Heerema Fabrication Group News

 

Oseberg topside, jacket set sail

Jun 26, 2017

The topside and jacket for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 unmanned wellhead platform set sail on 25 and 26 June respectively from Heerema Fabrication Group’s (HFG) Heerema Zwijndrecht yard in the Netherlands. The platform and jacket will be…

Heerema inks Peregrino II jacket deal

May 16, 2017

Image of Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven, CEO, Heerema Fabrication Group; and Martijn Smit, general manager, South Atlantic Holding, signing the contract. Image from Heerema.  Heerema…

Slim pickings

Jan 01, 2017

There are slim pickings for fabricators in oil and gas sector, but as Steve Hamlen reports offshore wind fabrication has given firms some sustenance. Dudgeon jacket. Photos from Sembmarine SLP…

Wood Group, HFG sign NCS MOU

Dec 06, 2016

Wood Group and Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for joint efforts to offer wellhead platform development, from design to installation, hook-up and commissioning, to clients on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…

HFG to cut 450 jobs

Nov 02, 2016

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) will cut 450 jobs, amounting to 58% of its workforce, as part of restructuring efforts amid ongoing poor market conditions. Image of Zwijndrecht yard, from HFG. The cuts…

Keeping busy

Aug 01, 2016

Meg Chesshyre speaks with Heerema Fabrication Group’s CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven about the firm’s activity in both the oil and gas and renewable markets. The Culzean wellhead jacket, under construction…

Marathon sees first gas from Alba B3

Jul 14, 2016

Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. has achieved first gas production from its new Alba B3 offshore compression platform, offshore Equatorial Guinea, which will help more than double the company’s remaining proved developed reserve base in the West Africa area…

VIDEO: Gina Krog topsides sail to Norway

Jul 05, 2016

Statoil's Gina Krog platform is getting closer to first oil after the modules for the facility's topside set sail from Korea on two heavy transport vessels, Statoil has said. The transport from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Korea to the North Sea will take about 50 days…

Statoil's Oseberg Vestflanken 2 approved

Jun 14, 2016

Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has given Statoil the green light to move forward with the development of its unmanned Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project that is expected to tap some 110 MMboe in the North Sea. Illustration…

Culzean wellhead jacket sets sail

Apr 13, 2016

The wellhead jacket and the access deck have set sail from the Netherlands and are headed for Maersk Oil’s ultra high pressure, high temperature Culzean development in the UK North Sea. Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) announced the completion of both projects…

Montrose topsides sail out

Apr 11, 2016

Talisman's new Montrose bridge linked platform (BLP) topsides has sailed out from the Heerema Fabrication Group's Zwijndrecht yard, 12mi south of Rotterdam.  The 10,500-tonne, 75m-long, 40m-high, topsides will make a short stop off at Schiedam…

Petrofac awards HFG platform fabrication contract

Mar 04, 2016

Petrofac has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) an AFC contract to fabricate the substation platform for Galloper Wind Farm (GWFL). Heerema Hartlepool is fabricating the unmanned offshore substation platform. Project engineering…

Heerema bags two Oseberg Vestflanken 2 contracts

Feb 12, 2016

Statoil has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the unmanned wellhead platform at Oseberg Vestflanken 2, as well as the transport and installation of the platform…

Statoil awards $185 million for three fields

Feb 03, 2016

Norwegian giant Statoil handed out several contracts worth more than US$185 million (NOK 1.6 billion)for its Oseberg Vestflanken 2, Johan Sverdrup, and Ging Krog fields offshore Norway. CEO Steinar Riise is signing the contract for Ocean Installer…

Alba B3 installed offshore Equatorial Guinea

Jan 21, 2016

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) says Marathon's Alba B3 topside and jacket have now been installed offshore Equatorial Guinea.  The 2000-ton, four-legged jacket, built at HFG's Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands, supports the 4500-ton B3 compression platform…

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