Heerema Fabrication Group News

 

First steel cut on Culzean jackets

Dec 18, 2015

Heerema Fabrication Group has marked the first steel for Maersk Oil's Culzean development jackets at its yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. HFG has contracts for fabricating the central processing facility, utilities and livings quarters and well head platform jackets for the high-pressure…

Alba B3 platform leaves for African waters

Dec 02, 2015

Marathon Oil subsidiary Marathon Equatorial Guinea Production Ltd. (MEGPL) will soon receive delivery of the Alba B3 compression platform at the Abla gas and condensate field offshore Central Africa, as the platform left Heerema Fabrication Group’s (HFG) yard off Europe this week…

HFG focuses on new-tech, hi-tech at new center

Nov 06, 2015

Dutch engineering and fabrication firm Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has opened its new Heerema Innovation Center, where it plans to develop next-generation welding robots, and use latest gaming and data processing technology.  The center is cloes to HFG's Zwijndrecht headquarters…

Alba B3 ready for Equatorial Guinea

Nov 05, 2015

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has loaded out the Alba B3 jacket and topsides ahead of its sail away to Equatorial Guinea, planned for the end of this month.  The 2000-ton, four-legged jacket, built at the Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands…

Heerema gets second Culzean contract

Sep 02, 2015

Image: Culzean platform/Heerema Fabrication Group Maersk Oil North Sea UK has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) a second contract for structures on its ultra-high-pressure, high-temperature (uHPHT) Culzean development in the North Sea…

Fast fabrication

Sep 01, 2015

Meg Chesshyre talks to Heerema Fabrication Group CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven about the firm’s latest projects. Cygnus PU sail away. Photos from Heerema Fabrication Group.  Heerema…

Final Cygnus module sets sail

Jul 21, 2015

GDF Suez' Cygnus Alpha compression module (ACM) sailed away from Heerema Fabrication Group's Hartlepool facility on the night of 20 July, marking the completion of last of four main structures built at the facility for the Cygnus development…

BG starts renewables-powered platform

Jul 08, 2015

First oil has been produced from the Mukta-B (MB), a four legged renewables-powered unmanned wellhead platform in the offshore Bombay basin, India. The project marked several firsts, including the use of green technology involving hybrid…

Heerema Zwijndrecht secures Oranje-Nassau Energie contract

Jul 06, 2015

Heerema Zwijndrecht, one of the yards of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has secured a contract from Oranje-Nassau Energie for the procurement and construction of a topside and jacket. It concerns an unmanned and sustainable satellite platform for the P11-E field…

Heerema sends launch jacket to Gina Krog

Jun 22, 2015

With the sail away on Friday 19 June 2015, Gina Krog, the largest launch jacket ever built by Vlissingen yard of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), is ready for installation. The launch jacket for client Statoil and its partners began its journey…

Imtech works on Marathon's Alba platform

Mar 23, 2015

Imtech Marine is supplying a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system to the 6000-tonne Alba B3 greenfield compression platform, currently under construction for Marathon E.G. Production. To be located in Equatorial Guinea…

BP starts up Kinnoull

Dec 30, 2014

Production from the Kinnoull field in the North Sea has started, operator BP said this morning. The Kinnoull field, BP's seventh and final major project in 2014, has been developed as part of the Andrew field area rejuvenation, extending production there by a decade…

Golden Eagle starts production

Nov 03, 2014

China's CNOOC has announced first oil on the US$3.3 billion UK North Sea Golden Eagle Area Development (GEAD).  The development, comprising separate production and wellhead platforms and two subsea production systems, is producing about 18…

2H secures Kaombo contract

Aug 13, 2014

Heerema Marine Contractors chose 2H Offshore to engineer hybrid risers for Total’s Kaombo Block 32 project offshore Luanda, Angola in 1400-1900m water depth. 2H Offshore's scope of work includes performing part of the detailed engineering…

Positive outlook

Aug 04, 2014

The HelWin Beta platform, on its way out to sea. Photos from HFG. The North Sea is set to continue to provide work for fabricators for 10-20 more years, says Heerema Fabrication Group’s CEO…

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