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Technip gets BP Thunder Horse gig

May 12, 2015

BP awarded Technip a lump sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit in the Gulf of Mexico…

Red Marine develops subsea clamp solution

May 11, 2015

Red Marine developed and delivered the modular umbilical clamp system, made up of six purely mechanical elements to FMC Technologies.  Image of the modular umbilical clamp system. From Red Marine…

Saudi Aramco selects WorleyParsons

May 11, 2015

Saudi Aramco has awarded Australia's WorleyParsons a contract to provide project management services for its offshore program. WorleyParsons has been managing the Offshore PMC contract for Saudi Aramco for the last 12 years, which has employed in excess of 400 people in recent years…

Subsea 7 inks Maria EPCI

May 08, 2015

Subsea 7 has been award of a US$300 million pipeline and subsea contract for the Wintershall Norge Maria field development. Maria is located in the Norwegian Sea at 300m water depth. The contract consists of engineering, procurement…

Wood Group completes MWCC vessels

May 07, 2015

Wood Group Mustang (WGM) completed engineering services for the two Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) vessels that can be deployed in the event of a deepwater well control incident in the US Gulf of Mexico. Services provided included the follow-on design engineering…

Aibel awarded Maria work

May 06, 2015

Aibel was awarded a US$114.3 million engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for work related to planned water injection from the Heidrun platform to the Wintershall Norge-operated Maria field. The Maria field is in the Norwegian Sea…

OTC15: GE Oil & Gas expands software portfolio

May 05, 2015

GE Oil & Gas is expanding its oil and gas business, according to a group of GE executives speaking at this week's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. The company is focusing more closely on its clients’ needs and is expanding…

OTC15: 3D printing under the spotlight

May 05, 2015

Lloyd’s Register Energy is inviting companies from America, Canada and Brazil to take part of a joint industry project (JIP) focusing on additive manufacturing at this week's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. Additive manufacturing…

OTC15: Technology guidance note launched

May 05, 2015

Lloyd’s Register Energy issued a new risk-based Technology Qualification Guidance Note to minimize risks and uncertainty of novel designs, concepts or applications not covered by existing rules, industry codes or best practice. Lloyd’s…

AspenTech unveils aspenONE

May 04, 2015

Aspen Technology, Inc. announced the general availability of aspenONE Engineering and aspenONEManufacturing and Supply Chain Version 8.8 software. Developed for firms in the oil, gas, chemicals, engineering and construction and other process industries…

OTC15: Lloyds, MaxGrip join forces

May 04, 2015

UK-based compliance, integrity and risk consultancy firm Lloyd’s Register Energy is forming a strategic alliance with MaxGrip.  The alliance, announced during this week's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, will see the development…

OTC15: Tata unveils SAWL pipe milestone

May 04, 2015

Tata Steel says it has become the first company to manufacture a submerged arc welded longitudinal (SAWL) line pipe installed through reeling method in the North Sea. Manufactured at Tata Steel’s Hartlepool 42in. UOE mill, the pipe was…

Apollo joins marginal field initiative

May 03, 2015

ABT Oil & Gas (ABTOG) has signed a Collaboration Agreement Aberdeen based engineering firm Apollo Offshore Engineering on its marginal field delivery consortium. Apollo will join the Marginal Field Delivery Consortium providing expertise…

Looking further afield

May 01, 2015

Italian engineering companies could offer competitive engineering, procurement and construction services in the Mediterranean Sea, should activity pick up, but West Africa is currently the hot spot for contracts. Litchendjili…

Safety from a design consideration

May 01, 2015

Preventing corrosion is necessary to avoiding production failures. Leokadia Rucinski and Genesis’ Binder Singh provide details. Fig. 1: A collage of somewhat unusual corrosion phenomena, many of…

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