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Ivar Aasen deck sets sail for Norway

Jun 06, 2016

The platform deck for the Ivar Aasen project is now on its way to Norway after sailaway from the yard area in Singapore on Monday. The platform deck will be lifted in place on the field in July. The platform deck is being shipped the…

Worley wins Johan Sverdrup fabrication work

Jun 03, 2016

Rosenberg WorleyParsons has been contracted to fabricate three bridges and two flare towers for the Johan Sverdrup field development. The contract, worth about NOK600 million, was awarded by Statoil. The fabrication and assembly will mainly be carried out in Stavanger…

SLP jacket installed at 0.01 degrees

Jun 01, 2016

The offshore substation jacket for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, made in Lowestoft by Sembmarine SLP, has been successfully installed in the seabed on site. The four-legged jacket, designed and built by Sembmarine SLP, stands at a near-perfect verticality of 0…

Montrose topsides sail out

Apr 11, 2016

Talisman's new Montrose bridge linked platform (BLP) topsides has sailed out from the Heerema Fabrication Group's Zwijndrecht yard, 12mi south of Rotterdam.  The 10,500-tonne, 75m-long, 40m-high, topsides will make a short stop off at Schiedam…

Life goes on

Apr 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin takes a look at the Dan Bravo complex offshore Denmark, which, at 44 years old, has a new lease on life thanks to some serious steel reinforcement. Divers installing the conductor guide frame…

Statoil starts Johan Sverdrup ULQ construction

Mar 31, 2016

Construction on the utility and living quarters on Norway's largest industrial project - the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea - has been marked by an apprentice at engineering firm Kvaerner and the country's minister for petroleum…

PSV construction time lapse video

Mar 15, 2016

Ship builder Ulstein Verft has released a time lapse video showing the construction of three platform supply vessels of the X-Bow PX121 design. First ordered by Blue Ship Invest, they are currently owned by NAO (Nordic American Offshore)…

Keppel FELS names Floatel's latest unit

Mar 11, 2016

Singapore's Keppel FELS is on track to deliver a fifth high-specification accommodation semisubmersible to Floatel International following the unit's naming ceremony today.  Once delivered, the Floatel Triumph semisubmersible, built to Keppel's proprietary SSAUTM 5000NG design…

Transocean delays five newbuilds to 2020

Mar 08, 2016

Global offshore drilling giant Transocean has set back the delivery date for five new jackup rigs by nearly four years.  In an agreement with rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine's shipyard, Keppel FELS, delivery of the five Super B 400…

The EPC perspective

Mar 01, 2016

OE’s Audrey Leon speaks with Scott Munro, McDermott’s Vice President, Americas, Europe and Africa, about recent projects undertaken at the company’s Altamira facility. PB-Litoral-A topsides floatover operations…

Water Standard bags Appomattox gig

Feb 16, 2016

Water treatment solutions company Water Standard secured a contract with Shell Offshore for the design, fabrication, testing, and shipment of an ultrapure water generation package (UWGP) to be integrated on Appomattox, Shell’s floating production system located in deepwater…

Kvaerner steady but slim new contract pickings

Feb 16, 2016

Norwegian engineering and construction firm Kvaerner says it has a healthy backlog but that there are few opportunities for new contracts in 2016 and 2017 looks uncertain.  The firm, which only posted a relatively small drop in revenues in 2015…

Aibel begins Sverdrup DSM module work

Feb 15, 2016

Aibel cut the first steel for the DSM module for Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup drilling platform at its Haugesund yard, where a busy period awaits until the platform is completed in 2018. Aibel expects to finish the DSM module come summer 2017…

Heerema bags two Oseberg Vestflanken 2 contracts

Feb 12, 2016

Statoil has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the unmanned wellhead platform at Oseberg Vestflanken 2, as well as the transport and installation of the platform…

Double win for Technip in Norway

Feb 11, 2016

Statoil has awarded Technip two lump sum contracts for infield pipeline construction on the Johan Sverdrup Development and the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 projects. Discovered in 2011, the Johan Sverdrup field is one of the largest oil fields in the North Sea…

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