McDermott International recently completed the load-out and installation of the first jacket fully fabricated by the company at its recently opened Dammam fabrication yard in Saudi Arabia. The Safaniya 264 jacket is part of McDermott’s…
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…
The first topsides unit built for the Shah Deniz stage 2 platforms is now en route from the Azfen fabrication yard in Bibi-Heybat to the Shah Deniz contract area in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan. BP announced 1 June that the topsides transportation…
Elaine Maslin dives deeper into the all-electric subsea equation. The K5F-3 subsea all-electric Xmas tree from OneSubsea.Photo from TEP NL (Total E&P Netherlands). All-electric subsea installations have been on the agenda for years…
Image of Olav Henriksen (SVP Projects, Aker BP, left) and Pieter Heerema (Projects, Allseas) at the signing ceremony in Stavanger 29 May 2017. Image from Aker BP. Allseas, via Excalibur Marine Contractors…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has signed framework agreements with 11 supplier firms representing various technology areas to ensure sufficient capacity to be an even better champion for developing new fields and improving recovery from producing fields…
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…
Siemens will deliver advanced digital solutions for Aker BP’s future field development projects as part of a long-term partnership between the two companies focused on the design, supply and installation of electrical, instrumentation, control…
Total has started production from the offshore Badamyar project, 220km south of Yangon, Myanmar. The project will enable an extension of the Yadana gas field’s 8 Bcm per year production plateau beyond 2020. The Badamyar project involved installing a new wellhead platform…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) have given Statoil consent to put the Gina Krog facility and associated pipeline system into service. In June 2016, Statoil received partial consent from the PSA to put into service the accommodation quarters…
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd. (SMD) has signed a contract with Van Oord for the manufacture and delivery of a QTrencher 1600. This contract follows the successful deployment of SMD’s QTrencher 1400 on Van Oord’s Gemini Wind Farm. Scheduled for delivery in Q1 2018…
Engineering teams from UK-based subsea connector specialists Hydratight and Norwegian technologists Connector Subsea Solutions (CSS) have completed a milestone deepwater pipeline repair in Western Australia. A 4in MEG line, owned by a major national oil company (NOC)…
Norwegian oilfield services company Beerenberg has won a hook-up contract with Aker Solutions worth US$23.4 million (NOK 200 million) plus options for two installations on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. Beerenberg’s scope of work will include scaffolding…
Wärtsilä will supply the engines and other propulsion machinery for what it says will be the first LNG-powered offshore construction vessel, being built at the Cosco shipyard in China for Belgium's Dredging International (DEME). 'This…
Russian's Lukoil says its Phase 2 Vladimir Filanovsky LSP-2 ice-resistant topsides have set sail for the Caspian Sea. Production from the project is due at the end of this year. Phase 2 of Vladimir Filanovsky field development provides for the construction of a fixed ice-resistant platform…
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