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Petrofac gains Chevron North Sea extension

Oct 05, 2017

Petrofac has secured a contract extension from Chevron North Sea for the provision of engineering services; an agreement it has held since 2014.  The 12-month agreement, which comes into effect this month, will involve the continued provision…

Heerema inks four platform project for southern North Sea

Oct 03, 2017

North Sea-focused Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has signed a letter of intent with Heerema Fabrication Group for front-end engineering and design (FEED), and engineering procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of up to four normally unmanned installation platforms (NUIs)…

Ophir awards Fortuna FLNG SURF EPCIC

Oct 02, 2017

Ophir Energy has awarded an upstream construction for its Fortuna floating LNG project - west Africa's first deepwater FLNG project - to Schlumberger company OneSubsea and Subsea 7's Subsea Integration Alliance. The contract is an engineering…

Aasta Hansteen topsides due to sail for Norway

Sep 26, 2017

Statoil's Aasta Hansteen spar platform topside has been loaded on to a heavy transport vessel and is set to sail for Norway in coming days. The 24,000-tonne topside will take two months to travel from Hyundai Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea to Norway…

Aker inks Troll module FEED

Sep 21, 2017

Aker Solutions has won a contract from Statoil for front-end engineering and design of a new module to increase output at Troll, one of Norway's largest natural gas fields. The order includes an option for engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the module…

TechnipFMC inks Lancaster iEPCI

Sep 15, 2017

TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract from Hurricane Energy for the Lancaster early production system (EPS), west of Shetland. Hurricane took final investment devision on the project yesterday…

PG Flow Solutions to supply Dvalin CIP

Sep 11, 2017

Norway-based PG Flow Solutions has won a contract from Aibel to provide a chemical injection package (CIP) for the Dvalin tie-in to Heidrun topside EPCI project. PG Flow Solutions’ scope of work is a 8.5m x 3.8m x 3m CIP, which will be…

OE17: Aker inks Buzzard Phase 2 FEED

Sep 07, 2017

Aker Solutions secured a front-end engineering and design contract from Nexen Petroleum UK for a second phase development of the UK’s highest producing oil field.  The study on the Buzzard field development includes the design of the subsea manifolds and pipelines…

Wood Group bags Ichthys subsea deal

Sep 06, 2017

Wood Group secured a new, five-year contract with Inpex Operations Australia (Inpex Australia) to provide subsea engineering services for the integrity of the Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Western Australia. Image from Inpex…

Further Johan Sverdrup costs shed

Sep 04, 2017

Phase 1 of the massive Johan Sverdrup project offshore Norway is now close to 60% complete, ahead of schedule and even further under the original estimated budget, says partners Aker BP and Lundin. In statements released this morning…

Shell awards Aker Solutions brownfield agreement

Sep 01, 2017

Aker Solutions secured a framework agreement from Shell to provide brownfield modifications services and maintenance support for the Nyhamna and Draugen facilities in Norway. The agreement has a fixed period of four years and may be extended by up to seven years…

SBM lands Fast4Ward contract

Aug 09, 2017

SBM Offshore revealed that it has inked a deal for its Fast4Ward standardization program, signing a contract in June for the first newbuild hull with China Shipbuilding Trading Co. (CSTC) and the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) shipyard…

Archer bags Repsol Gyda P&A contract

Aug 09, 2017

Repsol Norge has awarded Archer Ltd. a four-year contract for plugging and abandonment (P&A) operations at the company’s Gyda platform in the Southern North Sea. Gyda. Image from Repsol. The scope of work includes P&A of the wells…

Let’s get connected

Aug 01, 2017

Sometimes seen as the weak link in the system, subsea connectors have come a long way. With new challenges, larger throughput requirements, new materials and methods this is an ever-evolving technology, says Hydro Group Systems’ Bill Mildon…

Investment and new chairman, directors at Aquaterra

Jul 24, 2017

Offshore engineering firm Aquaterra Energy has secured a multi-million pound investment from EV Private Equity as the company gears up for service expansion and new technology launches. The deal is the first to be agreed following EV’s…

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