Allseas’ huge single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully installed a 5500-tonne test platform topsides on a substructure in the K-13 field in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The installation was completed on Sunday 7 August…
In this video from Det norske oljeselskap, the company shows a time-lapse of the topside installation on Ivar Aasen on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The 15,000-tonne topside, which was installed late last month, has now been installed on the jacket…
Osbit has successfully completed and loaded out US$3.96 million (£3 million) worth of well intervention equipment to Helix Energy Solutions, for installation in Schiedam on Helix’s chartered Siem Helix 1 vessel. The multi-million dollar…
Dutch heavy weight Allseas has successfully completed commissioning of the topsides lift system on its heavy lift mega-vessel the Pioneering Spirit. The massive, twin-hull US$2.7 billion vessel has also completed the major part of the…
Malaysia’s MISC has built a minimal facilities FPSO for use on marginal fields. John Sheehan takes a look. Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering handle the conversion (fabrication, installation and integration) of the FSO MaMPU 1…
Seaway Heavy Lifting is moving into a new league in offshore renewables, taking on contracts on an engineering, procurement, construction and installation basis. Elaine Maslin found out more. Handling foundations and transition pieces…
Considerations for pipe-in-pipe designs for high-pressure, high-temperature fields were set out by Subsea 7 engineers at this year’s OTC. Jerry Lee takes a look. Subsea 7’s flowline solutions (from left: bundle…
John Bradbury takes a look at activity in the North Sea – across Norway and the UK. Johan Sverdrup - an artist's impression. Image from Statoil. By the middle of 2016 it was evident…
First gas on one of the largest recent discoveries in the North Sea has been delayed, according to partner Centrica Energy. The firm said that first gas on the four-platform Cygnus development project in the southern North Sea is now expected in Q4 this year…
BP, operator of the Tangguh LNG (liquified natural gas) project, awarded Saipem a contract for offshore work related to the Tangguh LNG Expansion Project. The award is for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of offshore facilities…
McDermott International and Nakilat-Keppel Offshore Marine (N-KOM) have signed a memorandum of understanding for an exclusive cooperation agreement to pursue offshore engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) projects within Qatari waters…
Norwegian independent Det norske has marked the installation of the Ivar Aasen development topside. The 15,000-tonne topside has now been installed on the jacket, in two lifts using the Saipem 7000, on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…
SapuraKencana’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SapuraKencana Mexicana has been awarded a contract worth approximately US$113 million from Pemex. The contract is for the procurement and construction of a 36in, 18km-long sour gas pipeline (KMZ…
Norwegian independent Det norske is gearing up for imminent offshore module installation works on its Ivar Aasen development offshore Norway this month. The firm, which is due to become part of new firm Aker BP, says the the project is on time and budget with planned start-up in Q4…
Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand) (MSST) has been awarded a contract to provide technical support service personnel to a national offshore oil and gas engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning company with large-scale projects internationally…