Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (Keppel O&M) wholly owned subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd and Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd were awarded contracts worth approximately US$120 million. From Keppel Bumi…
Real-time metocean data transmitted by a Fugro SEAWATCH Wavescan buoy is supporting Technip's construction program on BP's Quad 204 project West of Shetland. The work is Technip’s largest UK North Sea contract to date and involves replacing…
SBM Offshore’s Paula Farquharson-Blengino provides an inside look at the company’s Angola shipyard, a joint venture between partners Sonangol and DSME. Paenal is the first yard in West Africa with the capacity to facilitate mega FPSO vessels…
Technology is there for companies to use and take advantage of, but is it being used as much as it could be to gain insight into operations. Gregory Hale takes a look. With the digital oilfield…
Wojciech Zmudzinski, chief pipeline engineer for McDermott (right) with an INPEX Ichthys Project representative during a valve manufacturing inspection at a factory in Italy. (Photo: Business Wire) McDermott…
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from Armada Kraken Pte, a subsidiary of Bumi Armada Berhad, a Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider. ABB will provide power and automation technologies for the floating…
Norwegian exploration and production firm Noreco is facing uncertainty after its chairman resigned with immediate effect as the firm deals with significant write-downs on reserves at key production assets. Noreco says, according to updated reservoir modeling by operator Dong Energy…
Australian oil and gas firm BHP Billiton has backed plans to develop what may be the world’s largest floating LNG project, saying it is “fully aligned” with partner ExxonMobil. But, the project is still facing difficulties, according to a statement from Exxon to news agency Bloomberg…
UK-based energy services provider Penspen acquired the engineering division of DPS Group. The acquisition increases Penspen’s headcount by 10%; strengthens its oil and gas process facilities engineering capability; and brings access to the FPSO construction market in Asia Pacific…
Teekay Petrojarl has gone live with Petrotechnics' Proscient operational performance and predictive risk platform on its Voyageur Spirit asset in the North Sea. The Voyageur Spirit Proscient go-live kicks off the global deployment of…
Sevan Marine is to provide front end engineering and design for the hull and marine systems of a Sevan type cylindrical floating production (FPSO) facility for Premier Oil's Bream field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Bream…
Brazil's state-run oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro, will sign a contract to build and lease a floating production ship for its Libra offshore project this month, company Chief Executive Maria das Gracas Foster said on 18 September, as reported by Reuters…
Three tugs of Fairmount Marine have towed the new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Petrojarl Knarr from South Korea to Norway in just 61 days. Petrojarl Knarr, one of world’s largest FPSOs for harsh environments, was delivered to the port of Haugesund…
Planning is underway for further drilling on the Barryroe discovery in the Celtic Sea offshore Ireland during 2015 with a view to reaching first oil by 2018, according to partner Landsdowne Oil & Gas. The work is subject to a farm…
Petrobras expects pre-salt production to account for 50% of its total production by 2020, Carlos Tadeu Fraga, Petrobras’ general manager for pre-salt E&P told attendees at Rio Oil and Gas 2014 on Wednesday. Fraga (pictured) stepped in…
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