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Siemens opens Gulf Coast facility

Apr 12, 2017

Siemens has officially opened the doors of a new service center in Geismar, Louisiana, devoted to serving the region’s oil and gas industry, and related markets.  With 28,000sq ft of shop floor space, the service center can repair and…

Wood Group wins Snore FEED contract

Apr 11, 2017

Wood Group has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide front end engineering design (FEED) to the subsea flowline system of the Snorre Expansion Project (SEP) in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract will be delivered by Wood Group’s Stavanger…

Hansa completes Jangkrik Complex Project delivery

Apr 11, 2017

Hansa Heavy Lift has successfully transported two dozen reels, as well as a range of subsea equipment for the Jangkrik Complex Project, off the coast of Indonesia.  HHL Richards Bay picked up the cargo at three different ports: Rosyth…

Aqualis Offshore opens Taiwan office

Apr 11, 2017

Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore, part of Oslo-listed Aqualis, has opened up an office in Taiwan to support local offshore wind and oil and gas developments.  The purpose of the office is to promote Aqualis Offshore’s marine and engineering services locally…

Statoil gets Barents Blåmann permit

Apr 10, 2017

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for well 7121/8-1, named Blåmann in the Barents Sea. Well 7121/8-1 will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, after completing the…

NPD grants Aker BP Volund permit

Apr 10, 2017

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for well 24/9-11 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 24/9-11 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility, at position 59°29’6…

Lamprell delivers Shelf Drilling jackup

Apr 07, 2017

Shelf Drilling, Ltd. has taken delivery of its second newbuild jackup rig – Shelf Drilling Krathong (SDK) – from Lamprell. The rig was delivered within budget and on-time. It is scheduled to depart for Thailand by 20 April 2017 where it commences operations for Chevron Thailand…

TechnipFMC wins Hydraulic Institute award

Apr 07, 2017

TechnipFMC, a longstanding engineering partner of Sulzer, has won the Hydraulic Institute Award for Innovation and Technology for its innovative products and solutions. The company was recognized during a ceremony at the Institute’s Centennial Celebration Gala in Florida…

Trelleborg completes Catcher elastomeric bearings

Apr 06, 2017

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation recently completed a milestone project for BW Offshore for the complete in-house design and fabrication of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) elastomeric bearing structures. Supplied to Premier Oil's Catcher FPSO in 2016…

Well-Centric, Hunting win asset maintenance contract

Apr 06, 2017

Late life-cycle integrity specialists, Well-Centric and Hunting, have been awarded an approximately US$6.2 million (£5 million) contract by a major North Sea exploration and production operator. The collaboration will see Well-Centric and Hunting join forces to provide maintenance…

PSA gives Polarled commissioning consent

Apr 05, 2017

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Gassco consent to use the Polarled pipeline. Polarled is a new gas pipeline from Aasta Hansteen in the Norwegian Sea to the Nyhamna gas-processing facility in Møre og Romsdal county…

NEL invests in subsea CoE

Apr 05, 2017

A new US$19.9 million (£16 million) Center of Excellence (CoE) for subsea development is to be established in East Kilbride, Scotland and will be led by TÜV SÜD Ltd. (NEL), a provider of research and development, consultancy and testing to the international oil and gas industry…

Eni increases computing power

Apr 04, 2017

Eni started up its new HPC3 (high performance computing) in the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, Italy. HPC3 allows Eni to fully support all the activities in the exploration and production sector.  Together with the co-existing HPC2 system…

TGS expands NWAAM library

Apr 04, 2017

TGS has expanded its North-West African Atlantic Margin (NWAAM) multi-client library in the MSGBC Basin with plans to acquire more than 11,000km of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data together with magnetic and gravity data, in Senegal and Gambia…

SNC-Lavalin weighs Atkins acquisition

Apr 03, 2017

Montreal-based engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin has expressed interest in acquiring UK-based engineering firm Atkins Global for cash consideration of £2.08 billion (US$2.6 billion). Neil Bruce…

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