First oil at Shell’s Stones project in the Gulf of Mexico is on the horizon, as the Turritella floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) set sail from Singapore this month. The Turritella…
Ithaca Energy's delayed Greater Stella Area development remains on track for first production in Q2 next year. In a trading update this morning, Ithaca says sailaway of the FPF-1 floating production facility from the Remontowa Shipyard in Gdansk…
SBM Offshore received a formal invitation from Brazilian giant Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to tender for the Sépia and Libra floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs). Brasa shipyard…
Tullow Oil's TEN development project offshore Ghana is about 75% complete and on schedule and on budget to deliver first oil in mid-2016, the firm said this morning. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel for the project…
UK-based independent Premier Oil says it has lined up key 'world class' contractors to provide the vessel and infrastructure for its Falklands Islands Sea Lion development, after completing pre-front end engineering and design on the project…
A team from diesel power specialist Royston has completed the engine overhaul on the Bluewater-owned Haewene Brim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The facility has operated in the Pierce field in the UK sector of the North Sea since 1999…
Petronas has laid the keel of its second floating LNG vessel, the Petronas Floating LNG2, in Geoje Island, South Korea. JGC Group and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), the consortium leading the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of PFLNG2…
Image: Eni Goliat illustration overview/Eni Lankhorst Ropes Offshore has overseen the installation of the mooring ropes for the Goliat FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) for Eni Norge…
Cyberhawk Innovations completed its first ROAV inspection of a cargo oil tank on an operational floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The inspection took place on board the Gryphon FPSO, owned and operated by Maersk Oil in the UK North Sea…
Heather Saucier speaks with Mark Randolph and Susan Gourvenec, professors at the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, about deepwater geotechnical challenges, such as complex carbonates found off the coast of Australia…
It was the first floating production unit in the North Sea and it’s still going strong – with a deployment to its latest field, on its 12th contract, due to start next year. Elaine Maslin looks at Teekay Offshore’s Petrojarl I. The Petrojarl I FPSO…
Brazil will lead global growth in the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) industry despite the country’s national oil company, Petrobras, recently facing allegations of corruption, says research and consulting firm GlobalData…
The North Sea’s first producing oilfield, Argyll, has finally been brought back on stream by operator EnQuest, after being started and decommissioned twice in the past by previous operators. Argyll, now named Alma, and part of EnQuest’s Alma/Galia development…
Fred Olsen Energy has formally declared that construction contract for a newbuild semisubmersible rig which was originally destined for development drilling at the Chevron-operated Rosebank oil development in the UK West Shetlands region has been cancelled…
QGEP Participações has announced that Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção has signed a Crude Oil Sales Agreement (COSA) with Shell Western Supply and Trading for the early production system (EPS) of the Atlanta Field. This contract refers to QGEP's 30% share in the production from the field…
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