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DONG removes WWII bombs from Norfolk coast

Oct 13, 2015

More than 40 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II have been safely detonated or removed from the Norfolk coast, having been discovered on the export cable route for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm.   Image…

Fugro wins Blue Stream pipeline work

Oct 12, 2015

Fugro has been awarded a contract by Blue Stream Pipeline Co. for the provision of survey support vessels and associated survey services to perform the 2015 external pipeline inspection for the offshore, shore approach, and dry section components of the Blue Stream Pipeline System…

BP's Glen Lyon close to sailaway

Oct 12, 2015

BP's Glen Lyon floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) is nearly finished and due to sail away to the North Sea next month, BP has said in posts on social media. The firm, which posted a video of the naming ceremony…

New COO for Lamprell

Oct 12, 2015

Dubai-based fabrication and engineering firm Lamprell has promoted Niall O'Connell to chief operating officer in its latest staffing change. In August, the firm announced CEO James Moffatt, who joined Lamprell in 2013, is to retire in June next year…

Saipem racks up $680 million in new contracts

Oct 09, 2015

Saipem announced it has won new engineering and construction contracts cumulatively worth approximately US$680 million (€600 million). Included are contracts awarded by Saudi Aramco and Eni. The contract with Saudi Aramco is an EPCI job…

Wärtsilä 31 selected for new icebreaker

Oct 09, 2015

The recently introduced 4-stroke diesel engine, Wärtsilä 31, has been selected to power a new generation icebreaker currently under construction at the PJSC Vyborg Shipyard. The ship is being built on behalf of FSUE Atomflot, the enterprise of ROSATOM…

Qatar Petroleum awards McDermott EPCI project

Oct 08, 2015

McDermott International has been awarded a brownfield project by Qatar Petroleum for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of four wellhead jackets. Installation of two jackets in the Bul-Hanine field offshore…

Statoil awards two Johan Sverdrup jacket contracts

Oct 08, 2015

Statoil has awarded contracts for two Johan Sverdrup jackets to Kvaerner Verdal and Dragados Offshore.  The contract awarded to Kvaerner Verdal has a value of approximately US$122.8 million (NOK 1 billion) and covers engineering, fabrication…

Construction yards win prizes

Oct 08, 2015

Spanish yard Dragados Offshore and Norway’s Kvaerner Verdal have won the latest construction contracts on the Johan Sverdrup mega-project. Statoil, operator on the multi-million dollar development, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…

TDW replaces joints simultaneously in GOM

Oct 02, 2015

T.D. Williamson (TDW) was contracted by an operator in the Gulf of Mexico to replace two flexible joints connecting two steel catenary risers on a tension leg platform 120km (75mi) off the coast of Louisiana. TDW performed simultaneous…

Technip gets Stones contract

Oct 02, 2015

Image: Deep Blue/Technip Shell awarded Technip a contract for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Stones project. Included in the service are two subsea production tie-backs to the floating production…

Fugro rebrands geotechnical companies

Oct 02, 2015

Fugro has integrated and rebranded its geotechnical companies under the name Fugro GeoServices Ltd. The renaming completes the integration of Fugro Seacore, Fugro Engineering Services, EM Drilling, Fugro Loadtest, Fugro Instrumentation & Monitoring and Fugro Aperio…

All subsea options

Oct 01, 2015

Most of the building blocks are in place for the all-subsea solution. But do they offer an attractive proposition? Elaine Maslin looks at DNV GL’s current thinking. Operations during the Åsgard…

Bringing Perla online

Oct 01, 2015

Shreeram Lom, Aaron Rampersad, and Juan Martínez, of Repsol, discuss the Perla field development, which came online offshore Venezuela in July. Fig. 1: Topside. Images from Repsol. The Perla field…

Oceaneering wins vessel contract off India

Sep 30, 2015

Oceaneering International announced that its subsidiary Oceaneering International GmbH has entered into a two-year, subsea field support vessel services agreement with an oil and gas company in India for use of the Island Pride. Anticipated…

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