Statoil has cancelled its contract for the COSL PIONEER rig some 13 months before the expiry date of August 2016.

COSL Pioneer has been suspended since 8 October 2014 and Statoil said it has not managed to find alternative activity for the rig during the intervening period.

Supply chain senior veep Jon Arnt Jacobsen, said, ‘COSL Pioneer and its crew have demonstrated a good safety culture and delivered efficient drilling operations to Statoil. Cancellation is a consequence of overcapacity in the rig portfolio.’

Harkand has kicked off work for Premier Oil supporting the operator’s activities on the SOLAN (32/6) field development, West of Shetland.

The multi-purpose service vessel the Siem Spearfish, which is on long-term charter to Harkand, arrived in Newcastle earlier this month to begin mobilisation for the campaign which will see it perform walk-to-work duties for the ongoing commissioning work on site.

Dolphin Drilling has altered the terms of its contract with Total for the BORGSTEN DOLPHIN tender support vessel.

The $141mn extension covers a revised contract period commencing 1 October 2015 and continuing to 31 January 2018, subject to certain early termination rights from end 2016.

Canyon Offshore has mobilised two new UHD-III rovs to its GRAND CANYON II vessel for subsea field work.

The Grand Canyon II is designed to perform a broad range of subsea operations, with DP3-class station keeping for work in severe weather conditions. It features a 250t heave compensated crane, facilities to launch port and starboard side rovs simultaneously. The vessel’s first project was for survey and trenching work in the UK.

The UHD-IIIs were utilised continuously for a four week period, with only one hour of maintenance time.

Dolphin said its newly delivered high-capacity 3D seismic vessel, POLAR EMPRESS, is in full production, towing 14 streamers on the Maud Extension multi-client survey in the Barents Sea.

The vessel has a capacity to operate up to 22 seismic streamers.

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