"Aker Solutions" News

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…

DNV GL’s new subsea RP

Apr 15, 2015

Steel forgings are important building blocks for subsea components and are often tailored to meet end-users’ specific requirements. This results in long delivery times and repeated follow-ups throughout the supply chain. With DNV GL’s new…

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…

Aker Solutions delivered MWCC SCA

Feb 19, 2015

Aker Solutions has delivered the key subsea component for the system being developed by Marine Well Containment Company to limit environmental risks from oil and gas production in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Subsea Containment Assembly…

Leap of faith

Mar 01, 2015

Will subsea tech join fracking slowdown? There may be too much momentum. Bruce Nichols reports. Testing for Train 2 of the Asgard subsea compression system was completed in December at Aker Solutions’ dockside yard in Egersund…

Danos launches project management group

Mar 12, 2015

Danos launched a project management group (PMG) to provide a single point-of-contact for customers with large-scale projects involving multiple services lines. The PMG will streamline critical project communication as well as ensure complete…

Aker lands latest Johan Sverdrup contract

Jan 21, 2015

Statoil has continued a contract award spree on its giant Norwegian North Sea Johan Sverdrup project, awarding Aker Solutions a US$590 million detailed engineering contract.  Johan Sverdrup, which sits in on the Utsira High, 140km west of Stavanger…

Aker Geo becomes First Geo

Jan 26, 2015

Following the split of Aker Solutions, sub-surface consultancy Aker Geo will now operate under the First Geo brand.  In 2015, Aker Solutions ASA split into two separate companies: Aker Solutions ASA and new oil services investment company Akastor ASA…

MPD enhances pre-salt drilling

Feb 10, 2015

With the discovery of deepwater pre-salt reservoirs offshore Brazil, national operator Petrobras began complex drilling operations to uncork the massive hydrocarbon reserves under these salt layers, which acted as seals, preventing the oil and gas from escaping…

First Geo gets Inpex Norge contract

Feb 02, 2015

Inpex Norge awarded First Geo a contract to provide exploration services on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). A geomodel. From First Geo.   Under the contract, First Geo will provide…

JDR picks up former Aker exec

Jan 05, 2015

JDR Cables has appointed former Aker Solutions UK regional president David Currie as its CEO and a member of the Board of Directors, effective 12 January 2015.  Currie has nearly 30 years’ experience in the global offshore energy industry…

Aker on Mariner hook-up

Dec 15, 2014

Aker Solutions is to provide engineering, construction and commissioning services for the hook-up phase of the Mariner oilfield development in the UK North Sea under a contract Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering worth more than GBP120 million…

2015 OAA finalists announced

Jan 12, 2015

The waiting is over - the shortlist for the 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards has been announced today (12 January 2015). Supported by OE, the annual awards are organized and hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen…

GE/McDermott launch new consultancy

Jan 15, 2015

A new oilfield consultancy has been launched by GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International to “transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fields.” Io oil & gas consulting, deliberately spelled without capital letters by the firms…

The future of subsea technology

Dec 01, 2014

Aker Solutions, FMC Technologies, and GE Oil & Gas set out where they see the future of subsea technologies going.  Aker Solutions A vision for the future: advanced subsea production systems. Photo from Aker Solutions…

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