Wood Group Kenny won a US$8.6 million contract from Inpex Maselato perform FEED work for the subsea production facilities at the Abadi LNG project off Indonesia. The contract involves the subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline systems,including subsea structures and equipment.
TGS announced it will charter the 12-streamer Polarcus Asima for a six-month period. TGS will utilize the ship during an acquisition of a 3D multi-client survey covering 7800km 2 of the Sunfish acre age in Harper Basin, off Liberia. TGS will…
Shell has awarded Subsea 7 a US $135 million contract for work on its Fram oil and gas development located 220km east of Aberdeen, Scotland. Subsea 7 will handle the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and installation of a4.5 km in-field pipeline bundle measuring 44in in diameter…
Tenaris renewed a long-term supply deal with Brazil’s Petrobras last month. Under the agreement, Tenaris will supply large diameter casing pipes with TenarisHydril Wedge Series 500 premium connections and other products until 2017.
Rune Eng, president and CEO, provides the answers to why Spectrum is emerging as a key player in the market for multiclient marine seismic surveys and where the company is heading with its business. Before joining Spectrum in 2010 Rune…
Dubai-based shipping, logistics, and marine services provider GAC began construction on its new North Houston office and warehouse. The 181,067 sq ft cross dock building, slated for completion in July, includes four acres of outside storage space…
EPC Offshore has just completed a reference case for a phased development approach for Hurricane Oil’s Lancaster field, in UK block 205/21a, West of Shetland, to demonstrate that it is commercially viable,and the project is about to enter the next stage of its development…
Basement reservoirs have been exploited for decades. However, since the mid-1990s, there has been increasing interest following major discoveries in Vietnam and Yemen, combined with the creation of new downhole tools, seismic technics and improved drilling technologies…
Dean Arnison, subsea controls business leader at GE Oil & Gas subsea systems group, revealed that GE as a group is working on virtual flow metering with a field specific package developed last year being installed by an operator ready for first gas in mid2013…
Last year, Turkey approved construction of the South Stream pipeline through its territory, which will bring Russian gas across the southern Black Sea and into Europe. Construction should be completed in 2015, with the offshore component costing US$13 billion…
PGS kick-started the broadband revolution in 2007 when they found an engineering solution to the long-cherished industry ambition of towing collocated pressure and particle velocity sensors in a streamer. Thus, the receiver ghost effects can be completely removed…
Keppel FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured contracts from Mexican drilling company, Grupo R, to build four jackup rigs worth US$820 million. Seadrill's West Ariel jackup rig is a KFELS B Class design (Image: Keppel Corp…
Andrew McBarnet points to the signs that indicate previous enthusiasm for gas hydrate research in the US may be running out of steam. The announcement last month of significant progress in a key gas hydrates research project offshore…
BP and its co-venturers Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron announced their decision to proceed with a two-year appraisal program to look at the possibility of developing a third phase of the giant Clair field, west of the Shetland Islands…
WPG Group initiated the acquisition of 2D and 3D surveys last month in Ecuador’s transition and shallow water zones for the State Sevmorgeo Company (SMG). SMG is utilizing Fairfield Z700 oceanbottom nodes in combination with portable sources provided by WPG.
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