The global marine and offshore vessel management and support services provider V.Group said that its V.Ships Leisure unit has been awarded a contract by Antarctica21 for the technical management of the expedition vessel, Magellan Explorer.The…
French state-owned bank Bpifrance and oil services company TechnipFMC have filed a complaint against Naval Group for willful misrepresentation, a source close to the matter told Reuters, confirming a story in Challenges magazine.The complaint…
Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (DEME)'s Board of Directors announced that with effect from January 1, 2019 Luc Vandenbulcke will succeed Alain Bernard as the company’s CEO…
Elaine Maslin looks at some of the ongoing and proposed FLNG projects around the globe (First published in the December 2017 OE, access the full issue here). West Africa has seen a good amount of floating LNG project activity this year with three developments underway…
With the entry of ExxonMobil, East Africa has entered the gas business for the long term. Can South Africa catch up? EIC’s Andrew Scutter sets the scene. Over the last decade, recent oil and gas discoveries across East Africa have made the region a key frontier for hydrocarbon exploration…
Wood Group has completed its 'transformational' US$2.7 billion acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler. Image from Wood Group. Meanwhile, WorleyParsons has entered into a binding…
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), has announced a second major contract for Eni East Africa’s (EEA) Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The contract was awarded by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation…
SOFEC, a MODEC Group company, has been awarded the turret mooring system supply contract for Eni's Coral South Project. The contract was awarded by TechnipFMC and JGC Corp. joint venture is is for the engineering, procurement and construction…
Yinson Holdings has signed a heads of agreement with a consortium of Japanese companies to divest 26% stake of Yinson’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Yinson Production (West Africa). The deal, worth between US$104-$117 million, is with the JV comprised of Sumitomo Corp…
Wood Group has secured a US$6 million contract with Woodside to support the execution of phase two of their Greater Western Flank (GWF-2) project, on the North West Shelf (NWS), offshore Western Australia. Effective immediately, Wood…
Coral FLNG SA has awarded the TechnipFMC-led joint venture TJS Consortium an engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and start-up (EPCIC) of the Coral South FLNG facility offshore Mozambique. TJS Consortium…
Wood Group has made changes to its executive leadership team. Andrew Stewart has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the asset life cycle solutions (ALCS) business in the Western region and Michele McNichol has been appointed to the new role of executive president – integration…
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…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has won the first offshore drilling project for Korean shipbuilders in 18 months, with an order for BP's Mad Dog II project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The US$1.27 billion order is for a floating production unit (FPU) weighing 58…
Wood Group and Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for joint efforts to offer wellhead platform development, from design to installation, hook-up and commissioning, to clients on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…