling services contract with Maersk Oil and Gas for the jackup Energy Endeavour.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - OMNI Energy Services has successfully completed the initial offshore retrofit and installation of three of its I.M.P.A.C.T. separator cleaning tools.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Dresser-Rand will supply advanced turbomachinery for the FPSO vessel destined for Noble Energy's Aseng Field offshore Equatorial Guinea.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - BP and Dolphin Drilling have failed to resolve a contractual dispute regarding the Byford Dolphin semisub, and the contract will now be considered by an English court.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Keppel FELS has received a bonus for delivering the PV Drilling III rig ahead of schedule to commence operations in the Bach Ho field, offshore Vietnam.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - NuCoastal has awarded the Atwood Vicksburg a three-month contract extension to continue drilling operations offshore Thailand.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Phuel Oil Tools will supply Pressure Control Equipment (PCE) in support of a wider contract awarded to Aker Solutions for performing well service operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - SSP Offshore's proprietary platforms have reached a major development milestone with the completion of global environment performance tests carried out at the LabOceano/Coppe testing basin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - The newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Discoverer Americas has commenced operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for Statoil under a four-year drilling contract.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Vertechas, which specializes in the design, build, sale and rental of specialist engineering service cabins and control rooms for the oil and gas industry, has secured a number of new rental contracts over the last month.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Fairfield Industries announced that Sevmorgeo State Company in Russia has purchased a Z700 nodal seismic data acquisition system designed and manufactured by Fairfield to operate in shallow water at depths between 1 and 700 meters.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Songa Offshore has entered into a letter of intent with Statoil for the semisubmersible Songa Trym for operation in the Norwegian North Sea.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Vertec has secured a significant contract to design and manufacture specialist ROV cabins for a global producer of high technology subsea systems.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Chinese steel pipe producers are pessimistic about industry development amid the US imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese oilwell pipes.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Scorpion Offshore Ltd. secured financing of $27.7 million (the "Note"), which will be used to meet the current progress payment under the Offshore Mischief construction contract.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Leighton International's new state-of-the-art pipe-lay barge Leighton Eclipse has begun work on its inaugural project at the Mumbai High field.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Statoil has signed new contracts with Diamond Offshore and Saipem for the hire of two rigs on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - The fire on Seadrill's West Atlas jackup and PTTEPA's Montara wellhead platform in the Timor Sea was extinguished on November 3, 2009, following a successful operation by Seadrill's West Triton jackup to intercept and kill a leaking well.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - AuDAX Resources has secured the Atwood Southern Cross semisub for the deepwater Sambuca prospect in the Kerkouane permit offshore Tunisia.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - OMV Gas GmbH of Austria, a 100% subsidiary of OMV Group, has again selected integrated compressor line (ICL) technology from GE Oil & Gas.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - Tropical storm Ida more than likely did not cause any material damage to U.S. Gulf oil and gas infrastructure, says RBC Capital Markets.

Monday, November 09, 2009 - Global offshore accommodation specialist HB Rentals has delivered a specially-modified safe area sleeping quarters to SeaBird Exploration's operations in Angola, on a three-year contract.

Monday, November 09, 2009 - Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary, PPL Shipyard, has exercised its right to acquire the second unit of the jackup drilling rig West Elara from Seadrill. The rig is due for completion in September 2010.

Friday, November 06, 2009 - Crosco has announced a 219 day plus options extension of the bareboat charter contract with Diamond Offshore for the use of the jackup drilling rig Ocean King.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - ALMACO was awarded the newbuilding contract for Cabins and Food Handling Systems for Floatel International's offshore accommodation vessel being built in Keppel FELS, Singapore.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - ATP Oil & Gas announced that on September 30, 2009 it donated its Vermilion 318 "A" platform jacket to the Louisiana Artificial Reef Program (Rigs-to-Reefs) for the creation of a new artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico in South Marsh Island 133.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - ATP Oil & Gas announced that its floating deepwater drilling and production facility, the ATP Titan, successfully sailed out of the Gulf Marine Fabricators dock near Aransas Pass, Texas on November 1.

Monday, November 02, 2009 - Seadrill confirms that the West Atlas jackup and PTTEPA's Montara well head platform are on fire. All personnel on the nearby West Triton, Seadrill's other mobile offshore drilling unit working in the area, are safe.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - "Consistent with the increase in demand, our spot market dayrates stabilized during the third quarter and have recently started to increase," stated Mark S. Siegel, Chairman of Patterson-UTI.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - Jurong Shipyard has successfully completed two Bingo 9000 design ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs, Noble Jim Day and Noble Danny Adkins, for Noble Drilling on schedule.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - Northern Offshore has announced a revision of estimated 2010 production tariff revenues from its offshore floating production facility, the Northern Producer.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Aberdeen-based Vertec Engineering Limited has been awarded two contracts to design and build ROV control cabins for two major oil and gas clients.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Petrobras will be the first company to operate an FPSO in the American portion of the Gulf of Mexico, at the Cascade and Chinook fields.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Since the Norwegian market launch of the Argus technology for online Oil in Water (OiW) monitoring in 2005, ProAnalysis has made numerous deliveries to its home market.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - Engineering & Marine Services has secured a Letter of Intent from Hoang Long Joint Operating Company for the manufacture and supply of offshore pedestal cranes for use in Block 16-1 Te Giac Trang Field Development Project in Vietnam.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - CGGVeritas is confident that acquisition of its PEMEX Gulf of Mexico survey with the advanced Sercel Nautilus-Sentinel steered solid streamers will provide a new benchmark for safer operations, quieter data and better crew efficiency.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - Keppel FELS has delivered the Greatdrill Chitra to India's Greatship and the Gold Star deepwater semisub to Brazillian operator Queiroz Galvao ahead of schedule and within budget.

Monday, October 26, 2009 - Keppel Shipyard is on track to deliver the BW Pioneer FPSO vessel, which will operate in the Cascade and Chinook field of the US Gulf of Mexico.

Monday, October 26, 2009 - MMEER Marshall Island LLC, a Mike Mullen Company, has closed on the purchase of the Ocean Tower, a LeTourneau 350' independent leg cantilever jackup from Diamond Offshore.