Aker BP has awarded contracts to Subsea 7 and Aker Solutions for work on its Ærfugl gas field subsea tieback in the Norwegian Sea. The Ærfugl gas field development, previously known as Snadd, about 210km west of Sandnessjøen in the Norwegian Sea…
Keppel Offshore & Marine, through its subsidiaries, has inked new contracts froom Petrobras and SOFEC, worth in total about US$96.22 (S$130 million). Keppel Shipyard's contract from SOFEC is for the fabrication of a turret mooring…
Danish oil firm Maersk Oil has published a video with timelapse footage and interviews with key people, showing the main 2017 milestones in the UK North Sea Culzean development. The Culzean field - discovered in 2008 - is in the UK central North Sea…
Dutch firm Jan De Nul Group and Belgium's Smulders worked together to build two gravity-based foundations (GBF) for the high voltage station of the Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak. The foundations, weighing 10,000-tonne and 8000-tonne each…
A US$3.36 billion (DKK21 billion) investment into a redevelopment of the Tyra gas field on the Danish Continental Shelf has been approved by the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC), led by Maersk Oil. The move will see the largest oil…
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering has been awarded a contract from India's ONGC for Pipeline Replacement Project-4 worth about US$194 million. The project is part of ONGC’s strategy to replace some of its well fluid, gas lift and water…
A UAE-based subsidiary of Malaysia's Eversendai Corp. has won an offshore fabrication project for Saudi Aramco. Eversendai Offshore received the project award, fabricating jacket structures, through Italy's Saipem, which is one of…
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)…
Tata Steel has announced a near £2 million program of investments at its 20in high frequency induction (HFI) pipe mill in Hartlepool, UK, to offer a new generation of higher strength offshore construction grades. The company’s investment…
Phase 1 of the massive Johan Sverdrup project offshore Norway is now close to 60% complete, ahead of schedule and even further under the original estimated budget, says partners Aker BP and Lundin. In statements released this morning…
Norway's Aibel has started construction work on Dea's US$1.23 billion Norwegian Sea Davlin subsea tieback, with first steel cut on Dvalin module H25 in Haugesund. The Dvalin gas field, previously known as Zidane, discovered in 2010, is…
Dyna-Mac has secured two fabrication projects for a provisional sum of US$30 million from two new customers. The group has been awarded a contract by Cameron Solutions Inc., a Schlumberger company acting through its Process Systems Group…
Aquaterra Energy has designed, fabricated and installed a new Sea Swift platform for PICO Petroleum Integrated Services, the lead contractor for Amal Petroleum Co.’s (AMAPETCO) Amal field in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt. Image of the Sea Swift…
Oceaneering International will support the design, fabrication and installation of ancillary flowline hardware at Royal Dutch Shell’s Appomattox development in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the contract, Oceaneering will procure and install pre-lay and post-lay crossing mattresses…
The first modules for Statoil's UK North Sea Mariner heavy oil field topside have set sail from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering's yard in South Korea. The Mariner field is on the East Shetland Platform, about 95mi (150km) east of Shetland and is being developed via a production…