Offshore Installation News - page 49

 

Bechtel and Gulf Island join forces

Jul 25, 2014

Gulf Island Fabrication has signed a cooperation agreement with Bechtel Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, Inc. to work together on offshore projects for the US Gulf of Mexico and abroad. Gulf Island Fabrication will offer its fabrication experience…

DONG Hejre jacket installation

Jul 22, 2014

DONG Energy released a video showing the installation of the Hejre jacket that occurred on 23 May 2014. DONG Energy has installed the jacket for the Hejre platform in the Danish sector of the North Sea, 292km north west of Esbjerg…

Harkand secures Nexen UK contract

Jul 17, 2014

Subsea inspection, repair and maintenance and light construction firm Harkand has won Nexen Petroleum UK’s 2014 ROVSV inspection services work along with a longer term frame agreement. The inspection scope covers the Buzzard, Scott, Telford…

Aibel inks Statoil frame agreement

Jul 16, 2014

Norway's Aibel has topped a recent string of contacts with a framework agreement with Statoil covering the supply of personnel to Statoil's projects in Norway and abroad. The agreement is in addition to Aibel's existing framework agreements with Statoil and is valid for one year…

Wood Group buys Agility Projects

Jul 15, 2014

Wood Group has boosted its Norwegian offshore engineering capability by buying Agility Projects from Agility Group for about US$164 million.  Agility Projects is a Norwegian engineering, procurement, construction management, installation and commissioning company…

Latest HCDC platform installed

Jul 11, 2014

Siemens announced it has completed installation of the offshore platform for the direct-current connection HelWin2. Working under contract from the German-Dutch grid operator TenneT, Siemens has achieved a decisive milestone of the German grid connection projects…

Aibel awarded Oseberg contract

Jul 11, 2014

Statoil has awarded Aibel a contract for the hook-up of new living quarters to the Oseberg C platform. The contract has an estimated value of about NOK 125 million. The project, called the Oseberg C Continuous Drilling (LQ Extension) project…

HHI signs ADMA-OPCO facilities LOA

Jul 11, 2014

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has received a letter of award (LOA) from Abu Ahabi Marine Operating Compnay for a US$1.94 billion order for the second package of the Nasr Full Field Development Project. Under the LOA, HHI would undertake engineering…

Drydocks World completes rig refurbishment

Jul 09, 2014

Drydocks World announced the completion of a major refurbishment carried out on National Drilling Company’s (NDC) offshore drilling rig Al Ghallan. The project is part of a series of four rig repair and refurbishment projects signed with NDC in 2013…

Kongsberg Maritime to supply simulator

Jul 09, 2014

Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) announced it has selected Kongsberg Maritime’s K-Sim Offshore simulation platform to enhance crane operator training and the safe, efficient implementation of heavy lift operations. The contract was signed on 21 May…

Inpex adds to Lucius stake

Jul 09, 2014

Inpex subsidiary Teikoku Oil (North America) has acquired an additional stake in the deepwater Lucius field, located in the US Gulf of Mexico, the company announced on 9 July 2014. The Japanese explorer entered the Lucius partnership in 2012 after acquiring 7…

West Seahorse gets MPF backing

Jul 02, 2014

Carnarvon Hibiscus' West Seahorse project in the Gippsland basin, offshore southeastern Australia, has been granted access to Federal Government Major Project Facilitation (MPF) services.  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure…

EMAS AMC installs 50th platform for Chevron in Thailand

Jul 01, 2014

EMAS AMC, announced it has installed its 50th platform for Chevron in the Gulf of Thailand. Under a multi-year contract that began in 2011, EMAS AMC has also successfully laid 376km of subsea pipes utilizing the construction vessel Lewek Champion…

UK suppliers nab Mariner contracts

Jun 28, 2014

Statoil (UK) has awarded two five-year contracts to two UK firms for the Mariner ultra-heavy oil field, in the East Shetland Platform in part-block 9/11a in the UK North Sea. Aker Solutions' Aberdeen operations will perform maintenance and modification services for the US$7 billion project…

Subsea 7 receives heavy duty ORT's

Jun 27, 2014

Subsea 7, announced it has received a delivery of a consignment of acoustic release transponders and accompanying heavy duty release frames from Sonardyne International Ltd. The Oceanographic Release Transponders (ORTs) will be used, up to 17 at a time…

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