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Shell Bids to Build Dutch Offshore Wind Farms

Mar 13, 2019

Royal Dutch Shell has teamed up with energy company Eneco and builder Van Oord in a bid to build two wind farms in the Dutch part of the North Sea, the companies said on Wednesday.The tender for the wind farms, with total capacity of 750 megawatts (MW)…

RDS Tallies Design Engineering Contract

Mar 12, 2019

KCA Deutag’s engineering and design solutions provider RDS has been awarded a new contract for the detailed design of a drilling facility for an offshore platform.The contract, which marks RDS’s first detail design award for a new greenfield platform since the oil price decline in 2014…

Platform Installed at D28 Off Malaysia

Mar 12, 2019

A lightweight, conductor-supported, minimum facility wellhead platform has been installed in 35 m water depth for the D28 oilfield Phase 1 project offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, for OceanMight Sdn Bhd on behalf of PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd, 2H Offshore announced on Tuesday…

Chevron to Use Subsea Compression at Jansz-Io

Mar 12, 2019

Aker Solutions announced Tuesday it has been awarded a master contract to support the delivery of a subsea compression system for the Chevron Australia-operated Jansz-Io field offshore Australia, marking the first time the technology will be used outside of Norway…

TechnipFMC Acquires DSV Deep Discoverer

Mar 11, 2019

TechnipFMC announced Monday it has acquired a newbuild diving support vessel (DSV) Deep Discoverer. The vessel will primarily service the North Sea diving construction and inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) markets.The company signed a…

BP Dishes Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Contracts

Mar 11, 2019

Oil major BP has awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts to services providers McDermott International and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project…

Awilco Orders Drilling Rig from Keppel

Mar 08, 2019

UK based Awilco Drilling has exercised an option to have a second mid-water semisubmersible drilling rig built by Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine, the builder announced on Friday.The option, which Keppel said is worth about $425 million…

Digital Assisted Monitoring & Maintenance

Mar 08, 2019

The offshore industry continues to find new ways to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to become more efficient, improve safety levels, and increase production. Stress Engineering Services is leveraging those technologies along…

First US FLNG Project Moving Ahead

Mar 07, 2019

Plans to construct a U.S. floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel in China, which may also provide funding and buy part of its output, are moving ahead despite trade tension between the countries, an executive at one of the partners said on Thursday…

Subsea 7 Bags Yet Another Deal in Africa

Mar 07, 2019

Subsea engineering, construction and services company, Subsea 7 has added yet one more feather in its Africa offshore cap after winning an engineering studies contract with a possibility of extending it to engineering, procurement, construction…

Subsea 7 Wins Three Woodside Contracts

Mar 06, 2019

Australia's Woodside Petroleum in recent months has awarded several oil and gas engineering contracts to Subsea 7 for two projects offshore Australia and one off Senegal, the offshore services company said on Wednesday.The three contracts awarded…

DOF Subsea Tallies Multiple Contracts

Mar 05, 2019

DOF Subsea announced Tuesday it has been awarded various contracts, securing utilization for vessels in the subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) projects segment.The company said its Atlantic region has been awarded a contract by…

Mariner Oilfield Startup Delayed

Mar 05, 2019

The start-up of Equinor's Mariner heavy oilfield in the British North Sea is expected to be delayed again until the fourth-quarter of 2019, two sources familiar with the project told Reuters.The field, discovered in 1981 east of the Shetland Islands…

Sparrows Provides Cable Handling for Hornsea One

Mar 04, 2019

Sparrows Group Cable and Pipe Lay Solutions (CPLS) division has delivered its largest renewables project to date as part of three contracts awarded through VBMS; DEME Offshore, formerly known as Tideway; and DeepOcean. The work scope, part of…

TechnipFMC Wins EPCIC Contract for Tortue/Ahmeyim FPSO

Mar 01, 2019

TechnipFMC announced Friday it has been awarded a contract from BP for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to be deployed for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project offshore West Africa…

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