The floating production systems (FPS) has seen a return to activity in 2017, says analysts Westwood Global Energy Group. The firm says that in 2016 no FPS units were ordered. With two months of the year remaining, 11 units have been ordered this year…
Woodside Energy and its partners made the decision to invest US$1.9 billion in the Greater Enfield development in June this year. Located 60km off Exmouth in Western Australia, the Greater Enfield Project involves the tie-back of three…
An injunction stopping Petrobras selling 22.5% of its stake in the Iara area and transfering 35% stake in the Lapa field, both offshore Brazil, to Total has been lifted. The sale and transfer were part of a Strategic Alliance agreement signed with Total in March this year…
Japan's Inpex has been awarded an exploration permit for Release Area WA-532-P, close to its Ichthys LNG development, in Australia’s 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Inpex Browse will hold a 100% participating interest in the block…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered French oil major Total's deepwater Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel was completed at SHI's Geoje-shipyard under a US$3 billion turnkey project, and set sail for Nigeria on 31 October 2017…
BW Offshore subsidiary Sendje Berge has agreed the terms of a contract extension for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Sendje Berge with operator Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) for use on the Okwori field offshore Nigeria…
Premier Oil's Catcher development is on track for first oil by the end of the year with the project's floating production vessel now moored in field. The BW Catcher vessel, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore…
MODEC has signed a contract for supply, charter, and operations of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel with Brazil's Petrobras on 13 October 2017. The firm charter period of the contract is 21 years. The FPSO will be deployed at the Sépia field operated by Petrobras…
Singapore-based explorer KrisEnergy will proceed with the first phase of its Apsara oil field, the first hydrocarbon project offshore Cambodia, the company announced today (19 October). Phase 1A of the Apsara development, in Cambodia Block A in the Gulf of Thailand…
Norwegian energy consultancy Add Energy and Australian firm Transborders Energy (TBE) are working together, with help from MODEC and TechnipFMC, to create a fast deployment business model for floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) concept to access small-scale stranded resources…
Keppel Shipyard has won a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel conversion contract from SBM Offshore for ExxonMoibil's Liza development offshore Guyana. The contract is for the conversion of a very large crude carrier (VLCC) into an FPSO…
Ophir Energy has awarded an upstream construction for its Fortuna floating LNG project - west Africa's first deepwater FLNG project - to Schlumberger company OneSubsea and Subsea 7's Subsea Integration Alliance. The contract is an engineering…
i3 Energy has submitted its field development plan and environmental statement (ES) for the development of the Liberator field in the UK North Sea. i3 plans to tie the field into the Blake field host infrastructure, then through the…
Bluewater Energy's Aoka Mizu floating production unit has arrived at Drydocks World Dubai shipyard ready for works to prepare it for use on Hurricane Energy's Lancaster field early production system (EPS) development, west of Shetland. Drydocks…
Keppel Offshore & Marine's BrasFELS shipyard in Brazil has delivered the Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to MODEC. The FPSO was completed safely, on time and within budget…