A new study led by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate will look into the benefits and disadvantages of wellhead platforms in a bid to push industry to consider alternatives to subsea tie-backs. The idea is one Norway's Statoil has been considering for sometime…
Singapore’s fabrication and engineering service provide TRIYARDS Holdings made a 59% year-on-year jump in net attributable profit to US$8.4 million in the fourth quarter, driven mainly by liftboat construction, the company said. Work done on liftboats…
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Pharaonic Petroleum Co. for the development of the East Nile Delta Phase 3 Project (END-3). The scope includes installation engineering, procurement and fabrication of rigid spools, and installation of pipeline…
BP's Glen Lyon floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) is nearly finished and due to sail away to the North Sea next month, BP has said in posts on social media. The firm, which posted a video of the naming ceremony…
Dubai-based fabrication and engineering firm Lamprell has promoted Niall O'Connell to chief operating officer in its latest staffing change. In August, the firm announced CEO James Moffatt, who joined Lamprell in 2013, is to retire in June next year…
UK-based SURF contractor Ocean Installer has been awarded a Regional Framework Agreement with BP for subsea work in the Gulf of Mexico region. The agreement covers subsea fabrication, transportation and installation of offshore facilities…
Spanish yard Dragados Offshore and Norway’s Kvaerner Verdal have won the latest construction contracts on the Johan Sverdrup mega-project. Statoil, operator on the multi-million dollar development, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…
2H Offshore has been awarded a contract by Chevron to manage a production riser weld qualification testing program. Image from Chevron. The aim of the development of 20,000 psi…
Ezra’s subsea services division, EMAS AMC, finalized a contract with BHP Billiton for the Angostura phase 3 development offshore Trinidad and Tobago in the eastern Trinidadian sector of the Venezuela basin. The total scope of work includes the project management…
Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine has won the engineering, procurement and construction contract for Maersk Oil's US$4.5 billion Culzean development in the North Sea. Under the $1 billion contract, the firm's subsidiary SMOE will build the development's central processing facility…
Getting to grips with the condition of older assets can be a difficult task. Stefano Copello outlines RINA’s approach to revitalization. The re-used jacket of the Nenè platform, owned by Eni Congo…
Meg Chesshyre talks to Heerema Fabrication Group CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven about the firm’s latest projects. Cygnus PU sail away. Photos from Heerema Fabrication Group. Heerema…
Danos has been selected by Shell to fabricate three boarding valve skid assemblies for its deepwater Appomattox project. The project, which will engage five Danos divisions – coatings, fabrication, instrumentation and electrical, project management and procurement – will begin immediately…
Image: Zhuhai skidway and assembly yard/Fluor Fluor Corp. and Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC) have formed a new joint venture, COOEC Fluor Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (CFHI)…
Det norske is ramping up activity and production on its Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The FPSO (pictured), which produces Alvheim field (comprising the Kneler…
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