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EEW SPC Delivers 'Heaviest' Monopile for Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm

Aug 12, 2022

Germany's EEW SPC has delivered a 1,421-tonne monopile for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm, breaking its record for the heaviest monopile set six years ago when EEW SPC manufactured the 1302.5t monopile for the Veja Mate project at its Rostock site…

Sembcorp Marine Cuts Losses as Easing COVID Curbs Aid Project Deliveries

Aug 11, 2022

Singapore's Sembcorp Marine Ltd (Sembmarine) said on Friday its half-year loss narrowed 78% from a year earlier, as the oil rig builder finished delayed projects after pandemic curbs were eased while also benefiting from cost management.The…

Johan Castberg FPSO Suffered Minor Damage in Fire, Equinor Says

Aug 11, 2022

Equinor's Johan Castberg floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel suffered only minor damage during a fire on Wednesday, and the project's timeline will not be affected, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.The vessel is under construction at a shipyard in western Norway…

Shell Hires Maersk Supply Service to Fix FPSO Mooring Lines in Brazil

Aug 11, 2022

Danish offshore vessel owner, Maersk Supply Service has won a contract with Shell in Brazil for the mooring line remediation of the FPSO Fluminense, located off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.The scope of the project includes remediation work on two of the Fluminense FPSO's mooring lines…

Saipem Nets $900M Deal to Deliver Angola's First Non-associated Gas Project

Aug 11, 2022

Italian oilfield services firm Saipem said Thursday it had secured three new engineering and construction contracts - one onshore and two offshore - in Angola. The total value is around $900 million.The contracts are with the New Gas Consortium…

TotalEnergies, Corio Tap ODE as Owner’s Engineer for 1.5GW North Sea Wind Farm

Aug 11, 2022

Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has won a contract to deliver Owner’s Engineer support to the pre-FEED stage of the 1.5GW Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm in the Southern North Sea. The Owner’s Engineer contract was awarded to ODE by Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind (ODOW)…

Trell & Trine Project: Aker BP Awards 'Sizeable' Contracts to Aker Solutions, Subsea 7

Aug 11, 2022

Norwegian offshore engineering and construction company Aker Solutions, and offshore installation firm Subsea 7, have won 'sizeable' contracts from Aker BP to assist with the development of Trell & Trine offshore discoveries, located in the Alvheim area of the North Sea…

Fire Breaks Out Aboard Equinor's Castberg FPSO at Norway Yard

Aug 10, 2022

A fire broke out on Wednesday aboard oil major Equinor's Johan Castberg floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is under construction at a shipyard in Norway, public broadcaster NRK reported.Workers were evacuated and there were no reports of injuries…

Wood Thilsted Wins Offshore Wind Engineering Work in U.S.

Aug 10, 2022

Engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted has been appointed as a detailed design engineer for US Wind’s MarWin project, the company’s first offshore wind project to be constructed off the coast of Maryland, U.S..Apart from being responsible for the delivery of the detailed foundation design for MarWin…

McDermott Nets Offshore Pipeline, Cable FEED Deal in Qatar

Aug 10, 2022

Offshore engineering and construction firm McDermott has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by QatarEnergy for the North Field South (NFS) Offshore Pipelines and Power/FO cables Project. The new contract is in addition…

Scana's Subseatec Wins 'Sizeable' Riser Joints Order

Aug 10, 2022

Scana's Subseatec has won a contract with an international energy company for the delivery of riser joints. The joints are intended for an offshore field development. Scana said the deal was a sizeable contract for the company, meaning it is worth between NOK 10 million and NOK 50 million…

ExxonMobil Taps Acorn for EIA Work on Fifth Offshore Development in Guyana

Aug 09, 2022

ExxonMobil has hired Acorn International, an environmental and risk management consultancy with offices in Boston and Houston, to perform an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and lead the public consultation program for the Uaru Project…

Vattenfall Taps Aberdeen-based Engineering Firm for Offshore Wind Service Work

Aug 09, 2022

Aberdeen-based PD&MS Group has won a three-year operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with Vattenfall to support its offshore wind farms in Europe.The contract, of an undisclosed sum, will see the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) specialist providing support…

MODEC, Toyo to Form Engineering JV for Large-Scale FPSOs

Aug 08, 2022

FPSO leasing specialist MODEC and Toyo Engineering Corporation have executed a deal to form a joint venture company for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) business of FPSO vessels. The establishment of the joint venture company…

SBM Orders Seventh Fast4Ward Hull

Aug 05, 2022

Dutch FPSO leasing specialist SBM Offshore has ordered its latest Fast4Ward multi-purpose floater hull as it marked a new record level order book at $31.1 billion. The latest Fast4Ward floating production unit (FPU) is expected to be delivered in 2024…

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