Engineering News


Ampelmann supplies Gulf of Mexico

Aug 18, 2015

Dutch motion-compsenated gangway firm Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by Boa Marine Services (BMS) for a gangway solution for the ExxonMobil-operated Gulf of Mexico Julia project. The work scope of Ampelmann comprises transferring…

Amec inks Upper Zakum extension work

Aug 18, 2015

Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded an extension to its existing project management consultancy (PMC) contract for the UZ750 project in the Upper Zakum (UZ) field, 84km northwest of Abu Dhabi.  The contract was award by the Zakum Development Co…

Wood Group revenues slide 20%

Aug 18, 2015

Engineering firm Wood Group has since its revenues slide 20% to US$3 billion as it suffers from the reduction in activity in the oil and gas sector caused by operators tightening their belts amid low oil prices. The firm, which has reduced its headcount 13% since December…

Shell, COSCOL sign transport contract

Aug 17, 2015

COSCO Shipping Co. Ltd. (COSCOL) has signed a contract with Shell Offshore Inc. for the transportation of the Appomattox semisubmersible offshore platform hull from South Korea to Ingleside, Texas. This contract was awarded as part of an enterprise frame agreement between Shell and COSCOL…

BP, Emerson extend contract

Aug 17, 2015

BP and Emerson have signed a global agreement for Emerson Process Management to provide automation technologies and aftercare services for BP’s upstream oil and gas operations. The new 10-year agreement extends the existing arrangement between the companies…

Positive MMO market fundamentals

Aug 17, 2015

Today’s oil and gas environment has been impacted by a myriad of issues including restrained capital spending, curtailed investment and employment cuts for struggling companies across the supply chain. Recovery from current market conditions is expected to be slow…

WGK inks FEED deal for Vietnam TLP

Aug 17, 2015

Wood Group has been awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the subsea development of the Talisman Energy Ca Rong Do (Red Emperor in Vietnamese) field offshore Vietnam; estimated to contain around 67 MMboe.  Wood…

Oil spill recovery system sets record

Aug 14, 2015

Norwegian offshore player Egersund Group recently set a new oil spill recovery record when its newly developed Marine Oil Spill (MOS) Sweeper system managed to recover 96.4% of oil released in a North Sea exercise.     Image…

Lamprell seeking new CEO

Aug 14, 2015

Dubai-based fabrication and engineering firm Lamprell's CEO James Moffat (pictured) is to retire 30 June 2016. Lamprell says a search to find his successor is under way.  Moffat joined Lamprell in 2013, at a time when it had been under financial strain…

Borets acquires two VPs

Aug 12, 2015

Image: Phyllis Mitchell/Borets Borets, provider of the engineering, manufacturing, sales and service of electric submersible pump (ESP) systems, announced that Phyllis Mitchell has been named vice president of human resources and Kent C…

Trendsetter completes containment project

Aug 12, 2015

Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well…

First Subsea completes Goliat installation

Aug 12, 2015

Subsea connector specialist First Subsea, has successfully completed the installation of bend stiffener connections for gas lift and production risers, power cables and umbilicals, for the Goliat FPSO. Operated by ENI Norge, the…

InterMoor completes Heidelberg hook-up

Aug 12, 2015

InterMoor provided Anadarko Petroleum Corp. with rapid hook-up services for their Heidelberg truss spar in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico after stepping in at short notice for another contractor. The company hooked up the 80,000 b/d spar to three mooring lines in Green Canyon block 860…

OceanWorks wins subsea contract

Aug 11, 2015

Safe Marine Transfer (SMT), under an initiative to develop a “Deepwater Permanent Subsea Pressure Compensated Chemical Storage and Injection System” has awarded OceanWorks a contract for a substantial engineering effort to define, engineer and quantify the equipment required…

Keppel O&M secures FPSO conversion and more

Aug 11, 2015

Keppel Offshore & Marine’s (Keppel O&M) wholly owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard  has secured a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) conversion contract as well as three repair, upgrade and modification contracts worth a total of about US$89 million (S$125 million)…

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