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Largest FPSO to Operate Offshore Brazil Arrives to Its Destination

Oct 30, 2024

The floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit Almirante Tamandaré, built by SBM Offshore, has arrived to Brazil ahead of installation at Petrobras’ Búzios field in the Santos Basin.The Almirante Tamandaré FPSO has been built with the capacity to produce 225…

Subsea Digitalization: Remote Control

Oct 21, 2024

The more production infrastructure we push to the seabed, the more data we need to pull back up. With it comes opportunity.Chevron’s landmark 6,500 tons of subsea gas compression infrastructure for Jansz-Io demonstrates the scale of what is being put on the seabed…

Subsea7 Introduces New Barge Docking Method at Saudi Aramco’s Oil and Gas Project

Oct 18, 2024

Offshore services firm Subsea7 has completed all floatover installation operations using an innovative installation method on Saudi Aramco’s oil and gas project offshore Saudi Arabia.Subsea7 used only tugs and soft mooring lines connected to…

MCDermott Gets Pipelines and Cables Job at Qatar's Giant Gas Field

Oct 03, 2024

McDermott has secured an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by QatarEnergy LNG for the North Field South (NFS) offshore pipelines and cables project, part of the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project…

ABS Gives Its Blessing to SHI’s Ammonia FPSO Design

Oct 02, 2024

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued an approval in principle (AIP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its new design of an ammonia floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit.Called Samsung Ammonia Blue, the concept features…

Aker Solutions to Prepare Equinor’s Troll A Platform for New Gas from Troll West

Sep 30, 2024

Norwegian offshore engineering and construction firm Aker Solutions has secured an EPCIC contract from Equinor to prepare the topside of Troll A for accelerating production from the Troll West gas reservoir.The Troll field is located in the North Sea…

TotalEnergies Starts Production at Fenix Gas Field Offshore Argentia

Sep 20, 2024

TotalEnergies has started the production from the Fenix gas field, off the coast of Tierra del Fuego in Southern Argentina.The Fenix field, located 60 km offshore, is part of the Cuenca Marina Austral 1 (CMA-1) concession, in which TotalEnergies holds a 37…

Saipem Bags $2B Saudi Aramco Contract for Marjan Field

Sep 18, 2024

Italian offshore energy services firm Saipem has secured a new offshore contract, under the existing Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with Saudi Aramco, for the development of the Marjan field in Saudi Arabia.Saipem’s scope of work involves the engineering…

Golar Takes FID for MK II FLNG

Sep 17, 2024

Golar LNG signed an agreement with CIMC Raffles for a MK II Floating LNG Production (FLNG) vessel with an annual liquefaction capacity of 3.5 million tons of LNG per annum (mtpa).Black & Veatch will provide its licensed PRICO® technology, perform detailed engineering and process design…

Repsol Hires IKM Operations for Inspection Work at Three Fields Off Norway

Sep 09, 2024

Repsol Norge has selected IKM Operations as the provider of integrity management services at three oil and gas fields offshore Norway.The scope of work includes engineering tasks and inspections at Repsol Norge topside facilities and subsea installations and pipelines at the Yme…

Seatrium Hires KBR on Topsides Job for FPSOs Bound for Petrobras Brazil Fields

Sep 06, 2024

U.S.-based engineering and construction giant KBR has been hired by Seatrium to develop topsides facilities for two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, being designed for Petrobras’ Atapu and Sepia fields in the Santos Basin…

McDermott Decommissions Offshore Platform in Australia

Sep 03, 2024

McDermott has completed the decommissioning of the Campbell platform and associated offshore infrastructure at the Varanus Island hub in Western Australia.Under a contract awarded to McDermott in January 2024 by Santos, the company provided engineering…

Smulders, Sif to Deliver Offshore Substations and Transition Pieces for Polish OW Farms

Sep 03, 2024

Equinor and Polenergia, the developers of the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland, have hired Smulders for the delivery of substations for both Baltic Sea developments, which will also work in consortium with Sif for the manufacturing of 100 transition pieces…

RWE Installs HVDC Converter Platform at Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

Sep 02, 2024

RWE has installed an offshore converter platform at 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, its largest offshore wind development under construction in UK waters.The offshore converter platform (OCP), which converts high voltage alternating current (AC) to high voltage direct current (DC)…

BP Picks Designers for Kaskida FPU in the US Gulf of Mexico

Aug 21, 2024

BP has selected Exmar Offshore and Audubon Engineering Company to complete engineering and design of a floating production unit (FPU) destined for the British supermajor's deepwater Kaskida development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Exmar Offshore…

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