"FPSO" News

James Fisher buys ROV firm

Jan 29, 2014

UK-based maritime services company James Fisher and Sons has acquired Subsea Vision for £2.5 million. Subsea Vision owns and operates remotely operated vehicles (ROV) providing underwater surveys, inspections, and construction support to the oil and gas industry…

Shell selling BC-10 stake

Jan 29, 2014

Shell has agreed to sell a 23% stake in the Parque das Conchas (BC-10) project, offshore Brazil, to Qatar Petroleum International, for about US$1 billion. Shell will continue to operate BC-10, with a 50% working interest, and retains a significant upstream presence in Brazil…

BG cuts guidance

Jan 27, 2014

BG Group has cut its 2014-15 production forecasts and issued a series of force majeure notices under its LNG agreements in Egypt.  The notices are due to the diversion of gas volumes to domestic markets in excess of existing pooling arrangements…

Bualuang repairs delayed

Jan 27, 2014

Bad weather has slowed work to replace riser sections damaged when an FPSO came off station.  The Rubicon Vantage FPSO drifted into an exclusion zone designed to protect the Bualuang oil field production infrastructure in the Gulf of Thailand in bad weather…

Shell picks Prelude power systems

Jan 17, 2014

Emerson Network Power has been selected as the main uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems provider for Shell’s Prelude floating LNG project. Prelude is the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project, currently under construction in Korea…

BW Offshore enters Polvo field

Jan 16, 2014

BW Offshore has signed a letter of intent to acquire 30% of the Polvo oil field, located in the Campos basin in Brazil. Following the ongoing sale of BP’s stake in the Polvo field to HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. (HRT), BW Offshore has the intention to acquire half of HRT’s stake…

PSVM production underway

Jan 16, 2014

Production commenced offshore Angola’s first deepwater development, utilizing BP Exploration’s (Angola) US$14 billion FPSO PSVM, the largest deepwater project in Africa. PSVM consists of four oilfields - Plutão, Saturno, Vénus and Marte…

Shell invests in Anasuria

Jan 15, 2014

Oil major Shell is planning to breath new life into its oldest North Sea floating production unit after acquiring new 4D seismic data last year.  According to a partner on one of the fields produced by the Anasuria floating production…

Cidade de Ilhabela marches on

Jan 14, 2014

Following its 10,625nm (19,678km) voyage from China, the FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela arrived at Brazil's Brasa yard on Jan. 12 ready for the next step in its journey: bare hull and topside integration. Conversion work was completed in China in October 2013…

CAMAC inks FPSO

Jan 09, 2014

CAMAC Energy Inc. has signed a letter of intent (LOI) on the terms and conditions of a long-term agreement for the use of the Armada Perdana floating, production, storage, and offloading system (FPSO) as part of its further development of the Oyo field offshore Nigeria…

Etame platforms due in 2H

Jan 09, 2014

VAALCO Energy Inc. has said construction work on two production platforms for the additional development of the Etame Marin block offshore Gabon is continuing on schedule. One platform is due to be installed in the Etame field, and the…

HRT plucks Polvo from BP

Jan 09, 2014

Brazilian independent HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA acquired a 60% working interest and the operatorship stake in the Polvo field from BP Energy do Brasil Ltda, following the Jan. 8 close on a deal worth US$101 million.In the transaction…

FPSO damages riser

Jan 08, 2014

A floating production (FPSO) vessel moored over the Bualuang oil field in the Gulf of Thailand damaged a production riser after drifting off station in bad weather. The Rubicon Vantage FPSO drifted into the exclusion zone designed to protect the production infrastructure…

Petrobras P-62 FPSO completed

Dec 23, 2013

The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, and Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster, attended the work completion ceremony for the P-62 platform on 17 Dec 2013, at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard, in Ipojuca (state of Pernambuco). Before the ceremony…

OGX begins Campos basin production

Dec 17, 2013

On 4 Dec 2013, OGX Petroleo e Gas SA , Brazil's second-largest oil company by market value, began production in the Tubarão Martelo field, located in the BM-C-39 and BM-C-40 blocks, through the horizontal well TBMT-8H. On 29 Nov 2013…

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