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Pipelay market outlook

Sep 01, 2015

Audrey Leon spoke with Infield Systems’ analysts James Hall and Wei Liu to get the bigger picture. According to Infield Systems, the offshore pipeline installation market over the next 12 months will be challenging. Infield has revised…

Total to sell UK pipelines, terminal in US$905 million deal

Aug 27, 2015

Total has agreed to sell all of its interests in the FUKA and SIRGE gas pipelines and the St. Fergus Gas Terminal in a US$905 million (£585 million) deal. Subject to regulatory approvals, the assets will be bought by North Sea Midstream Partners…

Final Cygnus module sets sail

Jul 21, 2015

GDF Suez' Cygnus Alpha compression module (ACM) sailed away from Heerema Fabrication Group's Hartlepool facility on the night of 20 July, marking the completion of last of four main structures built at the facility for the Cygnus development…

Petrofac to run ONE's Sean facility

Jun 04, 2015

Petrofac has been selected as duty holder for newly appointed southern North Sea Sean field operator Oranje-Nassau Energie (ONE), as of 1 June. Dutch operator ONE made its first step into UK waters when it bought a 50% stake in and took…

Global FSRU demand ramps up

Apr 27, 2015

This year, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Uruguay plan to begin importing natural gas via floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) vessels. The vessels are a solution to the challenge of importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) into areas…

Wärtsilä proceeding with first LNG terminal

Dec 19, 2014

Wärtsilä has been given full notice to proceed (NTP) from Manga LNG Oy for the supply of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Tornio, Northern Finland. Illustration of the LNG terminal. From Wärtsilä…

ONEgas renews AMEC contract

Feb 13, 2014

UK-based engineering and project management firm AMEC and its partners in the AJS joint venture, Jacobs and Stork, have secured a five-year contract extension for the integrated services contract for the Shell ONEgas assets in the southern North Sea…

Wärtsilä to supply LNG in Finland

Jan 10, 2014

Wärtsilä signed a turnkey contract to supply a LNG receiving terminal to be built in Tornio, northern Finland. The contract, valued at about US $136 million, was made with Manga LNG Oy, a joint venture between Finnish companies Outokumpu Group…

AMEC to hook up Cygnus

Nov 14, 2013

Engineering group AMEC has been awarded the hook up and commissioning (HUC) support contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development. The HUC support contract for the four Cygnus platforms follows on from a front end engineering…

Hansa picks up gas field stakes

Aug 12, 2013

Hansa Hydrocarbons is to acquire stakes in three southern North Sea gas fields from a subsidiary of Noble Energy. Under an agreement with Noble Energy Capital Limited, it will gain 24% equity interest in the Malory field, 25% in the Guinevere field and 2% in the Lancelot field…

CNOOC repairs Zhuhai pipeline

Jun 20, 2013

China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) confirmed that the Zhuhai Terminal has been restored to normal production following the discovery of a leak at a subsea natural gas pipeline in December 2011. In 2011, CNOOC placed normal production at the Zhuhai Terminal at 160 Mcf/d or 26…

Asset integrity and life extension: Key themes at SNS

Apr 15, 2013

Elaine Maslin reports on the Southern North Sea 2013 Conference, organized by East of England Group With a large fleet of often unmanned and aging platforms, operators in the predominantly gas producing Southern North Sea (SNS) are having to face asset integrity issues head on…

Shell, Kinder Morgan team up for US LNG exports

Mar 28, 2013

Shell teamed up with Kinder Morgan’s Southern Liquefaction to develop a natural gas liquefaction plant at Southern LNG’s Elba Island terminal near Savannah, Georgia, US. The partners plan to modify the Elba Express Pipeline and the Elba Island…

Green light for Cygnus gas giant

Sep 01, 2012

A flurry of early contracts marked August's official sanction of the £1.4 billion development of Cygnus, the largest southern North Sea gas discovery in the last 25 years. Meg Chesshyre reports.GDF Suez, which will operate Cygnus on behalf of partners Centrica and Bayerngas…

Southern comfort for UK gas men

Apr 01, 2011

A more optimistic view of the future of the southern North Sea gas and the hard-pressed East of England offshore supply chain emerged at a recent regional conference in Norwich. Meg Chesshyre reports.Having acquired assets from BP, Shell and BG in 2003 and ExxonMobil fields in 2007…

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