Italian contractor Saipem has won a string of contracts worth a total US$370 million. Eni Angola has awarded Saipem additional work orders for the West Hub Development project offshore Angola. The work, which will be performed by Saipem's E&C Offshore division…
Seawater injection is one of the jigsaw pieces making up the subsea processing puzzle. Elaine Maslin reports on Saipem’s Springs technology. Springs, how it might look subsea. Image from Saipem…
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) has won a major subsea contract from Petrobel for phase two of the supergiant Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Egypt. BHGE will provide project management, engineering procurement, fabrication…
Oceaneering and Sonsub are making moves towards subsea resident remote operated vehicles. Elaine Maslin reports on their progress. The eNovus ROV illustrated. Image from Oceaneering. The…
Eni has inked the Saipem 12000 drillship for drilling the RD-1 well in the Rabat Deep Offshore license, offshore Morocco. Partner Chariot Oil & Gas says the RD-1 well will target the JP-1 prospect using the with drilling due to start in the latter part of Q1 2018…
Offshore heavy lift installation work is complete, and hook-up and commissioning work has started on Statoil’s Mariner heavy oil field. Elaine Maslin reports on progress, including work optimizing the field’s 100+ wells scope. Statoil’s 38…
Saipem and Petrobel have finalized offshore contract variations worth US$900 million for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) activities in relation to the “Optimised Ramp Up” phase of the “supergiant” Zohr field development project offshore Egypt…
Eni will begin drilling the Goliat Eye wildcat next month in the Barents Sea, after been given the go-ahead from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA). Scarabeo 8. Image from Saipem. Eni…
Caspian Sea focused Dragon Oil has awarded a US$100 million contract to offshore support vessel (OSV) firm Topaz Energy and Marine for use of six vessels. Dragon Oil is the upstream oil and gas subsidiary of Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC)…
Image of the Saipem 10000, from Saipem. Saipem has won contracts with Eni worth US$230 million for work on the newly sanctioned Coral project off Mozambique; in addition to other work in the Mediterranean…
Statoil’s North Sea Mariner platform is in place following a major heavy lifting campaign throughout July. Photo from Statoil/Jamie Baikie. The work saw nine modules - weighing 38…
Italian contractor Saipem has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco for engineering, procurement, construction, installation activities and trunklines and installation works in Saudi Arabia, under a long-term agreement running from 2015 until 2021…
The first of eight topside modules, which will make up Statoil's Mariner platform, have been installed offshore Shetland in the UK North Sea. The 10,000-tonne Mariner A utility module was lifted into place by the Saipem 7000 as planned…
In just two days’ time, work putting together one of the biggest and heaviest jigsaw puzzles you could imagine is due to start offshore Shetland in the UK North Sea. Mariner topsides. Images from OE Staff…
Norwegian operator Statoil has released footage of the mating of its Hywind floating wind turbine towers, complete with nacelle and blades, with the spar-hull structures that will support them. The operation, carried out in a fjord, Norway…
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