Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for use on Total's Egina FPSO. The order, worth about SEK 240 million…
Noble Energy announced successful results for the Katmai exploration well and the Dantzler-2 appraisal well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Katmai exploration well Noble is reporting great news at Katmai with total gross resources for the well estimated between 40 and 100MMboe…
Kongsberg Maritime division Kongsberg Maritime Engineering (KME) has won a contract to deliver an integrated control and safety system for the new BW Offshore Catcher FPSO. The contract follows BW Offshore’s signing of a lease and operate…
Australia's Sunbird Energy has the final scoping report under review for development of the Ibhubesi gas project off South Africa's Atlantic coast. South Africa granted final approvals in June for Sunbird Energy's acquisition of Block 2A from Denver-based Forest Oil Corp…
Houston-based ABS has been selected to class the Remora HiLoad dynamic positioning (DP) BR loading unit, a second generation of the HiLoad DP system that connects to and keeps conventional tankers in position during crude oil offloading from floating production installations…
The Cidade de Mangaratiba FPSO has begun its journey from the BrasFels shipyard in Angra dos Reis to the Iracema South area of Petrobras’ Lula field, offshore Rio de Janeiro. The FPSO will be connected to wells in the pre-salt layer of the Santos basin…
Bureau Veritas has been awarded a contract by Saipem to provide classification and certification services for the two FPSOs destined for the Kaombo development offshore Angola. The US$4 billion project for the FPSOs was awarded to Saipem by Total for the engineering…
ENI has confirmed a contract with Malaysia's Bumi Armada for an FPSO to be used on its deepwater East Hub field, in Block 15/06 offshore Angola. The contract, worth in total about US$3 billion, is a 12 year charter with eight yearly…
Cylindrical floating vessel firm Sevan Marine says it has a positive outlook with multiple leads for its technology, including FLNG technology and potential deals for floating production units on Premier Oil’s North Sea Bream field and Shell’s Penguins…
Husky-CNOOC Madura awarded Malaysia-based Bumi Armada Offshore Holdings and its joint venture company PT Armada Gema Nusantara a contract to provide the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Madura BD Field, approximately…
Dubai's Drydocks World has successfully completed turret modules 1 and 2 for the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility. This innovative FLNG facility will be stationed at Shell's Prelude gas field off the northwest coast of Australia…
Houston based drilling and floating production firm Northern Offshore is still considering options for its sole floating production platform (FPF), including divestment, as operator EnQuest eyes additional tie-ins to the unit. The semisubmersible…
First oil from EnQuest’s Alma/Galia development in the North Sea is now not expected until next year, the firm said today (August 13). First production from the field, due to be developed using the EnQuest Producer floating production…
Lundin's CEO has slated Shell and FPSO operator Bluewater for delays on the Brynhild project startup. Brynhild, which sits in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, will be a four-well subsea tieback to Bluewater’s Haewene Brim, which produces the Shell-operated Pierce field…
Petrobras announced drilling has started on the first exploration well on the Libra pre-salt area in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. Drilling on Libra, discovered in 2010, and estimated to contain 8-12 billion boe, comes as marine production…
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