Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has unveiled a number of failings, following an audit of Shell's management of the integrity of flexible risers, transfer lines and associated safety equipment on Knarr floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit…
Start up on Ithaca Energy's Stella field has been set back after electrical faults were found on the floating production unit. First oil via the FPF-1 floating production facility had been due at the end of this month, but is now expected early January…
Talos Energy has started production from its Tornado project within the Phoenix field, in Green Canyon Blocks 236, 237, 280 and 281, in the US Gulf of Mexico. Production, in about 822m (2700ft) water depth started on 27 October and…
In this video, US supermajor Chevron shows a 360° video tour of its Jack/St. Malo facility, its largest deepwater offshore platform, offshore the US Gulf of Mexico. The Jack and St. Malo fields were co-developed with subsea completions…
SBM Offshore has released a video of the Turritella floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit, as the vessel started commercial production at Shell’s Stones development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico on 6 September. At Stones…
The shareholders of Norwegian driller Northern Offshore approved a takeover deal by China's Shangdong Offshore. The acquisition will be done by amalgamation according to the law of Bermuda for US$0.96 per share, valuing Northern at $164…
Malaysia-based Bumi Armada Berhad awarded ABB a contract to supply electrical and automation systems for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for a recently discovered oilfield off the coast of Angola. Bumi is reconfiguring the former Armada Ali supertanker…
Work on UK independent Ithaca Energy's Greater Stella Area (GSA) floating production unit is reaching a peak in Remontowa's Polish shipyard. Ithaca says manning levels on the FPF-1 vessel have been at historic highs over recent weeks…
InterMoor completed replacing critical components in an floating production unit (FPU) mooring system offshore Equatorial Guinea, enabling the prime contractor, Boskalis, to expand the InterMoor work scope. The Zafiro Producer…
Production of crude oil and natural gas began for Chevron Corp.’s Jack/St. Malo project in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The Jack/St Malo semisubmersible floating production unit. From Chevron…
Bluewater Energy Services has been picked by Saipem to provide engineering, procurement and construction work on the turret systems on Total's two Kaombo converted floating production units, destined for offshore Angola. Bluewater will…
Energy Maritime Associates (EMA) predicts US$130 billion will be spent on floating production units by 2018. A report by the Society of Petroleum Engineers said that continued expansion in the use of subsea production technologies, coupled…
Oil major Shell is planning to breath new life into its oldest North Sea floating production unit after acquiring new 4D seismic data last year. According to a partner on one of the fields produced by the Anasuria floating production…
ABB has been awarded a US$20 million contract to provide power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). The unit is being built to Sevan Marine's cylindrical design at Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum…
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) received a letter of award for a US$1.3 billion order for a floating production unit (FPU) and a US$700 million order for a tension leg platform (TLP) from Total E&P Congo, the company announced on 26 March 2013…