January 15th, 20200Maersk Drilling has received a conditional letter of award by Total for a three-well exploration drilling project utilising 2015-built drillship . The drillship will be employed offshore Angola and Namibia for a campaign, which includes the deepest water depth ever drilled offshore. The project includes two wells offshore Angola and...
December 11th, 20190Norway’s DOF Subsea has sealed a two-month contract with an unnamed international energy client in Africa. The scope is for the use of to deliver integrated FSV services, project management and engineering on multiple project packages. The contract is in direct continuation with the ongoing commitment for the vessel, which the...
October 30th, 20190France’s Bourbon and its local joint venture company Sonasurf have sign a three-year technological partnership for the deployment of smart shipping with Total in Angola. The smart shipping programme will utilise five latest-generation supply vessels from the Bourbon Explorer 500 series on blocks 17 and 32 off the Angolan coast....
August 28th, 20190Construction support vessel , owned by France’s Bourbon and Dutch outfit Oceanteam, has been awarded an extension until mid-November 2019. The initial charter started in 2016, and with options can be extended through to the first quarter of 2020. The 2007-built vessel has been assisting with installing jumpers and X-mas trees for...
February 7th, 20190John Fredriksen’s Seadrill has announced the formation of a 50:50 joint venture with Empresa de Serviços e Sondagens de Angola, an affiliate of state-owned Sonangol, which will operate four drillships with a focus on opportunities in Angolan waters. Both Seadrill and Sonangol will bareboat charter two drillships into the joint...
January 10th, 20190Japan is pushing ahead with its largest ever overseas port development, which flies in the face of neighbour China’s One Belt, One Road initiative. Trading house Toyota Tsusho and state-run Japan Bank for International Cooperation are joining forces to raise funds for a huge port in southern Angola that could cost up to 70bn yen...
June 15th, 201712The NGO Human Rights At Sea (HRAS) has issued a shocking 18-page report on the plight of the suicidal former crew of a platform supply vessel detained in Angola since March. The former crew of the are currently facing a criminal trial in Soyo, Angola for allegedly being complicit in the theft of fuel despite not being arrested. The...
March 10th, 20160Total E&P Angola has awarded Technip Angola Engenharia, a joint venture (JV) between Technip and state energy company Sonangol, a three-year engineering services contract for four of its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units. The JV will provide engineering, technical assistance and other procurement-related...
February 24th, 20160Harkand and its local partner Esopeg have established Harkand Angola, a joint venture that will provide subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services in the African country. “This new venture, combined with the operations of the Swordfish DP2 multi-purpose vessel in the country, provides a very sound and sustainable...
May 18th, 20150Athens: ENI Angola, part of Italy-based energy producer ENI, has extended its timecharter of one Ocean Rig drillship and extended its contract on another. Ocean Rig Olympia has won a new contract to drill in offshore Angola, starting in the third quarter of 2015. The contract is for a minimum period of eight months with a total...
