Statoil and its partners will invest US$122 million (NOK1 billion) in a new project to boost production from the Fram field in the Norwegian North Sea, in the Troll license area, the Norwegian major announced on 6 November. The investment…
Two UK engineering firms have joined forces to offer what they're calling a new project delivery alternative for North Sea operators. Aberdeen-based Apollo Offshore and Kintore-based AquaTerra Group say they want to offer an 'agile, lean and integrated engineering business' via FOS Group…
McDermott International has won a letter of award from Reliance Industries for work on the KG-D6 subsea field development in the Krishna Godavari Basin offshore eastern India. McDermott will provide engineering, procurement, installation and pre-commissioning of subsea flowlines…
LQT Industries has been awarded the engineering and construction of a three story aluminum accommodations facility by a major oil and gas production company for a deepwater tension leg platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico. The aluminum accommodations…
North Sea minnow Independent Oil and Gas has signed a letter of intent with Offshore Design Engineering for work on its Blythe Hub and Vulcan Satellites Hub development. ODE will provide technical and operational support ahead of final…
KBR subsidiary Energo Engineering has been awarded a guidance study contract by the US Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) for the integrity management process of tension leg platforms (TLPs) in the US Gulf of Mexico. As…
Husky Energy has awarded Kvaerner a contract for engineering and marine operations to tow and install the concrete gravity structure (CGS) for the West White Rose Project offshore Canada. The installation is scheduled for Q2 2021. The…
Wood Group has completed its 'transformational' US$2.7 billion acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler. Image from Wood Group. Meanwhile, WorleyParsons has entered into a binding…
Petrofac has secured a contract extension from Chevron North Sea for the provision of engineering services; an agreement it has held since 2014. The 12-month agreement, which comes into effect this month, will involve the continued provision…
North Sea-focused Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has signed a letter of intent with Heerema Fabrication Group for front-end engineering and design (FEED), and engineering procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of up to four normally unmanned installation platforms (NUIs)…
Ophir Energy has awarded an upstream construction for its Fortuna floating LNG project - west Africa's first deepwater FLNG project - to Schlumberger company OneSubsea and Subsea 7's Subsea Integration Alliance. The contract is an engineering…
Statoil's Aasta Hansteen spar platform topside has been loaded on to a heavy transport vessel and is set to sail for Norway in coming days. The 24,000-tonne topside will take two months to travel from Hyundai Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea to Norway…
Aker Solutions has won a contract from Statoil for front-end engineering and design of a new module to increase output at Troll, one of Norway's largest natural gas fields. The order includes an option for engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the module…
TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract from Hurricane Energy for the Lancaster early production system (EPS), west of Shetland. Hurricane took final investment devision on the project yesterday…
Norway-based PG Flow Solutions has won a contract from Aibel to provide a chemical injection package (CIP) for the Dvalin tie-in to Heidrun topside EPCI project. PG Flow Solutions’ scope of work is a 8.5m x 3.8m x 3m CIP, which will be…