Aker Solutions has won a contract from Statoil for front-end engineering and design of a new module to increase output at Troll, one of Norway's largest natural gas fields. The order includes an option for engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the module…
LQT Industries has been awarded aluminum accommodation modules to three platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to support drilling and production operations. The packages consist of 24 aluminum accommodations modules that will house approximately 136 personnel to support offshore operations…
Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with Norske Shell for the disposal and demolition of the Subsea Compression Pilot at Nyhamna. Image from Kvaerner. The scope of work consists…
The first of eight topside modules, which will make up Statoil's Mariner platform, have been installed offshore Shetland in the UK North Sea. The 10,000-tonne Mariner A utility module was lifted into place by the Saipem 7000 as planned…
Mammoet has successfully completed the process of weighing, transporting and lifting the modules of the P-76 FPSO platform for the Technip-Techint consortium at the Techint Offshore Unit in Pontal do Paraná - Brazil. Image of the P-76 FPSO…
Teledyne Gavia, manufacturer of the Gavia autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), has released a side scan/bathymetry module that incorporates US-based Klein Marine Systems’ UUV-3500 high-resolution side scan sonar with optional bathymetry sonar…
IKM Testing Thailand has been awarded the service contract by Aibel for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform. The platform deck for the drilling platform will comprise of three modules. Aibel is to build the largest module, the main support frame (MSF)…
ALE is approaching the final stages of its load-out operations for the Upper Zakum 750 Island Surface Facilities (UZ750) Project, based 84km offshore, northwest of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The heavy lifting contractor secured the scope to deliver almost 100 different modules to the north…
Aibel has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study into the installation of a new gas module on Statoil's Troll C platform offshore Norway. The contract also has an option for the implementation of the project itself…
Trelleborg has manufactured and delivered 52 vertical elastomeric bearings and 156 horizontal bearings for use on the 13 modules onboard Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, as well as 40 turret bogey bearings to enable natural movements of the turret…
Upper position outboard. Images from AXTech. Some companies are looking to reverse the trend of heavier duty vessels with complex deck equipment. Elaine Maslin looks into some lighter concepts…
Semco Maritime is conducting a heavy lift for the 147-room complete hotel module on board the Maersk Guardian to finalize a major conversion of the upcoming hotel rig. Image of the Maersk Guardian…
Heerema Marine Contractor's Thialf heavy lift vessel lifted the new subsea pump control module (PCM) onto Shell's Draugen platform offshore Norway late last month. The 220-tonne control module is the topside part of the subsea pump system…
Dutch firms Frames Group and Royal IHC have signed a joint development agreement to collaborate on the development of a compact subsea separator module. Royal IHC has experience in the design and supply of various subsea structures, equipment and modules…
Dutch offshore contractor Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Samsung Heavy Industries for the transportation of the three topside modules of the riser platform and the topside of the processing platform for the Johan Sverdrup project offshore Norway…