March 31st, 20200Houston-headquartered McDermott International has been awarded a contract by BHP in Mexico to provide pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) services for a floating production unit that will be installed in the Trion field, located around 180 km off the Mexican coast. The pre-FEED scope includes engineering tasks related to the...
March 26th, 20200Norwegian roro shipowner Wallenius Wilhelmsen has announced that it has started temporary layoffs of about 2,500 production workers in the United States and Mexico. The company said the layoffs are in line with automaker plant closures as part of the fight against coronavirus, and amount to around half of the company’s production...
February 6th, 20200Maersk Drilling has received an extension from Repsol Exploración Mexico for 2013-built drillship . The drillship was originally contracted in June 2019 for two wells at block 10 and 29 offshore Mexico, including two one-well options. Repsol has exercised the first one-well option, with an estimated duration of 70 days commencing...
February 5th, 20200Mexico’s Grupo R has been awarded a contract by Shell Mexico for the lease of 2012-built semi-submersible rig for operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Grupo R will provide Shell with the rig, as well as the support team to drill three wells in deep water, commencing in the third quarter of 2020. Further options are also...
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...
