Integrated process solutions provider ProSep will supply one ProDry unit to Statoil for the Troll B ZMP Project. ProSep’s project scope of supply – awarded through Aker Solutions – began in January 2017 and is expected to last approximately five months…
The floating production systems market remains challenging. Will cost-cutting measures made over the past two years help projects reach final investment decision in 2017? Infield’s Catarina Podevyn assesses the market. Johan Castberg…
Aker Solutions completed the acquisition of 70% of Brazilian CSE Mecânica e Instrumentação Ltda. The agreement includes an option for Aker Solutions to purchase the remaining 30% of the company three years from now. The acquisition…
Sturla Magnus has been appointed new executive vice president (EVP) for Structural Solutions and responsible for Kvaerner's yard at Verdal. He will start in his new position 1 April 2017 at the latest. Previous EVP of Structural Solutions…
Finalists for the 2017 Offshore Achievement Awards, supported by OE (Offshore Engineer) have been unveiled today. Hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section, the annual awards recognize some of the industry’s…
Aker Solutions entered into an agreement to buy 70% of Brazilian CSE Mecânica e Instrumentação Ltda, in which the deal comes with an option to purchase the remaining 30% of the company three years after the expected close of the transaction by the end of Q1 2017…
Centrica has awarded a string of contracts to FMC Technologies, Subsea 7 and Aker BP / Maersk Drilling, for its Oda field development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Oda oil field (previously called Butch) was discovered in 2011…
Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo say they expect to cut the size and weight of subsea compression systems by at least 50%, just a year after the first such system successfully went on stream at Statoil’s Åsgard field. Image: Before and after…
Aker Solutions has secured two five-year framework agreements for potential future deliveries of subsea production systems and lifecycle services at BP-operated oil and gas fields globally. The first five-year contract covers engineering…
Premier Oil's Solan field, west of Shetland, was shut-in over concerns about safety on the what was designed to be normally unmanned facility. The Solan oilfield came onstream in April this year. The to be normally unmanned facility…
Aker Solutions won a contract from Statoil to build the pipeline facilities, modifications and tie-ins needed at the Mongstad terminal to receive oil from the North Sea Johan Sverdrup field. The contract, valued at about US$42.5 million (NOK 350 million)…
Statoil has awarded contracts to the FMC Technologies and Technip joint venture Forsys Subsea, and to Aker Solutions for its Trestakk field development that is scheduled for start-up in 2019, offshore Norway. Illustration of the Trestakk field…
A steering group of offshore companies working together to explore opportunities to maximize remaining gas reserves in the Southern North Sea (SNS) has been appointed. A mix of operators, duty holders, service businesses and supply chain…
Aker Solutions has introduced a new lighter weight and faster to deliver semisubmersible platform that will help producers unlock more marginal oil and gas fields in harsh environments across the globe. Lean Semi…
Norway’s government has agreed to a new round of funding into carbon capture and storage technologies. Elaine Maslin reports. Research and testing is set to continue at Technology Centre Mongstad…