January 17th, 20200Tianjin Binhai Heavy Machinery, a subsidiary yard of Taiyuan Heavy Industry, has entered into a charter contract with Mexican drilling company Perforaciones Marítimas Mexicanas (PMM) for a newbuild jackup rig. Under the contract, PMM will charter the rig from Binhai Heavy for a fix period of 600 days, with two 360-day options, and...
January 14th, 20200Brokers report Mexican LPG specialists Empresas Nieto has taken the plunge and decided to become a shipowner. Via a trading arm subsidiary, the conglomerate has ordered a brace of 38,000 cu m LPG carriers at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea. The ships will deliver in June and September next year. Empresas Nieto is involved in most...
January 8th, 20200Mexican state energy company Pemex has announced that a fire broke out on its Akal-C 6 platform yesterday, causing injury to three workers. The fire was put out by the personnel on the platform about one hour later, with two OSVs near the platform also participated in the firefighting operations. Pemex said activities have resumed...
August 7th, 20190Tor Olav Troim’s Borr Drilling has been awarded an additional jackup rig contract by Mexico’s Pemex. Borr currently has two jackup rigs about to commence work with Pemex, who have now contracted a third rig. The new contract is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2019, and is for around 18 months. "The newly awarded...
June 26th, 20190Maersk Drilling has been awarded contracts by Repsol Exploración Mexico for a two-well project utilising 2013-built drillship at block 10 and 29, offshore Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico. The contracts are scheduled to commence in March 2020 and have an expected duration of 138 days. Two one-well options are also...
June 5th, 20190Following on from an LOI in April, seismic specialist Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a multi-year acquisition contract by Mexico’s Pemex. Commencing in the third quarter, the two-year contract has a minimum value of $29.3m and could reach as high as $73.3m. EMGS will utilise survey vessel for shallow and...
May 1st, 20190US offshore engineering firm McDermott International has been awarded a contract by ENI Mexico for engineering, procurement and construction of wellhead platform one (WHP1) to be installed at the Amoca field, offshore Dos Bocas in Mexico. Amoca WHP1 is an unmanned oil and gas production facility that includes eight producer wells and...
March 27th, 20190Dubai-based offshore services provider Telford Offshore has been awarded pipelaying and construction services contracts by Mexico’s Protexa. Protexa is chartering Telford’s multipurpose vessels Telford 31, Telford 34 and Telford 28, for a combined 400 days, and the vessels will be deployed on a shallow-water engineering,...
February 20th, 20190Keppel FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has fixed a sale and leaseback solution in order to deliver the jackup rig, , to Mexico’s Grupo R. A Keppel O&M subsidiary has bought the rig from Grupo R for $179m, which is balance contract value and the rig will now be leased back to the...
February 14th, 20190Houston-based offshore driller Rowan Companies has been awarded a one-well contract in Mexico by PC Carigali Mexico Operations, part of Malaysia’s Petronas, for 2014-built drillship . The contact is scheduled to commence in the second quarter of 2019, and has an estimated duration of 80 days. Petronas also has an additional one-well...
