Falklands-focused explorer Rockhopper Exploration says a funding package for the Sea Lion development is progressing, with the UK's export credit agency and contractors potentially set to step in with cash. Rockhopper says the Premier…
The floating production systems (FPS) market has been heavily impacted by the oil price downturn. Orders declined significantly from 17 in 2014 to four in 2015 and zero in 2016. There have been signs of a recovery in 2017, with seven orders booked year to date…
The field development plan for the Karish and Tanin fields offshore Israel has been approved by the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner. Energean Israel, a 50/50 joint venture between Energean Oil & Gas and Kerogen Capital, plan to drill three wells…
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), has announced a second major contract for Eni East Africa’s (EEA) Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The contract was awarded by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation…
Subsea inspection, maintenance and repair provider, N-Sea, has begun work in the Cameroonian offshore market, via a contract win with Dutch offshore lifting and transportation company, Jumbo Offshore. With phase one completed in mid-July…
TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from Husky Energy for the West White Rose Project in Eastern Canada. The contract covers the supply and installation of subsea equipment including tie-in manifolds…
The Catcher floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has set sail for the UK to work on Premier Oil's Catcher field. The unit, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore, is expected to reach UK waters early in Q4…
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) has been safely moored today in the Ichthys field, 220km off the north coast of Western Australia. The 336m-long FPSO, Ichthys Venturer…
EnQuest’s Kraken heavy oil development in the UK North Sea is taking longer to ramp up than expected with topsides equipment commissioning taking longer than expected. However, full cycle gross project capex on the field is now estimated to be about US$2…
Tendering for a floating production unit and subsea systems for the SNE project offshore Senegal is set to start later this year, Cairn Energy says. The project, which has seen 2C resources increase from 473 MMbbl to 563 MMbbl, with 1 Tcf of gas resource…
The North Sea's first floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), the Petrojarl I, has been delivered to owner Teekay after a two and a half year project to make it ready for its next deployment. The Petrojarl 1, a Tentech 685 design vessel…
The Ichthys Venturer floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility has arrived in Australian waters today (14 August), as Inpex gears up to begin hook-up and commissioning activities. The Ichthys Venturer at the DSME shipyard…
In advance of OE’s 2017 Global FPSO Forum, held in Houston this month, Audrey Leon chats with the forum’s board members to learn what is in store for the FPSO sector and discover how digitalization may play a role. Aerial…
Waxy crude on the Pil and Bue project and topside constraints has led VNG Norge to explore pipe-in-pipe heating systems. Elaine Maslin reports. Statoil’s Njord A facility. Photo by Thomas Sola/Statoil…
Karoon Gas Australia is moving into front-end engineering and design on its Echidna light oil discovery in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The Echidna development concept consists of a leased floating production, storage, and offloading facility…