Teekay Offshore Partners has entered into an agreement with a consortium led by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) to provide a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Atlanta field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil…
Chevron’s subsidiary Star Deep Water Petroleum awarded FMC Technologies a US$268 million contract to provide subsea equipment for operations for the Agbami field’s Phase 3, offshore Nigeria. The Agbami FPSO…
Swedish heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers for two FPSOs to be moored offshore Angola. The order is worth about SEK 50 million (US$6.6 million) and delivery is scheduled for 2015…
Watch as Eni shows the journey of the N’Goma FPSO as it sails away from Singapore and arrives at the Paenal yard for module lifting. SBM Offshore discussed the makings of its Paenal Shipyard in OE's October 2014 issue. The vessel…
Italian giant Eni began production of first oil from its West Hub Development project in Block 15/06, offshore Angola. N’Goma. From SBM Offshore. Block 15/06 covers about 2984sq km…
ExxonMobil received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the West Alpha semisubmersible drilling rig on the Balder field, in the central North Sea. The West Alpha. From North Atlantic Drilling…
Modec’s Cidade de Mangaratiba MV 24 floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel achieved first oil production in October in the BM-S-11 block, located in the giant pre-salt Santos basin, offshore Brazil. The Cidade de Mangaratiba…
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) awarded Modec, Inc. and Brazilian partner Schahin Group a contract to supply, charter, and for the operation of a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Tartaruga Verde and Tartaruga Mestica fields offshore Brazil…
Oil production has started at from a previously undrained compartment at OMV’s US$255 million Maari redevelopment, located around 80km off the Taranaki coast of New Zealand. The MR-8A well, the second in the drilling campaign, was side…
Offshore oil and gas mega projects are increasing in scale and cost. Some 41% of ExxonMobil’s 2015 capital spending for projects under construction in 2015 is likely to be directed to one project alone. Neda Djahansouzi, Energy Researcher…
Service company Royal Niger Emerging Technologies has awarded JDR a fast-track contract supporting the West African Abo project for the manufacture of a 1.55km hybrid steel tube and thermoplastic umbilical. The umbilical, designed to…
China National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) has begun production from the Huizhou 25-8 oilfield and Xijiang 24-3 oilfield in the South China Sea, known as the Xijiang 24-1 District joint development project. Xijiang 24-3 facility…
Petrobras hit first oil with the floating production and storage offloading unit (FPSO) Cidade de Ilhabela in the Sapinhoá field in the pre-salt Santos basin, offshore Brazil. Cidade de Ilhabela. From BG Group…
Oil & Gas UK has published two updated sets of guidelines to help operators of floating production storage and offloading facilities (FPSOs), floating storage units (FSUs) and offtake tankers to adopt advances in industry good practice. Oil & Gas UK’s operations director…
Brazil's Petrobras is bring its Cidade de Ilhabela floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel onstream to operate in the pre-salt Santos basin, offshore Brazil, according to partner BG Group. Cidade de Ilhabela…
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