Category archives for: Middle East

NHC Launches Diving and Subsea Training Courses in Middle East and South Africa

NHC Launches Diving and Subsea Training Courses in Middle East and South Africa

A specialist North-east oil and gas industry support and training facility has launched new subsea related courses in the Middle East and South Africa as part of the company’s global expansion plans to meet growing demand from clients. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC), which already delivers training in Baku, Brazil, and Spain, has joined [...]

Spectrum Starts Another Multi-Client 3D Survey Offshore Lebanon

Spectrum Starts Another Multi-Client 3D Survey Offshore Lebanon

Spectrum announces the start of another Multi-Client 3D survey in the Levantine Basin offshore Lebanon. The survey is approximately 2,200 square kilometer in size and the acquisition will be carried out by Polarcus using its 12-streamer vessel ‘Adira’. The survey is directly North of Spectrum’s 3,052 square kilometer Multi-Client 3D survey that was acquired late [...]

Oceanteam to Supply 4000t Modular Carousel System to LS Cable

Oceanteam to Supply 4000t Modular Carousel System to LS Cable

Oceanteam Shipping has been awarded a contract to supply LS Cable – a leading supplier of a wide range of industrial specialty cables – a certified 4000t modular carousel system, 10t tensioner and accompanying equipment for a two-year project. The carousel and additional equipment will be used for the transportation of 2 x 50km of [...]

UAE: ADMA-OPCO Joins PDAM Industry Initiative

UAE: ADMA-OPCO Joins PDAM Industry Initiative

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) has become the first oil company in the Middle East to join the Pipeline Defect Assessment Manual (PDAM), a joint industry initiative that shares best practices on the assessment of defects in pipelines. PDAM presents the best currently available methods for the assessment of pipeline defects (such as corrosion, [...]

Eni CEO and Tunisian Prime Minister Discuss Efficiency and Safety of Transmed Gas Pipeline

Eni CEO and Tunisian Prime Minister Discuss Efficiency and Safety of Transmed Gas Pipeline

The Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Tunisia, Ali Laareyedh, the Tunisian Minister of Industry, Mehdi Jomaa, and Eni’s CEO, Paolo Scaroni, met in Tunis for an exchange of ideas aiming to take all necessary and appropriate measures to ensure the efficiency and safety of the Transmed gas pipeline that crosses Tunisia [...]

Grandweld: Dive Maintenance Support Vessel (VIDEO)

Grandweld: Dive Maintenance Support Vessel (VIDEO)

“ARADAH”, a 55m Dive and Maintenance Support Vessel (DMSV), built for ADNOC,  was completed in January 2012. This state-of-the-art vessel is the first from its class built by Grandweld Shipyards. It is equipped with 360 degree Schottel Rotatable Propulsion System, serves dive and maintenance operations in Abu Dhabi offshore fields, has dynamic positioning (providing the [...]

Ocean Diving & Marine Receives Ocean 8 Vessel

Ocean Diving & Marine Receives Ocean 8 Vessel

Nass Marine Services, a marine division of the Nass Group, has recently handed over a competed project that involved the fabrication of a new deck cargo barge to Ocean Diving & Marine Services that is owned and operated by Mr. Samir Engineer in the Kingdom. The vessel, Ocean 8 was fabricated to include a new [...]

Saudi Aramco Starts First Phase of Production from Manifa Field

Saudi Aramco Starts First Phase of Production from Manifa Field

Saudi Aramco announced the first phase production start-up at the Manifa field commenced on April 10th, 3 months ahead of schedule and well under the program’s approved budget. The Manifa field’s production capacity is expected to reach 500,000 bpd by July 2013, and is planned to reach its full design capacity of 900,000 bpd of [...]

UAE: Polarcus Names New Chief Operating Officer

UAE: Polarcus Names New Chief Operating Officer

Polarcus Limited (“Polarcus” or the “Company”) announces the appointment of Mr. Duncan Eley as Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of the Company. Effective May 01, 2013, Mr. Eley will assume the position of COO and head the Company’s three business lines; Sales and Marketing, Multi-Client and Marine Acquisition, together with the EHSQ and Information Technology support [...]

Azerbaijan: West Chirag Jacket Sailed Away

Azerbaijan: West Chirag Jacket Sailed Away

The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) announces that the jacket for the West Chirag platform built as part of the Chirag Oil Project (COP) sailed away yesterday from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) for offshore installation. The jacket transportation, launch and installation activities have been carefully planned and are expected to take [...]







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