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GMC completes Energean buoyant tower design

Apr 15, 2015

GMC Ltd. has just completed the basic design of a self-installing buoyant tower for the Prinos field development, located in the northern Aegean Sea, offshore Greece for Energean Oil and Gas. 
 
 Image from GMC Ltd…

Subsea 7 chooses FES DBSC

Apr 15, 2015

Subsea 7 awarded FES International a contract for the supply of fully automated diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSCs). DBSCs are one of FES’s most successful product lines and this is the 10th fully automatic end fitting release system DBSC…

Amec Foster Wheeler gets US$73.9 million BP work

Apr 15, 2015

BP awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a US$73.9 million, five-year contract to provide operations, maintenance and project support for the Forties Pipeline System (which includes the Unity offshore platform and onshore pumping stations in Aberdeenshire…

Sub-$70/bbl oil unsustainable - Rystad

Apr 15, 2015

An oil price below US$70/bbl will not be sustainable long term, according to Norwegian energy analysts Rystad Energy.  Speaking at the firm’s offices in Oslo, senior analyst Audun Martinsen outlined how the firm sees current global liquids…

Far from dead

Apr 15, 2015

Never let a good crisis go to waste, an industry conference in Oslo, Norway, had been told this morning,  Image from Aker. The phrase, used by former UK Prime Minister and wartime…

Bumi Armada signs US$300 million FSU deal

Apr 14, 2015

Malaysia-based Bumi Armada Berhad’s wholly owned subsidiaries Armada Floating Gas Storage Malta (AFG Storage) and Armada Floating Gas Services Malta (AFG Services) entered into a US$300 million deal with ElectroGas Malta (EGM) for the conversion…

WGPSN awarded Enquest contract

Apr 14, 2015

EnQuest awarded Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) a five-year contract to provide engineering, design, construction, procurement and commissioning services to the Thistle, Heather and Northern Producer offshore assets in the North Sea. The contract…

Technip in Triton subsea gig

Apr 14, 2015

Dana Petroleum awarded Technip a brownfield subsea contract for the Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the central North Sea. Image from Dana Petroleum. This…

Edvard Grieg module loadout

Apr 14, 2015

In this video, Lundin Petroleum shows the loading of the 16,000-tonne of steel and equipment comprised of both the main deck module and the process module for the Edvard Grieg platform onto barges, that occurred in the last days of March 2015…

Edvard Grieg topside complete

Apr 14, 2015

The 22,000-tonne topside for the new offshore platform for the Lundin Norway-operated Edvard Grieg field is ready for delivery, in line with the contract awarded three years ago. Image of the Edvard Grieg project…

Nexans powers Gullfaks subsea compression station

Apr 13, 2015

The Statoil-operated Gullfaks gas field in the Norwegian Sea will use Nexans' innovative power umbilicals combining power, fiber-optic and hydraulic lines in a single cross section. The cables were handed over to Statoil this month.  The…

Statoil hits again at Aasta Hansteen

Apr 13, 2015

Statoil confirmed its second discovery in the Aasta Hansteen area with the Roald Rygg prospect in the Norwegian Sea. Map of Roald Rygg. From Statoil.   The gas discovery was made at…

Containment toolkit to aid subsea well incident response

Apr 10, 2015

Oil Spill Response Ltd. (OSRL) and the Subsea Well Response Project (SWRP) delivered a containment toolkit, which can be used to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. Image from SWRP…

TGS/Polarcus to shoot offshore Norway

Apr 10, 2015

Norway-based seismic services firm TGS has signed a letter of award (LOA) with Polarcus DMCC to acquire 3000sq km of 3D seismic data offshore Norway with a potential extension of up to a total of 7000sq km. The activity is expected to…

Siemens/Statoil launch subsea hydraulic power unit

Apr 10, 2015

German multinational Siemens and Norwegian operator Statoil have jointly developed and qualified a subsea hydraulic power unit (SHPU) for use in offshore oil and gas fields in order to provide hydraulic power right at the well site. The…

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