Image from Wood Group. Wood Group Mustang has promoted Kent McAllister to the position of president, Offshore Business Unit. He was previously executive vice president for the business unit…
Anadarko Petroleum announced that topsides have been lifted onto the Heidelberg spar in the Gulf of Mexico this week. Heidelberg. Image from Anadarko Facebook. Using Heerema Marine Contractor's largest crane vessel…
A midstream merger that will see Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) acquire The Williams Cos. (WMB) in a US$37.7 billion deal is linked to offshore operations in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Gulfstar spar…
InterMoor provided Anadarko Petroleum Corp. with rapid hook-up services for their Heidelberg truss spar in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico after stepping in at short notice for another contractor. The company hooked up the 80,000 b/d spar to three mooring lines in Green Canyon block 860…
When developing the Lucius and Heidelberg fields in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko Petroleum opted for a “design one, build two” strategy. Audrey Leon reports on how the Lucius field, which began production in January, came to be…
Anadarko recently completed the successful upending of its massive 23,000-ton Heidelberg floating spar in 5300ft water depth, in Grand Canyon block 859, about 140mi off the coast of Louisiana. The 80 MMscf/d capacity Heidelberg truss spar is the second of Anadarko’s “design one…
Anadarko's Heidelberg truss spar has set sail from Ingleside, Texas, to its future home at Green Canyon block 859 in the US Gulf of Mexico. The journey is some 390mi off the Texas coast. The US independent confirmed the news via Facebook on Tuesday…
Anadarko shows its largest spar facility, Lucius. In this video, Anadarko explains the process of Lucius and what it has taken to get the project to where it is today, including its 25-day journey to the Lucius oil field located in the Keathley Canyon Block…
InterMoor’s Dusan Curic discusses the decommissioning of Anadarko Petroleum’s Red Hawk spar in the US Gulf of Mexico, a job that involved several industry firsts. With holes cut into the hull, Red Hawk spar is being tipped underwater…
Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has opened its latest Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) – Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) licensing round. The area covered by the 2015 round, licenses from which are expected to be awarded in early 2016…
Statoil started the first stage of the Polarled installation project with the Solitaire pipelaying vessel connecting the pipeline in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamma. Solitaire. From Allseas. The…
BP finally has filed – and won approval for – its long-awaited revised Mad Dog 2 development plan, records at the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management show. The new plan calls for a 140,000 b/d semisubmersible floating production platform in 4440ft of water in Green Canyon block 780…
Norway's Statoil and its partners on production license 218 in the Norwegian Sea have made a gas discovery close to the Aasta Hansteen development. The Snefrid Nord discovery, estimated to contain 31-57 MMboe, will increase the Aasta…
In this video, Anadarko gives a closer look of its Red Hawk project. Red Hawk was the world's first cell spar and began production in 2004 in 5300 feet of water in Garden Banks Block 877, approximately 210 mi. south of Lafayette…
Hess shows the carefully staged choreography of 14 cranes as they hoisted the 1000-tonne Tubular Bells main deck 100ft in the air to set it into place atop the production and cellar decks at a Houma, Louisiana fabrication facility. The Tubular…