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BP and its partners – Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron – are developing four new oil and gas projects that will involve a total investment of almost GBP 10 billion in the UK industry over the next five years and help to maintain BP’s production from the North Sea for decades to come. The UK government...

Several major South Korean shipyards have awarded Aker Solutions contracts for the supply of Pusnes offshore loading systems for ten shuttle tankers that will operate in Brazil and Norway. The total contract value for Aker Solutions is approximately NOK 150 million. contracts for the supply of Pusnes bow loading system for ten suezmax shuttle...

Rotterdam-based Stemat Marine Services launched a new App for Apple App Store, Blackberry, Android and Windows Phone. In every project it is key that partners have an accurate insight in what Stemat Marine Services has to offer. The new Stemat Marine App is developed to provide customers with accurate and up to date information...

On Thursday, 6 October, under the watchful eye of Rogier Rust of Bureau Veritas, the floating sheerleg Matador 3 of Bonn & Mees Drijvende Bokken BV was successfully upgraded from 1,500 to 1,800 t. During the test lifts in Waalhaven she lifted 1,980 t in the A frame and 990 t in  the jib....

Nordic Yards in Germany has given Siemens Water Technologies the order for the delivery of two Siemens Chloropac hypochlorite generators. The Chloropac system prevents bio-fouling in cooling water systems in ships and offshore oil & gas platforms by producing hypochlorite by means of seawater electrolysation. The order is valued at over a million Euros....

Fairmount Marine‘s powerful tug Fairmount Glacier has successfully assisted in the installation of the floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO), Usan, offshore Nigeria. The FPSO Usan is one of the largest of its kind: 320 m long and 61 m wide. The unit is built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea. For this...

The SCI-Panna, the very first vessel of Havyard design constructed by the Indian shipyard Bharati, has been delivered to the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). It is also the first vessel of a Havyard design that SCI has purchased. A further three vessels of Havyard 841-design to the same Indian shipowners are under construction...

Wireline and well intervention technology specialist Wireline Engineering, welcomed over 20 oil and gas delegates from China at its office and workshop facilities in Blackburn, Aberdeen. The tour had been organised by Lifeng Wang, a BP geophysicist working in Aberdeen (and originally from China), after visiting the company’s stand at the Offshore Europe event. The delegates included...

Shiprepair yard Gibdock has added another name to its increasingly long list of clients in the offshore sector. In September the yard drydocked the 3,000GRT Boa Galatea, an offshore survey vessel, for Norway’s Boa Offshore. This is the first time that the family-owned Boa Offshore business, which operates a fleet of over 40 offshore...

Fairmount Marine‘s tug Fairmount Alpine has delivered the semi-submergible drilling rig Ocean Yorktown safely in Brownsville, USA, after a 5,400-miles long tow from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fairmount Marine was contracted in July by Diamond Offshore, a leading deepwater drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, to tow the rig to the Mexican Gulf region. The...

On 8 and 9 December of this year, the Hotel Hafen Hamburg, Germany, will be the prestigious venue of the first international Business Offshore Conference 2011. Top executives of the world’s foremost offshore and energy companies will give an overview of current and prospective global activities in the three major offshore segments oil and gas,...

Independent Risk Management Systems BV, suppliers of support for emergency pipeline repair systems (EPRS) and pipeline repair, opened its doors for business. Rutger Schouten, general manager: “The only way to ensure that response is rapid and that the pipeline is repaired safely and efficiently is to develop an EPRS that is customised to the pipeline...

Caterpillar has been selected to power sixteen offshore supply vessels for use in operation in the Brazilian offshore market, requiring a total of 56 Cat and MaK Diesel Electric Propulsion Engine (DEP) generator sets. The vessels include four oil spill recovery vessels (OSRV) and twelve platform supply vessels (PSV). Cat dealers Sotreq, based in...

Kongsberg Maritime AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, completed the acquisition of Evotec AS on Friday 30 September. Located in the Norwegian municipalities of Herøy and UlsteinEvotec AS develops and delivers technological management systems for the seismic, subsea and supply markets, among others. Within these sectors, the company has developed systems that have...

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) completed the construction of the minimum facilities platforms for the Clipper South Development and the Breagh Alpha Development. Both EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contracts were awarded by RWE Dea UK. At the HFG Vlissingen fabrication location, the 900t jacket with a height of 43 m and the 2,300t topsides...

The top priorities for oil and gas technology investment in 2012 were agreed at an international gathering of ITF members in Aberdeen. More than 80 senior oil and gas figures travelled accross the world and accross Europe for the Annual Technology Conference (ATC) to debate and agree on the issues that they want to see tackled next year. ...

AnTech Limited, a UK design engineering and manufacturing company serving the upstream oil and gas industries, announced that it has significantly expanded its ‘wellhead outlet’ range.  In addition, the entire range is now fully IECEx-certified.  Since 2001, AnTech has been supplying ATEX-certified, single and dual conductor wellhead outlets. The wireline, completions and coiled tubing...

Energy leader’s that gathered for the summit organised by the World Energy Council (WEC) on 14 September, heard that the outlook for the sustainable supply and use of energy has become more uncertain in 2011. This comes in the context of the significant events and economic uncertainty that have affected the sector over the...

Improving the performance and safety of well intervention will be the focus of a lunch and learn session organised by leading oil and gas industry body the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) in Aberdeen on Tuesday, 20 September from 11.45 am to 1.45 pm. The event at the Marcliffe at Pitfodels Hotel, is...

Danish shipping company Niels Winther & Co. and their British colleagues Clarkson Port Services – a division of the listed Clarksons Plc. – have begun collaborating about supplying a new concept for the offshore wind sector in Britain. The concept is marketed internationally and involves a range of harbour-related activities, including agency, stevedoring and...

Havyard Group has now developed its own concept of navigation and communications packages for vessels. Saeborg B102, which is close to completion at Havyard Ship Technology in Leirvik in Sogn, Norway, is the first vessel with such an equipment package from Havyard. Havyard also offers this concept within design and system packages being delivered...

Gas turbine engines, gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets ranging up  to 22 MW and 30,0000 hp can weigh as much as 90,000 kg and the final packaged units can be 9 m long. Moving them through the manufacturing process is at times a challenging. Solar Turbines has now incorporated a pair of Wheelift IP-SPMTs (In-Plant...

Kongsberg Maritime Mexico S.A. DE C.V. became fully operational out of its new facility in Veracruz this summer. As an extension to Kongsberg’s worldwide service network, the new service hub will offer expanded support for DP vessels and international merchant vessels with Kongsberg Maritime navigation, automation and control systems on board. The operation in...

STX Finland Oy and Eide Marine Semi AS, a subsidiary of Eide Marine Services A/S, have signed a contract for the outfitting, completion and delivery of two highly sophisticated well intervention vessels with an aggregate contract value exceeding EUR 300 million. The contract is subject to certain financing conditions. The vessels will be delivered...

RBG has secured a major GBP 30 million two year contract extension to provide Apache North Sea Limited with fabric maintenance and deck crew services. The contract, which RBG has held since 2008, will see the continued delivery of a wide range of integrated services, including coatings specification, application and repair, passive fire protection,...