The North Caspian Operating Co. (NCOC) awarded Saipem a US$1.8 billion engineering and construction contract to build two pipelines for the Kashagan field project, offshore Kazakhstan. Image from NCOC…
Alan Thorpe recently paid a visit to Singapore’s shipyards. He gives a rundown of some of the current floating production and storage unit conversions underway in Singapore and in Malaysia. The…
Aqualis ASA and Tristein AS have merged into Aqualis Offshore AS. Aqualis ASA acquired Norwegian company Tristein AS in April 2014. Tristein has since operated as a stand-alone entity as part of the Aqualis Group. Now the company is…
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has secured a contract with Woodside to provide the front end engineering design (FEED) of the flowline system, and associated procurement support, for the proposed Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) development for the North West Shelf (NWS) Project…
Golder Associates’ Ken Been explains the best approach to geotechnical engineering and pipeline construction when facing scours and pits in the Arctic ice. Fig. 1: Ice scouring. Over the coming decades…
EMAS AMC secured multiple new awards valued at more than US$65 million. Scope of work includes project management, engineering, and transportation and installation works for a floating production storage offloading (FPSO) vessel in Africa…
BG Group has signed a six-year global alliance with KBR to provide technical support, services (in both the pre-FEED and FEED stages), and project management expertise across BG Group’s global upstream portfolio. Under the agreement, which has options to extend up to 10 years…
Danish engineering house Ramboll Oil & Gas is to perform detailed design work for the two jackets for Maersk Oil's ultra-high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) UK North Sea Culzean field. The jackets are for a central processing facility…
Distributed offshore engineering users of SACS V5.7 are benefiting from the extended information mobility provided through the software’s integration with the ProjectWise project delivery solution as well as enhanced integration with both MOSES and AutoPIPE…
InterMoor completed a mooring and foundation installation campaign for bpTT’s Juniper gas project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Image from InterMoor. According to InterMoor, this is…
Power Jacks is launching a suite of bespoke subsea electro-mechanical actuators and gearboxes. Power Jacks U-series. From Power Jacks. Power Jacks says its integrated U-Series range…
J+S created a bespoke engineering solution to terminate HV connectors complete with pigtails onto an existing umbilical. The solution required replacement of a single 3-phase connector with separate phase connections to each core. J+S enabled an in-field assembly onto the existing umbilical…
Statoil has continued a contract award spree on its giant Norwegian North Sea Johan Sverdrup project, awarding Aker Solutions a US$590 million detailed engineering contract. Johan Sverdrup, which sits in on the Utsira High, 140km west of Stavanger…
The University of Houston (UH) will lead a national research center for subsea engineering and other offshore energy development issues, including research and technology to improve the sustainable and safe development of energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico…
DONG Energy provides this time-lapse video of the Herje topsides construction process, which took place from April to October 2014. Hejre is Dong Energy’s first high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) development and is expected to begin production in 2017 with an estimated 170 MMboe…
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