Meg Chesshyre talks to Heerema Fabrication Group CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven about the firm’s latest projects. Cygnus PU sail away. Photos from Heerema Fabrication Group. Heerema…
Van Oord has been taking its engineering expertise in the dredging sector and applying it to the oil and gas business – with much success. Elaine Maslin reports on a first in deepwater and a new market. Van Oord’s new rock installation vessel…
Hurricane Energy has proven commercial oil can flow from its fractured basement oil reservoirs West of Shetland – it’s next job is finding an economical solution to get it to market. Elaine Maslin reports. Artist's…
A greenfield platform was a more effective option over brownfield modifications on Shell’s Leman Alpha complex in the North Sea. Elaine Maslin explains how Dutch expertise made it a reality. The Leman AC platform engineering drawing rendering…
An approach to modeling and simulation combining subsea electrical and fluid systems can facilitate a better understanding of the interaction of long-distance tiebacks supplied by step-outs. ABS’ Milton Korn explains. Subsea pipeline…
Audubon Companies’ Denis Taylor and LLOG Exploration’s Craig Mullett discuss changing design considerations for condensate stabilization on the Delta House FPS in the Gulf of Mexico. Delta House…
Schlumberger and IBM announced that they have teamed up to provide integrated services to upstream oil and gas customers that they claim will improve the business impact of production operations projects. The offering combines Schlumberger’s production optimization services…
Equalizer International, a designer and developer of flange maintenance tools for the energy sector, will launch its newest range of tools at Offshore Europe 2015. The NutSplitter range, designed specifically for pipe-line bolted flange joints…
LQT Industries, a full-service provider of accommodation facilities, design-build construction services, and support services to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a contract for the construction of an E-House, a temporary living quarters building…
Shell, the operator of the BC-10 field, has awarded a contract to Helix Energy Solutions Group’s robotics subsidiary, Canyon Offshore, to trench and bury over 40km of pipe in 1675m of water in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. The work…
Houston-based McDermott received its largest single award in the history of its Middle East operations today (27 August) by Saudi Aramco for brownfield work off Saudi Arabia. Signing the LTA. Image from McDermott…
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a three-year integrated services contract (ISC) by Maersk Oil covering its North Sea assets. The value of the contract has not been announced. The integrated services will start in September 2015 and will run for three years…
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has produced a new innovative seal for a 'ground-breaking' valve designed by Schoolhill Hydraulic Engineering for BP’s Shah Deniz field. The high-flow, high-integrity, safety critical subsea quick exhaust valve (QEV)…
Songa Offshore has today taken delivery of Songa Endurance from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. Songa Endurance will shortly depart South Korea en-route to Norway to start an eight-year drilling contract with Statoil…
On 21 August the Polarled gas pipeline crossed 66° and 33 minutes north of the equator becoming the first pipeline to take the Norwegian gas infrastructure across the Arctic Circle. This will open a new gas highway from the Norwegian Sea to Europe…