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Subsea 7 S.A. today announced the award of a contract to its i-Tech division valued at approximately USD 60 million by Petrobras. The contract scope is for the provision of ROV’s and underwater positioning services on board the platform supply vessel (PSV) Far Saga operating offshore Brazil for an initial six year term with options..

Two weeks before the doors open at Europort, Rotterdam, organiser Ahoy is finalising arrangements for the event that promises to provide a benchmark for the ‘state of the global maritime and offshore industry’ in late 2013. Alongside attendees at its Advanced Technology Conferences industry seminars and networking opportunities, over 1,000 exhibitors will be present at..

Total, as part of a consortium comprised of Petrobras, Shell, CNPC and CNOOC, has been awarded a 35-year production sharing contract to develop the super-giant Libra field with a potential of 8 to 12 billion barrels of recoverable oil resources, and a total gross peak oil production which could reach 1.4 million barrels per day..

Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of two contracts with a combined value (at the time of contract signature) in excess of USD 600 million from Petrobras. The contracts are for operation of the Pipelay Support Vessels (PLSVs) Seven Mar and Seven Condor on a day rate basis for approximately 3 years, with operations starting..

IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel Sapura Diamante in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming of the innovative offshore vessel was carried out by Mrs Christina Lucia Duarte Pinho, the Executive Manager of Petrobras E&P Service. The 550t pipelaying vessel – ordered..

Wärtsilä received a significant order to supply the propulsion solutions for six new offshore pipe laying vessels being built by IHC Merwede. Three of the ships are to be built for Subsea 7, the other three vessels have been ordered by Seabras Sapura, the Sapura Kencana and Seadrill partnership entity. All six vessels are scheduled..

It’s a powerful proposal. Keeping a 90 m, 4,500 deadweight capacity platform supply vessel (PSV) stationary only a few meters from an oil and gas platform, as it transfers fluids, equipment and personnel in challenging weather conditions, is as much about power as it is about precision. With GE Power Conversion’s (NYSE: GE) dynamic positioning..

Pick up the latest issue of OSI at RenewableUK’s Offshore Wind 2013 in Manchester – the UK’s premier offshore wind energy event – from 12-13 June. More on that in a moment, but our cover story jumps to the other side of the offshore world – Brazil’s pre-salt fields and Petrobras‘ shipbuilding challenges. In March OSI’s..

This article appeared in the May/June 2013 Offshore Industry (OSI), Vol. 6, Issue 2. Words by John Gauldie, Copyright Yellow & Finch Publishers.  SBM Offshore‘s resharpened focus on FPSOs is paying dividends. In March the company booked a large contract for two new Petrobras-chartered, high-spec conversions to operate Brazil’s deepwater pre-salt production development in the Santos..

Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster – named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2012 – will be a keynote speaker for the New Frontiers roundtable at Nor-Shipping’s Agenda Offshore conference on June 5. Foster will be joined by top executives from two other world-leading oil and gas..

Subsea 7 S.A. has been awarded a contract worth in excess of USD 350 million from Petrobras. The contract is for the operation of the Pipe Lay Support Vessel (PLSV) Kommandor 3000 on a day rate basis for five years. Kommandor 3000 will start operations under the contract in 2013, note that during the year..

GE’s Power Conversion business is proving to be an ideal partner for builders and operators of drillships and semi-submersibles. In the last 12 months GE has won contracts valued at more than USD 600 million to provide propulsion systems with customers leading the pre-salt oilfield expansion off Brazil’s east coast. GE’s systems will power, propel,..

ABB will supply energy efficient propulsion and electrical power systems worth USD 18 million for two new deep sea pipeline installation vessels. South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering will build the vessels. The end customer, a joint venture between French oil service company Technip and Brazilian company Odebrecht Oil & Gas, will use..

Wärtsilä Hamworthy will supply its flare gas recovery packages to four floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units under construction for Petrobras. The units, each of which will be able to handle 150,000bpd, are to be deployed on the pre-salt fields, off Santos, Brazil. Three of the FPSOs will be utilised for Block BM-S-11 Lula..

The platform supply vessel CBO Atlântico is delivered. She is the first of six Ulstein designed X-Bow vessels to be built in Brazil, and the very first of the PX106 design. The vessel was constructed at Estaleiro Alianca shipyard in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for shipowner CBO (Companhia Brasileira de Offshore). CBO has already two..

Technip USA, Inc. has contracted Lankhorst Ropes to manufacture the polyester mooring ropes for the Lucius truss spar hull for the US Gulf of Mexico. Chris Johnson, sales director, Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division, said, “We are delighted to be working with Technip again. The Lucius contract is testimony to Lankhorst’s well proven, high quality Gama..

Wärtsilä is to supply the design and propulsors/positioning system for a series of two new flexible pipe laying vessels. The vessels will be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The owner and operator of the vessels is a joint venture formed between France-based energy industry company, Technip and the Brazilian oil & gas industry company, Odebrecht..

IHC Merwede is pleased to announce that it has recently secured orders for advanced vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of EUR 200 million. The latest agreements confirmed by IHC Merwede include  a new pipelaying vessel for Subsea 7. The assignment is for the design, engineering and construction..

IHC Merwede has recently secured orders for a new pipelaying vessel for Subsea 7, an engineering and components package for the build of a  trailing suction hopper dredger by BAE Systems (USA) for Weeks Marine Inc. and a 5,000t capacity carousel-lay system for Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. The orders are valued at EUR 200 million and also include..

Subsea 7 announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately USD 200 million from Petrobras on the Campos Basin, 80 km from the Brazilian coast. The contract scope includes the management, engineering, procurement and installation of two rigid oil lines of 4.5 km x 34″ (OD) at water depths of 70 m,..

Rolls-Royce has been awarded new contracts with a potential value of  USD 650 million to supply Petrobras with thirty-two RB211 gas turbine power generation packages, including waste-heat recovery units. The packages are destined for eight separate Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels. The FPSOs will operate in the petroleum rich Lula (formerly Tupi) and Guará oilfields,..

Petrobras announces a new oil discovery in the extreme southwestern part of the Walker Ridge concession area, located in America’s Gulf of Mexico ultra-deep waters. The discovery confirms the Lower Tertiary’s potential in this area. The Logan discovery is approximately 400 km (250 miles) southwest of New Orleans, at a water depth of around 2,364..

Flexlife, an oil and gas industry specialist in subsea project and integrity management, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Petrobras to develop and provide a new integrity management system and specialised engineering services for its international projects offshore. The agreement, Flexlife’s first work in that region, was reached during the OTC Brasil exhibition. It includes..

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 vessels,..

Rolls-Royce  has won an order to design and equip two UT 735 SE offshore supply vessels for Brasil Supply. The order is worth GBP 15 million to Rolls-Royce. The contract includes vessel design and an integrated Rolls-Royce equipment system including propulsion, deck machinery, bulk handling and vessel control systems. The vessels will be chartered by..