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After a competitive tendering process, Maersk Oil North Sea UK (Maersk Oil UK), operator of the Culzean development in the North Sea, has awarded a contract for the EPC of the project’s well head platform (WHP) jacket to Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG). International Scope HFG will build the WHP jacket and piles, the well head..

In April the completed Golden Eagle Production, Utilities and Quarters (PUQ) deck for Nexen Petroleum U.K. left Lamprell’s Jebel Ali, UAE facility. As well as an on-schedule and on-budget delivery, Lamprell achieved a new safety record and the ALE load-out of the 13,191.98t deck broke the Guinness World Record for the ‘Heaviest Load Moved by SPMTs’. The deck..

Representatives of Mammoet and other Dutch companies visited Tanzania recently to explore potential construction projects and investment opportunities. The East African country has impressive growth rates and large stocks of underseas gas it is looking to develop. Tanzania is shaping up to be a great opportunity for Dutch companies that are active in energy, infrastructure and transport. Mammoet,..

The October / November 2013 issue of OSI is the special Offshore Energy Amsterdam Edition. As well as our Offshore Energy Preview, which tackles key areas for offshore professionals, we also outline several fabrication and engineering contractors. For example the specialist in processing and welding high-tensile steel, Abuco, undertook a series of tasks on board..

Conquest MB I, a 1500 ton offshore heavy lift crane barge from Conquest Offshore worked  (off)loading at the quay of Heerema, Flushing, the Netherlands. Clients appreciate the exceptional working characteristics of the state of the art 136 x 36 m cranebarge. When changing from 400t, 800t to 1,600t hook block there is no need to..

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP, visited Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartleppool yard in North East England. Heerema is creating 200 new jobs building offshore platforms for the major Cygnus gas project. The project was made possible in part by the UK Government’s decision to offer a tax allowance for..

FoundOcean has completed foundation grouting for three new platforms in the North Sea – contracts awarded by Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). All three jackets were designed using pile-to-sleeve connections and fabricated with grout line connections above the waterline.

Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartlepool yard in the UK received a frame contract from GDF SUEZ E&P UK for the fabrication and commissioning of four topsides for the Cygnus gas field development on the UK’s southern North Sea.

On 18 June Heerema Marine Contractors installed the largest jacket ever designed and built in the Netherlands. The Dutch company transported the 160m jacket from builders Heerema Fabrication Group in Vlissingen in the Netherlands to the jacket’s position at the North Sea Valemon field.

Heerema Fabrication Group in the Netherlands will engineer and build an offshore wind converter station platform equiped with Siemens High Voltage Direct Current technology, which provides low-loss transmission of wind power generated in the German North Sea. Sister company Heerema Marine Contractors will install the platform in 2014.

Heerema Fabrication Group is delivering the largest offshore jacket ever designed and built in the Netherlands to the Statoil Valemon platform in the North Sea. The 160m jacket, weighing 9,640 t, will leave the Port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands on 26 May. It is also the heaviest jacket to be installed by the world’s..

This year Heerema will install the 2,750t 90m York platform in the North Sea for Centrica Energy. The platform took just over one year to build at Heerema’s fabrication yard in Hartlepool, UK. It is the third successful project delivered by the partnership between Centrica Energy and Heerema, with the F3-FA self-installing platform celebrating its..

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 of..

Heerema Hartlepool, one of the three fabrication locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has been awarded the EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract of the 2,750 t York platform destined for the York Field Development gasfield in the UK Continental Shelf. At Heerema Hartlepool the construction work of the 1,300 t topsides and 1,450..

After having developed the concept and basic design for Heerema‘s new monohull vessel, Ulstein Sea of Solutions (USOS) has now also been awarded the further engineering of the vessel with the selected shipyard, DSME of Korea. USOS signed a contract with DSME on 13 September for further vessel engineering and integration of the mission equipment..

Heerema Vlissingen, one of the three production locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), successfully completed the construction and installation of the state-of-the-art F3-FA mobile production platform of Centrica Energy in the F3-FA Field on the Dutch Continental shelf on 4 September.

Heerema Zwijndrecht, one of the three production locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), reached a milestone in the construction of the Valhall Re-Development Integrated Production & Hotel Facility deck for BP Norge.  

Heerema Hartlepool, one of the fabrication locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has been awarded a contract to fabricate and load out two substation platform topsides for the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm by AREVA T&D UK Ltd on behalf of owners Statoil (formerly StatoilHydro) and Statkraft.

Schlumberger has been awarded a contract by Heerema Marine Contractors to supply a real-time riser tension monitoring system for nine single leg hybrid risers (SLHR) for a major project offshore Angola.

Heerema Vlissingen, one of the fabrication facilities of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has successfully completed the EPC contract for the construction of a jacket and piles for the fourth platform on Nexen’s Buzzard oilfield in the UK North Sea. On 6 August 2009 the 3,500t jacket which measures 42 x 42 x 124m together with..

TiasNimbas has launched an education programme called ‘International Contracting’. This programme focuses on organizations operating in the offshore and construction industry. These organizations work in an environment where contracts play an essential role defining mutual rights and duties between parties involved as well as benefits to be gained from collaboration.