Dockwise floatover installed the Shwe development topsides using COOEC's HSY229 installation launch barge. First production was in January this year. Photo from Dockwise. Myanmar has been producing hydrocarbons longer than many…
The Benchamas Explorer FSO locaed in the Gulf of Thailand. Photo from Chevron. In order to improve mooring integrity, Chevron and Technip developed a plan to change out the mooring system at its Benchamas FSO off Thailand…
SCF Group (Sovcomflot) and Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) have signed a contract for the construction and long-term operation of three multifunctional icebreaking standby vessels to serve the Sakhalin-2 offshore energy platforms…
The Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation has granted a construction permit to Amsterdam’s South Stream Transport for the South Stream gas pipeline. The pipeline will originate in Russia, pass under the Black Sea…
Premier announced today that the first gas under the Domestic Swap Agreement (DSA) commenced on 1 July. Premier will supply up to an additional 40BBtud (gross) from its operated Natuna Sea Block A offshore Indonesia to the domestic market…
CGG announced its recent inauguration of an open subsurface imaging center in Yangon to service and support anticipated growth in Myanmar’s oil and gas exploration sector. The new center is the first of its kind to be opened in Myanmar by a major international geoscience company…
Stanford Marine announced that its news anchor handling tug, the Stanford Mustang, has been delivered. The Stanford Mustang, a 50m DP2 tug, was specially designed to handle a specific charter in Qatar and was built at Fujian Mawei shipyard in Fuzhou…
Norway's Kvaerner and China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC) have officially opened an engineering joint venture, Kvaerner COOEC Engineering & Technology (KCET), in Qingdao, Shandong, China. KCET will carry out and further develop…
EMAS AMC, announced it has installed its 50th platform for Chevron in the Gulf of Thailand. Under a multi-year contract that began in 2011, EMAS AMC has also successfully laid 376km of subsea pipes utilizing the construction vessel Lewek Champion…
On 5 January 2014, Euronav NV announced it would acquire 15 very large crude carriers (VLCC) from Maersk Tankers Singapore Pte Ltd. Today, Euronav said that eight of the VLCCs have been delivered in the first half of 2014. Deliveries…
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has received a Letter of Award (LOA) from Hess Exploration and Production Malaysia for engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation, hook-up, and commissioning (EPCIC) services for the Bergading complex…
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard and Keppel Singmarine Pte have secured contracts worth a total of S$368 million for North Sea and Caspian Sea projects. Keppel Shipyard has won the contract for the conversion…
Three days after the Berkut platform was installed on the Arkutun-Dagi field, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin gave permission for the platform to begin operations via videoconference. The Arkutun-Dagi field is part of the multi-billion-dollar Sakhalin-1 project…
The naming ceremony of the semisubmersible rig Deepsea Aberdeen was celebrated at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea 25 June. The sea trials will roll out from July-August. Odfjell Drilling…
Eni has entered into a production sharing contract (PSC) with state-owned PetroVietnam for the exploration of Block 122, off eastern Vietnam. The Italian firm’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi, met with PetroVietnam President and CEO, Do Van Hau, in…
