Offshore engineering, construction, and support services firm Sembmarine SLP is investing in additional facilities in Lowestoft and Aberdeen. In Lowestoft, the company's Offshore Services Group has just moved into new premises at Newcombe House…
Russia’s Lukoil has commissioned Ramboll to perform pre-front end engineering and design (FEED) studies for the Yuri S. Kuvykin field in the Russian sector of the north Caspian Sea. Ramboll’s work will focus on a drilling complex and topside living quarters…
Wison Offshore & Marine will supply a barge-based floating LNG regasification unit (FRU), to be installed offshore India, for New Jersey-based Vessel Gasification Solutions (VGS). Under the agreement, Wison affiliates will be responsible for the turnkey engineering…
WGPSN has secured a five year contract extension to provide operations, maintenance and construction management services for asset facilities in central Africa, in a deal worth more than $140 million. The contract employs about 580 people…
Technip Norge AS has awarded Kvaerner a sub-contract for the fjord base and support services related to the upending and make-ready for mating operations of the substructure for the Aasta Hansteen spar platform (pictured at right). Kvaerner's…
PD&MS Energy has secured a three year contract to provide platform engineering services and upgrades for BP-operated projects in the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey region (AGT). The Aberdeen-based firm has options to extend the contract by an additional five years…
Chevron North Sea Ltd. will proceed with its high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) Alder field development in the North Sea after receiving regulatory approval. Discovered in 1975, Chevron says new technology has helped to unlock the central North Sea field…
UK-based engineering and project management firm AMEC has said it has made a provisional offer to buy Switzerland-headquartered Foster Wheeler AG for US$3.2 billion.Foster Wheeler is an international engineering, construction and project management contractor…
VAALCO Energy Inc. has said construction work on two production platforms for the additional development of the Etame Marin block offshore Gabon is continuing on schedule. One platform is due to be installed in the Etame field, and the…
Norwegian technology development firm Badger Explorer ASA has been awarded a NOK13.2 million funding to develop high pressure high pressure technology in its drilling units. Stavanger-based Badger is development rigless drilling technology…
Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC, awarded AMEC a six-year contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for Nexen's North Sea offshore assets. The work will cover operational modifications and brownfield projects…
KBR is to provide detailed engineering and procurement support services for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project in the Caspian Sea under a contract with BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Limited. This contract follows the completion of FEED services…
Astrakhan’s Krasnye Barrikady shipyard has started constructing the living quarter platform (LQP-2) for the second stage of Vladimir Filanovsky field developed by LUKOIL in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea. The shipyard will construct two bearing blocks…
Statoil awarded Aker Solutions a 10-year framework contract worth approximately US$105.8 million (NOK 650 million) for the North Sea Johan Sverdrup field. The first call-off is the front-end engineering design (FEED) work of the field center…
Partners behind the giant Johan Sverdrup discovery have said that a decision on the development has been delayed until the New Year. Statoil, Lundin and Det Norske had been due to agree concept selection on licenses PL501, PL265 and PL502 by the end of 2013…
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