Genesis Petroleum has hired AGR Petroleum Services to undertake a complete well services project and make available the Byford Dolphin semi-submersible rig to drill the company’s first U.K. well early in 2008. 
Clough Limited has entered into an agreement for an eight year charter of a new subsea operational support vessel. The as yet unnamed vessel will be ready for service in June 2008. Once operational the vessel will be deployed on various projects and contracts, primarily in the Australasian and SE Asian regions. 
Year-and-half-old Subsea 7 offshoot i-Tech has snagged four new contracts worth a combined $30 million from Petrobras, Canadian Superior, Sonangol and Petro-Canada the company heralded Monday. 
Sub-sea engineering firm JP Kenny has bought a design software license package from Dassault Systems to improve its design and installation operations for large Western Australia gas-field projects. 
Technip will install an electro-hydraulic control umbilical for the Bass Lite in the Gulf of Mexico, a Mariner Energy contract of unspecified value.
Kimu field seismic survey underway Jul 13, 2007
Cue announces that line preparation for seismic acquisition over the Kimu gas field in PRL-08, Papua New Guinea has commenced.
Samsung scoops $350M Skarv topsides Jul 12, 2007
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has won a $350 million order from BP in Norway to build and install the deckside process equipment for the floating production storage and offloading vessel FPSO Skarv. 
Operator BP has handed Vetco Gray the NOK1.59 billion ($265 million) job of engineering, building and then maintaining the subsea production equipment of the Norwegian Sea’s Skarv development. 
Stavanger-based rig owner Prosafe has been asked by Aban Offshore Ltd. for two more years of the floating storage and offloading vessel, the FSO Endeavor, at the PY-3 field offshore India. 
Saudi Aramco has awarded a major multi-million U.S. Dollar contract for the Tie-in Platforms and Scraper Decks Project to National Petroleum construction Company (NPCC) of the United Arab Emirates. |
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Electromagnetic Geoservices has been awarded a contract by an unnamed energy company to determine the hydrocarbon content of potential reservoirs offshore eastern Canada using seabed-logging technology. 
Talisman Energy Norge AS (Talisman) has been granted consent for use of Blane. 
Statoil has has handed out five-year contracts for pipeline coating services worth NOK3 billion ($515 million) with Bredero, Socotherm and Eupec, the oil company heralded Friday. 
Paris-based process specialist Technip will transform heavy oil into crude at Fort Hills Oil Sands project near Edmonton, Canada after being awarded a contract by Fort Hills Energy on Thursday. 
Wellstream International Ltd and its Seastream JV announce the receipt of contracts from BHP Billiton for the Pyrenees development, offshore Western Australia. This development covers three separate fields; Crosby, Ravensworth and Stickle all to be tied back to an FPSO in water depths of 250m. 
Wood Group Engineering has secured three more years of work operating and maintaining the floating production, storage and offloading vessel Triton for an estimated $120 million, it was learned Tuesday. 
Offshore construction outfit Oceanteam Power & Umbilical has hired out its DP2 cable lay and repair vessel TEAM OMAN to Nexans Norway for umbilical repair work in the Middle East. 
Drilling contractor Awilco Offshore has secured a drilling package from National Oilwell in Kristiansand, Norway for a fourth new-build, semi-submersible drill rig not yet ordered. 
Statoil has signed contracts with Canadian flyer CHC Helicopter Service for flights between offshore installations and the coastal cities of Bergen and Floro and the maintenance of a standby chopper at the Statfjord B platform. 
Paris-based seismic outfit CGGVeritas has ordered two seismic vessels from Norwegian shipbuilder Eidesvik Offshore for a combined $420 million, with deliveries timed for 2010, when most of today's newbuild semi-submersibles begin exploring the seas. |
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