Premier Oil's Catcher development is on track for first oil by the end of the year with the project's floating production vessel now moored in field. The BW Catcher vessel, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore…
MODEC has signed a contract for supply, charter, and operations of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel with Brazil's Petrobras on 13 October 2017. The firm charter period of the contract is 21 years. The FPSO will be deployed at the Sépia field operated by Petrobras…
Eni has been ordered to shut down all production from the Goliat floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, after the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA) gives the Italian giant a notice to improve its electrical safety…
Keppel Shipyard has won a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel conversion contract from SBM Offshore for ExxonMoibil's Liza development offshore Guyana. The contract is for the conversion of a very large crude carrier (VLCC) into an FPSO…
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…
i3 Energy has submitted its field development plan and environmental statement (ES) for the development of the Liberator field in the UK North Sea. i3 plans to tie the field into the Blake field host infrastructure, then through the…
Bluewater Energy's Aoka Mizu floating production unit has arrived at Drydocks World Dubai shipyard ready for works to prepare it for use on Hurricane Energy's Lancaster field early production system (EPS) development, west of Shetland. Drydocks…
Connector Subsea Solutions and Hydratight completed the world’s first deepwater riser repair at 1250m depth for BP off West Africa. Pål Magne Hisdal, Andre Midtun and Ivar K. Hanson explain. Image from the installation phase…
Alpha Petroleum is proving that there’s room for small independents to make their mark in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin looks at the firm’s Cheviot field plan. Image from Centrica. Some fields get a second chance…
Despite disappointment at Korpfjell, there’s optimism in the far North. The Christophe de Margerie LNG carrier in icy conditions. Photo from Total. High hopes were pinned on the multi-billion-barrel potential Korpfjell prospect…
Keppel Offshore & Marine's BrasFELS shipyard in Brazil has delivered the Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to MODEC. The FPSO was completed safely, on time and within budget…
A drilling moratorium, which has prevented drilling on the TEN fields (Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme) offshore Ghana, has been lifted after a tribunal decided the work didn't violate a border with the Ivory Coast. Image from Tullow…
Independent oil firm i3 Energy says detailed engineering studies into a tieback for its Liberator field have started. The firm is looking to tie the field into the Blake field host infrastructure, then through the Bleo Holm floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel…
Hurricane Energy has made a final investment decision on its Lancaster early production system (EPS) development and expects regulatory approval shortly. The Lancaster EPS is a two-well tieback to a floating production, storage and loading facility that is expected to produce 17…
The floating production systems (FPS) market has been heavily impacted by the oil price downturn. Orders declined significantly from 17 in 2014 to four in 2015 and zero in 2016. There have been signs of a recovery in 2017, with seven orders booked year to date…
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