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Aker Solutions Wins Offshore Loading Systems Contracts

Aker Solutions has won two similar contracts, together worth approx. 120 million NOK, from CQG Oil & Gas Contractors Inc. and CCI Oil & Gas Contractors Inc., for the supply of Pusnes offloading systems(TM) to two FPSOs in the Brazilian market.  The offloading systems will be installed on the two FPSOs P-58 and P-62,...

Wärtsilä Will Supply Ship Design and Equipment for Next Generation Platform Supply Vessel

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the design and equipment for a new platform supply vessel (PSV) for offshore operations. The ship will be of the new VS 485 Mk III design and it will be one of the most cost and fuel-efficient supply vessels ever to be launched. The order has...

Tata Steel Progresses Pipeline Contracts

Tata Steel has been awarded three major contracts, worth around GBP 20million, providing pipeline to Subsea 7 to support three North Sea projects including BP’s Andrew Area and Apache’s Bacchus developments. The contracts will see delivery of almost 17,000 tof steel from Tata Steel’s Hartlepool site, England, to Subsea 7’s pipeline bundle fabrication site...

Boskalis Orders Cable Laying Vessel and Acquires Cable Laying Contract

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has placed an order with Samsung for the construction of a power cable laying vessel. The vessel with an overall length of 100 m and with a cable loading capacity of 5,000 t is expected to be completed in the second half of 2012. The company has also been awarded a EUR 20...

Statoil Increases its Presence in Indonesia

Statoil has farmed in to three offshore exploration licenses in Indonesia, significantly expanding the presence in the country. The company will acquire a 40% equity interest in a North Makassar Strait Production Sharing Contract (PSC) and a similar interest in two additional offshore PSCs (West Papua IV and Halmahera-Kofiau). The three production sharing contracts (PSC)...

Activities in Brazil are Hotting Up

With the global economy on the way to recovery and the offshore industry growing substantially, Brazil is acting as major trailblazer in the market place. The marine equipment supplier Hatlapa has been matching the trend in recent years by increasing its activities in the offshore sector as well as making Brazil one of its...

Shell Moves Forward with Prelude FLNG

The Board of Royal Dutch Shell has taken the final investment decision on the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Project in Australia (100% Shell), building the world’s first FLNG facility. Moored some 200 km from the nearest land in Australia, the FLNG facility will produce gas from offshore fields, and liquefy it onboard by...

Decommissioning Pipe Cutter IHC Handling Systems

IHC Handling Systems, has introduced a new pipe cutter; the unique tool can be repositioned underwater and has been developed in response to the increasing demand for the decommissioning of offshore structures. The pipe cutter is able to create smaller pieces of pipe for transportation in the process of decommissioning jackets. It can be...

Oil & Gas UK: Concerns On Future of Coastguard Services

Robert Paterson of Oil & Gas UK, today (19 May) gave evidence in Stornoway for the House of Commons Transport Committee’s inquiry into the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) proposed modernisation of coastguard services. He said: “Oil & Gas UK broadly accepts the rationale for modernisation of the coastguard service but our members have identified...

Class Society ABS Opens Office in Stavanger

Classification society ABS announces the opening of an office in Stavanger, Norway to further extend its global reach and provide dedicated support to its growing Norwegian client base. Known for its leadership in offshore classification and technology, the society’s Stavanger office will be staffed with a professional team of offshore engineers and surveyors focused...

Wave Treader Possible Power Source Oil & Gas Industry

Green Ocean Energy has secured GBP 45,000 funding through ITF, the industry technology facilitator, to develop its Wave Treader technology for the oil and gas industry. This is the first ever renewable energy venture to receive support from ITF, which will enable Green Ocean Energy to investigate the capability of its wave energy generator...

Macgregor Offshore Cranes Serve Windmill Park Platform

Cargotec is supplying two MacGregor offshore deck cranes for installation on an offshore converter platform, BorWin beta, which will feed 800 MW of renewable energy generated by two offshore windfarms into the German electricity grid. BorWin beta is one of several offshore platforms to be installed in a windmill park maintained by Siemens (image). The platform...

