Keppel Shipyard says it is on track to deliver the Catcher floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to BW Catcher following a naming ceremony of the vessel today (28 April). BW Catcher - the 11th FPSO Keppel has delivered…
Yinson Clover Ltd. (YCL), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysian offshore services provider Yinson Holdings, was awarded a contract from Talisman Vietnam 07/03 BV (TLV) for the supply, operation and maintenance of a floating production…
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Keppel FloaTEC has won a US$40 million contract for design and management support work on the first three-column tension leg wellhead platform. The contract, from PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C)…
Rolls-Royce has been chosen by Norway-based engineering and construction services firm Kvaerner to provide a mooring system for Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil’s oil platform, Njord A. Njord A is being upgraded by Kvaerner and Rolls…
Private equity backed independent Alpha Petroleum Resources is targeting first oil from its UK North Sea Cheviot oil field in 2019, after entering agreements with floating production system provider Teekay. Alpha expects to achieve…
Wood Group was awarded a multi-year contract from Karoon Petróleo & Gás to provide owner’s engineering services to support the full field development for the Echidna field offshore Brazil marking the first project between the two companies…
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…
Polymer steel composite repairs are becoming a popular solution for worn out plates in the growing floating production vessel fleet. Elaine Maslin reports. The FPF3 on station. Images from Intelligent Engineering…
International compressor supplier TMC Compressors (TMC) has completed its delivery of a marine compressed air system to BW Offshore’s Catcher floating production, and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel. The system consists of 3 x 185…
Eni’s Jangkrik floating production unit (FPU) is ready to set sail to the deepwater Kutei Basin offshore Indonesia, with first gas forecasted for June. Image of the Jangkrik ceremony, from Eni Twitter…
French supermajor Total has started production from its Moho Nord deepwater development, 75km offshore Congo. The project, with 100,000 b/d capacity, is the biggest oil development to date in Congo and one of 10 developments Total is due to start-up in the next 17 months globally…
ExxonMobil is looking to make a final investment decision on its Liza discovery offshore Guyana this year, with first oil expected by 2020, less than five years since its discovery. In an investor presentation yesterday (1 March), the…
Artificial neural networks are being used to help design floating production system hulls in the concept and front-end engineering phases. Elaine Maslin reports. Libra and her possible smaller…
Ophir Production has contracted a vessel for its Ophir floating production field development offshore Malaysia. The tanker Puteri Bangsa will be converted into the MTC Ledang floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit by Malaysian firm MTC Engineering for use on the Ophir field…
Sparrows Group has secured a five-year contract to deliver hydraulic, lifting and rigging services for Maersk Oil’s UK floating assets. The agreement will see Sparrows support the operator in strengthening its lifting operations for the…
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