JSC Yamal LNG awarded Technip a major engineering, procurement and construction for the 16 mtpa-capacity Yamal LNG project in Russia, the French company announced 15 May 2014. Technip said it has been involved in planning, engineering and…
The Eldfisk 2/7 S topside left Kvaerner's yard at Stord, Norway, today, bound for its installation site at Eldfisk, about 300km from Norway’s coastline (pictured). The Eldfisk 2/7 S topside consists of one combined living quarter and utility module and a combined process and wellhead module…
A year of significant construction work on the Cygnus gas project by Burntisland Fabrication (BiFab) came to fruition recently as major infrastructure sailed out from the yard in Methil, Fife. Operator GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd (38.75%) and partners Centrica Energy (48…
OVERDICK announced that the BorWin beta topsides has been successfully installed in the German sector of the North Sea, about 53nm NNW of the island of Borkum. The step marks the completion of the most critical phase in the offshore campaign…
ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc. has successfully installed the topsides of Tapis R offshore platform at the Tapis field off Terengganu, Malaysia. Tapis R— one of the largest offshore platform in Southeast Asia—is a part of the US$3…
Ocean Installer has been awarded its first subsea installation job in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The work will be on a large deepwater producing field, in more than 1800m water depth, and involves installting and testing umbilicals and associated equipment…
Peter Wertheim discusses subsea technology woth Nelson Leite, president of FMC Technologies Brazil. Subsea processing and boosting are fundamental for developing challenging fields. Benefits increase with water depths, flow rates and stepout…
Tonbridge based independent subsea engineering firm Jee Ltd. won a seven-year EPCI contract for work offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The client is unnamed. The contract’s scope encompasses the project’s offshore loading system (OLS)…
This animation depicts the standard installation of a communications riser cable for an oil and gas platform, performed by TE SubCom's cable ships and submersible tools.
McDermott International has signed an agreement with PD Ports which paves the way for McDermott to operate a spoolbase to serve projects in the North Sea. McDermott says it expects to have the facility, at the Port of Hartlepool, northeast England…
Nearly US$8 billion worth of contracts on the Kaombo mega-project offshore Angola have been announced today, following operator Total’s final investment decision on the project on Monday. An alliance between Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors has won an engineering…
Offshore grouting contractor FoundOcean has secured two contracts on the Solan oil field development west of the Shetland in the North Sea. The contracts, with Heerema Marine Contractors and Bibby Offshore,& cover structural grouting on the 8000-tonne Solan platform jacket and its 300…
Noble Energy and EMAS have signed a letter of agreement (LOA) for installation work on Noble's Gunflint project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The agreement calls for EMAS’ Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, to perform the offshore installation of pipelines…
A normally unattended self-installing floating tower (SIFT) design has been selected as the development option for the North Sea Fyne development, the operator has revealed. The design has been supplied by GMC Inc., which has a partnership with Enegi Oil…
Production has started on the first new Statoil-operated platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf since 2005. The Gudrun oil and gas field, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, is also the first new to be operated by Statoil from the Stavanger region since Sleipner in 1993…
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