Gel Lift System For The Renewables Sector

Aubin, a leading independent supplier of specialist chemicals to the energy industry, has today launched a game-changing new product that could save millions of pounds when installing offshore renewables infrastructure. The Gel Lift System (GLS), which can be seen in action in the Aberdeen City & Shire Pavilion at All Energy 2011, offers the...

Hamworthy Secures Goliat FPSO order

Hamworthy has won a major contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to supply a complete inert gas generator system, as part of the shipbuilder’s latest Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) newbuild contract. The contract calls for delivery of a fully assembled inert gas system (IGS) to the Goliat FPSO, to be located in...

Stork Technical Services And Arle Acquire RBG Group

Stork Technical Services and Arle today announced the acquisition of RBG Limited, the UK based supplier of inspect, assess and repair services to the global energy industry. RBG Limited, has been acquired as a strategic addition to Stork Technical Services Holding B.V. The acquisition includes all of RBG’s primary activities in the UK, Europe,...

World’s Largest Liftboat

PaxOcean Engineering Zhoushan Co., Ltd. and The Levingston Corporation announced today that they have signed a letter of intent to build a Levingston designed 415WC (World Class) liftboat with an option for one additional similar vessel for an undisclosed contract value. The announcement was made at the new Elevating Boats LLC’s (EBI) facility at...

Focus on Light Well Intervention Challenges at Aberdeen Event

The challenges associated with light well intervention (LWI) in shallow water will be discussed at a lunch and learn session by leading oil and gas industry body the ICoTA European Chapter, in Aberdeen on 17 May. Jasper Naylor, sub sea well intervention engineer at BP will highlight the challenges associated with BP’s most shallow subsea...

CFPA Hosts New Generation of Wave Energy Technology

The Invergordon Service Base has played host to the fabrication and assembly of the next generation wave power device. The Powerbuoy, PB150, is the largest and most powerful designed to date by Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) and with a peak rated power output of 150KW, would produce enough energy to supply 150 homes. The...

Offshore Solutions Celebrates 2,500 Safe Connections

Offshore Solutions has announced another significant achievement in the operation of the Offshore Access System (OAS). Installed on the GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V. , REM Mermaid, the OAS has successfully achieved 2,500 operational connections. This is the third operational OAS in the Southern North Sea and during its operational life so far has also...

Subsea UK Appoints New Chief Executive

The industry body which represents the UK’s subsea sector has appointed a new chief executive. Neil Gordon will take over the reins at Subsea UK at the beginning of July 2011. Currently general manager of the National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen, Mr Gordon has over twenty years management and business development experience, combined with over ten...

Oil Discovery in the North Sea

Oil has been proven by Statoil and its partners Det norske oljeselskap ASA and Svenska Petroleum Exploration AS on the North Sea Krafla prospect. The well is located in block 30/11 around 26 km south of the Oseberg South field. Based on preliminary calculations the size of the discovery is between 12.5 and 56.5...

Fairmount Tugs Deliver FPSO Pazflor

A specialised team lead by Fairmount Marine has completed successfully the tow, mooring and positioning hook-up of the floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Pazflor offshore Angola. Earlier Fairmount’s powerful tugs Fairmount Expedition, Fairmount Glacier and Fairmount Alpine have towed FPSO Pazflor from Korea to Angola. After arrival offshore Angola the 30 man...

Ulstein and NLI Have Introduced New Integrated Derrick Solution

At  OTC  Houston last week, Ulstein Sea of Solutions and NLI introduced a new, integrated derrick solution based on existing drilling equipment, readily available in the market. With the development of the ‘Northern Light’ drilling derrick an alternative solution is provided based on proven and well known industry technologies to contractors and shipyards worldwide. The...

Brinker Has Received Major Industry Award

UK-based Brinker Technology was recently awarded a Meritorious Engineering Award at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).  The award was presented to Brinker as winner of the improved/enhanced oil recovery category for its Platelet Barrier Technology. The technology significantly reduces the time it takes to find and fix well leaks, field wide, significantly improving production...

New E&C Offshore Contracts

Saipem has been awarded new E&C Offshore contracts worth of USD 1 billion in China and Brazil. The offshore activities for both the contracts will be performed mainly by the highly specialised Saipem FDS 2 vessel, in different periods between 2012 and 2013. The scope of work includes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of...