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BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) has been contracted by Petrobras America to provide support maintenance and repair for the Cascade and Chinook Free Standing Hybrid Riser Tower (FSHR) monitoring system. BMT is a subsidiary of BMT Group, an international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy.  The agreement includes five years of operation to support maintenance and repair..

Norway’s Solstad Offshore has returned to Gibdock for the conversion and drydocking of the 84m long, 4500DWT platform support vessel Normand Vester. This follows on from the conversion of the Normand Trym and Normand Vibran at the Gibraltar yard, successfully completed for the same owner last year. The work is necessary to prepare the vessel..

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 two..

Alewijnse is playing a major role in the conversion of the 8,250DWT Agile from a construction vessel into a high-tech, pipe-laying vessel. The work is taking place at the Scheldepoort Shipyard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and is due for completion by mid-June. After conversion the Agile will sail for Brazil where she will engage in laying flexible..

Statoil and Petrobras have struck oil on the Indra prospect. Petrobras is operator for licence BM-ES-32, where the discovery was made; Statoil holds a 40% stake. The exploration well at a depth of 2,130 m revealed both oil and reservoir quality are good. The reservoir thickness is approximately 70 m and is of good quality. The preliminary analysis..

Berg Propulsion has made a significant new breakthrough into the fast-growing offshore vessel construction market in Brazil, just a few months after establishing a regional office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s shipping capital. Berg has secured a contract to equip a 64m oil spill response vessel ordered by Astromaritima Navegacao at the Estaleiro Ilha (EISA)..

Gusto BV has specified seawater lift pumps and electric fire pumps from Hamworthy for installation on board the Cidade de Paraty floating production and storage offshore (FPSO) vessel, due for delivery into Brazilian waters in 2013. Gusto will operate the FPSO, on behalf of Petrobras in the Tupi Nordeste development in the Santos basin pre-salt..

Classification society ABS has been selected to class two of the major components in Petrobras’ Papa Terra offshore Brazil field development. The tension-leg wellhead platform nown as P-61 and the floating production, storage and offloading  unit known as P-63 will both be ABS classed. The P-61 is the first-of- its-kind TLP dry tree application to..

Expro announced today its Latin America Connectors & Measurements team has been awarded a new master service agreement (MSA) from Petrobrás for subsea electrical systems. As part of the contract, valued at R$4.3 million ($2.5 million) over three years, Expro will provide on-site field support for all Petrobrás projects using its market-leading Tronic connectors for..

Two new offshore support vessels (OSVs), which are currently under construction for Navegação São Miguel and destined for long-term charter to Brazilian operator Petrobras, will feature a suite of MacGregor offshore equipment. The vessels have been ordered for an eight-year charter agreement with Petrobras.  Cargotec will supply a set of MacGregor offshore load handling and..

STX Norway Offshore AS and partner PJMR Empreendimentos Ltda have through its subsidiary Estaileiro Promar S.A entered into contracts for building eight LPG carriers at the new shipyard in Brazil. The value of the contract is approximately million USD 536. On 9 July, 2010 Estaleiro Promar S.A. signed the contracts to build the LPG carriers for Transpetro,..

Today, Sevan has announced the Sevan Driller has left Macae, heading for to its first drilling location in the Campos basin. The advanced deepwater drilling unit is the world’s first cylindrical rig and will be operating in the pre-salt area under a fixed six year drilling contract with Petrobras.

In a breakthrough deal, Wärtsilä has signed a contract with the Brazilian industrial group QUIP to supply three main power modules for a new P-63 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel is unique in that it will be the first FPSO to utilize gas engines to produce more than 100 MWe of..

The Sevan Driller completed the sea trials off the coast of China on November 23, 2009, and has started its voyage to Brazil for commencement of a six-year contract with Petrobras S.A. The rig has undertaken an extensive commissioning and sea trial program, including speed trials confirming the design speed above 9 knots.

Transocean Ltd. announced that the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Petrobras 10000 has commenced operations in Angola for a subsidiary of Petrobras under a ten-year drilling contract. Transocean has an agreement with the P&M Drilling International B.V. joint venture of Petrobras and Mitsui to acquire the rig under a twenty-year capital lease contract.

FMC Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Petrobras to supply a subsea separation system for the Marlim field, located in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. The contract is valued at approximately USD 90 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. FMC’s scope of supply consists of a subsea separation and pumping system. The subsea..

The naming ceremony of the Sevan Driller, the world’s first cylinder-shaped ultra-deepwater drilling rig, took place on 28 June 2009 at Cosco Qidong Shipyard, Jiangsu Province, China. Sevan Driller was named by the godmother Madam Feng Jiping, wife of Cosco Group President Captain Wei Jiafu. About 400 guest from the shipyard, clients, shareholders, investors, financiers..