Oslo-listed seismic data specialist TGS has won a shallow water OBN acquisition contract offshore Trinidad. The 3D baseline contract is scheduled to commence early in the third quarter 2025. The total duration of the survey is approximately 80 days. “Our OBN technology continues to be the preferred...
https://splash247.com/tgs-clinches-obn-seismic-contract-in-trinidad/
Offshore driller Noble Corp has won a deal for the high-specification semisubmersible rig Noble Developer to drill three wells offshore Suriname for Petronas. The contract is expected to begin around June 2025, with an estimated duration of 200 days. The firm contract value is approximately $84m...
https://splash247.com/noble-bags-84m-suriname-gig-with-petronas/
More than eight months after it was involved in a severe oil spill in the Caribbean, the tug Solo Creed has been arrested in Angola as part of massive $244m clean-up costs tallied by the government of Trinidad and Tobago. On the morning of February 7, local authorities detected an oil slick...
https://splash247.com/trinidad-and-tobago-arrests-tug-involved-in-februarys-caribbean-oil-spill/
More than six months after it grounded, spewing oil into the Caribbean, the Gulfstream barge has been refloated with a dive team now assessing the overturned vessel before it is towed aw from Cove in Tobago to Port of Spain in Trinidad. The government of Trinidad & Tobago has yet to officially...
https://splash247.com/grounded-oil-barge-refloated-off-tobago/
Houston-based subsea and deepwater engineering and construction player McDermott has won an engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI), hookup and commissioning contract for Shell’s Manatee gas field development off the southeast coast of Trinidad and Tobago. The contract with an...
https://splash247.com/mcdermott-clinches-new-trinidad-deal-with-shell/
US-based offshore surveyor TDI-Brooks has been awarded geotechnical work for Woodside Energy’s Calypso development off Trinidad and Tobago. The contract will see the deployment of TDI-Brooks’ most recent addition to its survey fleet the 2000-built Nautilus – the former offshore support vessel...
https://splash247.com/tdi-brooks-wins-woodside-survey-work-off-trinidad/
Nearly four months after Tobago suffered one of its worst environmental disasters, the vessel alleged to have been involved has been tracked down thousands of kilometres away in another continent and arrested on separate charges. On the morning of February 7, local authorities detected an oil slick...
Norwegian surveyor Argeo has signed a contract with Woodside Energy for an AUV geophysical survey of the deepwater Calypso field off Trinidad and Tobago. The work will be carried out by the Argeo Searcher vessel and will begin in the third quarter of 2024. The project will occupy the vessel for...
https://splash247.com/woodside-energy-taps-argeo-for-calypso-survey-off-trinidad/
The oil spill from a capsized barge near the Caribbean island of Tobago has stopped. Trinidad and Tobago’s government said it is working to recover the sunken vessel after the spill that lasted for a month and spread hundreds of kilometres west across the Caribbean. The nation’s prime minister,...
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In the hunt to find the owners of a tug and a barge responsible for one of the Caribbean’s worst oil spills in recent years, a joint investigation carried out by Bellingcat and the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian has laid the finger of blame on a Panama-registered company called Melaj Offshore....