OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (OGX)), received the Installation License to begin activities related to the development of oil production in BM-C-39 and BM-C-40 blocks, in the Campos Basin. The license was granted by the Brazilian…
Siemens will deliver the key components for a power station that is going to supply the future Yamal LNG production plant in Northern Russia with electricity and heat. The Siemens scope of supply comprises the design, manufacture, factory testing…
Shell Oil Co. reports that the Olympus tension leg platform reached the Mars B field on July 20th, following a 425-mi. tow from Ingleside, Texas. The location, in Mississippi Canyon Block 807, is about 130mi. south of New Orleans. The TLP was safely secured in place last week…
Reservoir Group affiliate, Omega Well Monitoring Canada (OWMC), acquired Planet Services Inc. This acquisition furthers OWMC’s plans to transition from a sales-based company, to a provider of installation and servicing. Planet Services has…
BigLift Shipping's new vessel Happy Sky started its her maiden voyage from Shanghai to Cape Lambert, Australia, on Monday. The vessel is transporting three large modules – 1 x 935 mt / 1 x 818mt / 1 x 777 mt – to be installed as part of the Port B…
Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. awarded Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. a contract to install a Depletion Compression Platform (DCP) for the Malampaya Project off Palawan Island, in The Philippines. The contract is worth about US$60 million and will be completed in 2014.
ExxonMobil chose Oceaneering International Inc. to supply production control umbilicals for its US$4 billion Julia development in the Gulf of Mexico. The order is for a 14mi.-long (22.5 km), electro-hydraulic, steel-tube umbilical. The umbilical will supply hydraulic control fluids…
Saipem has been awarded the contract for the Nigerian subsea development of the Egina field, in a 1700m water depth. It is worth approximately $3 billion. Fabrication will be performed almost entirely in Nigeria and most in the Saipem Rumoulumeni Yard in Port Harcourt…
Subsea 7 will build and operate three, flex-ible, pipe-lay support vessels (PLSV) for Petrobras under three five-year contracts worth about US$1.6 billion. The contracts include project management, engineering and installation of flowlines…
Technip was awarded a lump sum contract for pipelay and subsea installations for the Snøhvit CO2 Solution project by Statoil. Snøhvit field is located about 140km north-west of Hammerfest, Norway. The project will establish an additional well at a new CO2 injection template…
Statoil used the world’s second largest crane vessel, Saipem 7000, to lift and transport the 10,600-ton topsides module from Aibel’s shipyard in Haugesund, Norway on Wednesday, 17 July. Transit to the Gudrun field, in license area PL025 of the Norwegian North Sea…
With the latest seismic and drilling technologies, the Cardamom development is expected to deliver new production from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure. Nearly two decades after setting a world water-depth record for drilling and production…
Using multiple work centers and close project management, L&T delivered the MNP jacket on schedule. Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India was awarded the Mumbai High North (MHN) process platform, living quarters, and process gas compressor module project by ONGC…
A high level of fabrication activity in and around the North Sea is attracting new players. Elaine Maslin reports. Platform fabrication for new installations in North Sea will reach fever pitch this year as a historically high number of facilities are completed for load out…
Bowtech Products Ltd, a global market leader in subsea vision systems, announced on 9 July 2013 that it delivered a £100,000 Chain Stopper Monitoring System to SBM Offshore, to monitor the chain stoppers during installation of the BP Quad 204 Turret Mooring System (TMS)…
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