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Wood Group bags offshore Australia contract

Feb 04, 2015

Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has secured a contract with Woodside to provide the front end engineering design (FEED) of the flowline system, and associated procurement support, for the proposed Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) development for the North West Shelf (NWS) Project…

Keeping a cool head in the Arctic

Feb 02, 2015

Golder Associates’ Ken Been explains the best approach to geotechnical engineering and pipeline construction when facing scours and pits in the Arctic ice. Fig. 1: Ice scouring.  Over the coming decades…

EMAS AMC secures US$65 million in contracts

Jan 30, 2015

EMAS AMC secured multiple new awards valued at more than US$65 million. Scope of work includes project management, engineering, and transportation and installation works for a floating production storage offloading (FPSO) vessel in Africa…

BG inks alliance with KBR

Jan 28, 2015

BG Group has signed a six-year global alliance with KBR to provide technical support, services (in both the pre-FEED and FEED stages), and project management expertise across BG Group’s global upstream portfolio. Under the agreement, which has options to extend up to 10 years…

Ramboll chosen for Culzean jackets

Jan 28, 2015

Danish engineering house Ramboll Oil & Gas is to perform detailed design work for the two jackets for Maersk Oil's ultra-high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) UK North Sea Culzean field.  The jackets are for a central processing facility…

Bentley touts SACS V5.7 benefits

Jan 28, 2015

Distributed offshore engineering users of SACS V5.7 are benefiting from the extended information mobility provided through the software’s integration with the ProjectWise project delivery solution as well as enhanced integration with both MOSES and AutoPIPE…

InterMoor completes Juniper contract

Jan 26, 2015

InterMoor completed a mooring and foundation installation campaign for bpTT’s Juniper gas project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Image from InterMoor.   According to InterMoor, this is…

Power Jacks unveils subsea precision tools

Jan 26, 2015

Power Jacks is launching a suite of bespoke subsea electro-mechanical actuators and gearboxes. Power Jacks U-series. From Power Jacks.   Power Jacks says its integrated U-Series range…

J+S installs HsV on CNR Lyell MPBP

Jan 21, 2015

J+S created a bespoke engineering solution to terminate HV connectors complete with pigtails onto an existing umbilical. The solution required replacement of a single 3-phase connector with separate phase connections to each core. J+S enabled an in-field assembly onto the existing umbilical…

Aker lands latest Johan Sverdrup contract

Jan 21, 2015

Statoil has continued a contract award spree on its giant Norwegian North Sea Johan Sverdrup project, awarding Aker Solutions a US$590 million detailed engineering contract.  Johan Sverdrup, which sits in on the Utsira High, 140km west of Stavanger…

UH to lead offshore energy research center

Jan 20, 2015

The University of Houston (UH) will lead a national research center for subsea engineering and other offshore energy development issues, including research and technology to improve the sustainable and safe development of energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico…

Hejre topside time-lapse

Jan 20, 2015

DONG Energy provides this time-lapse video of the Herje topsides construction process, which took place from April to October 2014. Hejre is Dong Energy’s first high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) development and is expected to begin production in 2017 with an estimated 170 MMboe…

Eversendai picks AVEVA integrated engineering and design

Jan 19, 2015

Eversendai Offshore made a significant investment in AVEVA’s Integrated Engineering & Design solutions through its deployment of AVEVA Marine. AVEVA Marine is a set of integrated applications created…

GE/McDermott launch new consultancy

Jan 15, 2015

A new oilfield consultancy has been launched by GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International to “transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fields.” Io oil & gas consulting, deliberately spelled without capital letters by the firms…

LMC in US$110 Jurong Brazil contract

Jan 14, 2015

Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard awarded Ezra Holding subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), a contract to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field’s extended well test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large…

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