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Addax Petroleum wins FPSO extension

Jul 22, 2013

BW Offshore has agreed an extension for FPSO Sendje Berge with Addax Petroleum Exploration Ltd. until the end of Q1 2014. The extension has been agreed to secure operational continuity while joint work to detail longer term program for investment and production is completed.

Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. to acquire interest in Cidade de Itajai FPSO

Jul 18, 2013

Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. has agreed to acquire a 50% interest in the Cidade de Itajai FPSO from Teekay Corporation (Teekay) for about US $204 million. The Cidade de Itajai FPSO is operating on the Baúna and Piracaba fields in the Santos basin off Brazil under a nine-year…

Quad 204 takes shape subsea

Jul 16, 2013

BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment will be one of the largest subsea developments in the UKCS. Quad 204 is one of the world’s biggest subsea redevelopment projects, and one of the most complex engineering challenges BP and its project partners have ever undertaken…

QGOG signs FPSO contracts

Jul 15, 2013

QGOG Constellation S.A. announced that Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A. (QGOG), together with its partners, signed contracts valued at US $3.5 billion for the 20-year charter and operation of two FPSOs, Cidade de Maricá and Cidade de Saquarema…

GL Group releases new data network guidelines

Jul 15, 2013

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has published new guidelines for data networks which are implemented onboard ships or offshore platforms. As the maritime industry makes greater use of automated systems data networks have become more and more complex…

Statoil to build FPSO vessel

Jul 10, 2013

Gina Krog gets FPSO Statoil will build a floating production storage and offloading vessel for use on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The FPSO will be converted from the shuttle tanker, Randgrid, currently 67% owned by Teekay Offshore…

Maersk Oil’s vessel undergone a major dry dock overhaul

Jul 10, 2013

Gryphon Alpha FPSO Maersk Oil’s vessel, stationed about 280km northeast of Aberdeen in the North Sea, has undergone a major dry dock overhaul, while infield subsea infrastructure was removed and replaced. A 4D seismic survey and near-field drilling was also done over the area…

FPSO Cidade de Paraty beginning production from the Lula Nordeste field

Jul 10, 2013

Cidade de Paraty in production FPSO Cidade de Paraty went on stream, beginning production from the Lula Nordeste field in the Santos Basin presalt play. It is about 300km off Brazil, in the northeast corner of Block BM-S-11. The FPSO can process up to 120…

Five FPSO orders for IHC Merwede

Jul 10, 2013

IHC Merwede has announced that it has signed two new contracts for the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) delivery of offloading system packages for five FPSO vessels (floating production storage and offloading). The first…

Honeywell chosen for gas processing off Brazil

Jul 03, 2013

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, was contracted by PNBV, a subsidiary of Petrobras, to supply UOP Separex™ membrane systems to process natural gas aboard four FPSOs. The vessels will process natural gas extracted from Petrobras’ Lula pre-salt oil reserves…

Appomattox potential grows

Jul 03, 2013

Shell said today it has made a 100million barrel deepwater oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, adding to the potential of the future development of its Appomattox find.   The Vicksburg A discovery is nearby Appomattox, which contains…

PTTEP's Montara in production

Jun 25, 2013

PTTEP Australasia (PTTEP AA) achieved first oil from the Montara field in the Timor Sea off Western Australia, the company announced on June 20. The Montara Venture FPSO started production at the H2 well at the beginning of June, achieving steady rates by June 12…

Steel cut for Ichthys FPSO

Jun 21, 2013

The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project cut first steel on June 18 for the hull of its floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility in Okpo, Korea. With fabrication of the hull underway, work on all of the project’s major offshore facilities has commenced…

Total launches EGINA development

Jun 21, 2013

Total announced that its subsidiary, Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd. (TUPNI), operator of the OML 130 block, and co-venturers have obtained the necessary approvals from Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) to award the main EPC contracts to develop the offshore Egina field…

GE wins FPSO power supply

Jun 19, 2013

GE will supply Mitsui Ocean Development Engineering Co. Ltd. (MODEC) with four LM2500+G4 aeroderivative gas turbine packages for a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) platform. The FPSO, owned and operated by MODEC, will be installed in 2…

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