The offshore lifting market for decommissioning has been relatively small so far, but it won’t stay that way. Elaine Maslin looks at some new concepts edging into the market. OOS’ Serooskerke. Image from OOS…
Japan’s Inpex awarded Amec Foster Wheeler of a consultancy contract for the Ichthys Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, the largest discovery of hydrocarbon liquids in Australia in the last 40 years. The scope of work involves Amec Foster…
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary, Keppel FELS, delivered the Floatel Triumph semisubmersible to Floatel International, which will work on Chevron's Wheatstone, and INPEX's Ichthys Field, off Western Australia. The Floatel Triumph is…
The Inpex-led Ichthys LNG Project has reached a key milestone with both its central processing facility (CPF) and floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility safely starting up their main power generators in the South Korean shipyards where they are being constructed…
The market for floating production systems may have stalled, but FPSs will still be a key part of the offshore technology tool kit, outlines Douglas-Westwood’s Ben Wilby. The FPSO Cidade de Saquarema…
Intertek has signed a three-year extension for the provision of quality assurance services into the operational phase of Inpex's Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, offshore Australia. Intertek will continue to provide local and global inspection…
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has signed a contract to provide position keeping services for the installation of the Ichthys LNG Project FPSO. Under the contract, Aqualis Offshore will manage the position…
Inspection and measurement technology specialist, Optical Metrology Services (OMS), has completed the measurement phase of pipeline fit-up work for the Ichthys LNG project, which is located 220km offshore Western Australia. The project…
Italy's Remacut has delivered a 150m-tonne vertical lay system (VLS) for McDermott at its quay side assembly shop in Genoa, Italy, using a single-lift load out. The delivery took place after successful factory acceptance test of all the equipment installed on the VLS…
UK-based engineering firm Atkins has been awarded a contract with Chevron Australia to provide engineering support services for the oil and gas major’s Western Australian-based assets. The agreement includes provision of a range of onshore…
Inpex completed the offshore pre-lay of the 77km chain and cable mooring system for its Ichthys LNG project in the Browse Basin, located off the northern coast of Western Australia. As part of the mooring system, 49 chains were laid on…
McDermott International's Australia arm has awarded Neptune a contract for the provision of 350 concrete mattresses, which will be utilized for flowlines walking mitigation on the INPEX-operated Ichthys liquefied natural gas project, offshore Australia…
Italy's Remacut is due to deliver its first system from its new assembly workshop in Genova. The delivery will be a portable 150-tonne vertical lay system for McDermott, to be used initially on the firm's V108 vessel for Inpex's Ichthys project off Australia…
Software that enables acoustic data to be streamed in real-time from subsea structures as they are installed has helped to reduce non-production time (NPT) for independent oil and gas producer, INPEX, and its survey contractor, Neptune Geomatics…
McDermott International has been awarded three separate projects by a major national oil company for the integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services in multiple fields in the Arabian Gulf. In addition to this…