OMV New Zealand Ltd. awarded DOF Subsea Group a contract for subsea installation services to the Maari Field, Raroa FPSO offshore Taranaki, New Zealand. The project, worth approximately NOK 150 million, will be executed from DOF Subsea’s…
Subsea services and technology company Cortez Subsea has been awarded £1.5million of contracts across its pipeline installation and decommissioning services during Q3, 2013. The Aberdeen-based firm has completed the first phase of work on a North Sea floating production…
A joint venture between DOF Subsea and Technip has been awarded contracts to build and operate four new pipelay support vessels (PLSV) for Brazil's Petrobras. Two of the PLSVs will have a 300-ton laying tension capacity and will be fabricated in Brazil…
Höegh FLNG awarded pre-FEED Höegh FLNG Ltd. has been awarded a pre-FEED study for a jetty-moored 2MMTA FLNG near-shore barge for a North American LNG export project. The study will be executed in 2H 2013. Meta wins Shell tiebacks Meta Downhole Ltd…
Lifting, drilling and subsea solutions specialist Huisman has secured new contracts for10 pipelay systems, with various major offshore pipelay contractors. The new contracts include: three 550mt tiltable lay systems (TLS) and one 325mt vertical lay system (VLS) for Subsea 7…
DOF Subsea Norway has been awarded a contract by Teekay Petrojarl Production in Norway for work on a newbuild FPSO. The scope of work includes mooring pre-installation, tow-out and hook-up work for Teekay Petrojarl Production’s new FPSO…
Otto Energy Ltd. is drilling two horizontal wells in the second phase of development at Galoc field offshore the Philippines. The wells are being batch drilled in 311 m of water. Otto projects the Galoc-5H and Galoc-6H development wells will be drilled to a total vertical depth of 2…
Dutch offshore lifting, drilling and subsea equipment firm Huisman has developed a new series of large, offshore cranes capable of use in ultra-deepwater and with capacities of up to 900 metric tonnes (mt). The series includes a 300mt/600mt…
Ciaran O’Donnell has been appointed CEO of subsea project and integrity management specialist Flexlife. He was co-founder and CEO of CSL before its 2007 sale to DOF Subsea, remaining for three years afterwards mainly in the role of Atlantic region EVP.
David Hunt and Faris Lutfy head up an expanded engineering division at Aberdeen-based Ecosse Subsea Systems. Both are chartered engineers, Hunt hailing from Flexlife and Acergy and Lutfy from Subsea 7 and DOF Subsea UK.
Asia Pacific has become the latest happy hunting ground for Bergen-headquartered construction vessel operator DOF Subsea, which already employs 220 professionals at its project management and engineering centre in Perth, Western Australia. Well established in the North Sea and Brazil…
One portion of the Golden Triangle – the Gulf of Mexico – has slipped a notch in its dominance of the global deepwater play while activities in the other two corners – West Africa and Brazil – amped up. In addition, a new region has joined the report this year…
Offshore rig and vessel repair continues to produce attractive returns for yards that are well placed strategically and geographically. OE checks out the latest developments at two players – one in Bahrain, the other in Gibraltar – still relatively…
Letters of intent for the removal of two redundant North Sea platforms, H7 and 2/4-S, have been awarded by Statoil on behalf of operator Gassco. AF Decom Offshore will remove and sell H7, while Saipem UK will remove 2/4-S. Both installations are to be removed by the end of 2014…
Reservoir isolation rethinkThe newly patented PowerBall from Aberdeen-based Red Spider turns traditional reservoir isolation barrier technology on its head by moving the mechanical parts of the ball mechanism below the closed ball area of the tool…
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