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Statoil eyes dry tree alternative

Aug 22, 2014

Statoil has put its money where its mouth is and awarded engineering firm Kvaerner a concept study related to a standardized, unmanned dry tree wellhead platform for the Oseberg Future Development project. Having an unmanned dry tree…

Hejre jacket sets sail

May 20, 2014

The 8500-tonne launch jacket for DONG's Hejre field offshore Denmark has sailed from Heerema Fabrication Group's Heerema Vlissingen facility in the Netherlands (pictured). HFG's contract, which was with Technip, covered the procurement and construction of a jacket…

Plexus grows North Africa business

Apr 23, 2014

Oil and gas engineering services business Plexus Holdings has been awarded a contract with Galp Energia Tarfya to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well offshore Morocco. At its March capital markets day…

Senergy joins Plexus JIP

Feb 25, 2014

Lloyds Register Group subsidiary Senergy has joined oil and gas engineering services firm Plexus Holdings' on-going joint industry project (JIP) to develop and commercialize a new and safer subsea wellhead, using Plexus' patented POS-GRIP technology…

AWE to install subsea wellhead

Feb 19, 2014

Australia’s AWE reported that the Pateke-4H development well was at a measured depth of 1507m. A 13 3/8-in casing was ran to the planned depth of 1504m. Preparations are being made to cement the casing and prepare for the installation of the subsea wellhead…

Maersk Denmark uses Plexus

Feb 12, 2014

Plexus Holdings has been awarded its first contract with Maersk Oil’s Danish business unit to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the Danish North Sea. The initial value of the contract is about £1…

Wintershall renewing Plexus contract

Feb 10, 2014

Oil and gas engineering services business Plexus Holdings has announced an agreement to renew for an additional three years a supply contract with Wintershall Noordzee for surface wellhead and mudline equipment services in the Dutch North Sea…

FMC wins Pemex contract for wellheads

Jan 24, 2014

FMC Technologies Inc.  announced today that it signed a 3-year contract with Pemex Exploration and Production to manufacture and supply surface wellheads to support drilling and well maintenance programs in the Gulf of Mexico. The award…

JIP addresses subsea wellhead monitoring

Jan 15, 2014

Bernard Herman van Bilderbeek, CEO of Plexus Group, explains how its friction-grip technology can be applied to subsea wellheads Since early 2000, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), formerly the Minerals Management Service (MMS)…

Corac developing in-pipe gas compressor

Oct 08, 2013

Corac Group subsidiary Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed an amendment to its contract with Aramco Overseas Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, for a revised scope of work to develop an in-pipe gas compressor (IGC).  The amendment will enable CET to support the design…

GE wins subsea deal

Jul 11, 2013

GE Oil & Gas and Pemex Exploration and Production have signed an US$84 million agreement for the supply and installation of subsea wellheads for Pemex’s deepwater and ultra-deepwater drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico. GE will supply SMS800 and DWHC 700 high capacity wellheads…

Plexus nets ENI order down under

Jul 02, 2013

Engineering services firm Plexus Holdings has picked up its first order with Italy's ENI for work offshore Australia. The contract, worth about £280,000, is with ENI's Australian subsidiary and is for the supply of 10,000psi POS-GRIP…

FMC wins $26M subsea order for Bayu Undan project

May 15, 2013

ConocoPhillips Ltd. Australia Pty Ltd. has awarded FMC Technologies an order to supply subsea equipment for its Bayu Undan Phase 3 project. The order has an estimated value of US $26 million. The Bayu Undan field is located in the Timor Sea…

Heerema wins Hejre jacket, wellhead deck

Apr 02, 2013

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) in the Netherlands has received the contract from Technip France for the Procurement and Fabrication of the DONG Hejre jacket, piles and pre-drilling wellhead deck destined for the Hejre oil & gas field located in the central part of the North Sea offshore Denmark…

Meeting the chemical injection challenge

Nov 01, 2012

As offshore operators get into deeper waters and develop more mature oil & gas fields using more complex well architectures, continuous downhole injection of chemicals is increasingly required to manage challenges such as scale formation or asphaltene precipitation within the wellbore…

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