Subsea Tieback News

 

Costs being cut but tiebacks prevail

Nov 03, 2016

Decisions over large field developments in the North Sea continue to be deferred, but some fields are coming through, in the form of subsea tiebacks, and costs have been cut.  According to Wood Mackenzie, 2016 to date has seen five final investment decisions made across the North Sea…

Rosenberg inks Maria fabrication deal

Oct 07, 2016

Rosenberg WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract with Subsea 7 for the fabrication of subsea structures and pipes for Wintershall’s flagship development in Norway. This is the second in a series of deliveries for Rosenberg to Subsea 7 and Maria project…

Noble to take Thunder Hawk operatorship

Aug 10, 2016

Noble Energy has been named the successor operator of the Thunder Hawk production facility, according to the company’s Q2 2016 report. Scant on details, Noble did confirm that the deal is expected to become effective within Q3 2016, subject to regulatory approval…

Charting Subsea Processing

Aug 01, 2016

Quest Offshore provides a look at subsea processing systems by type. Subsea Processing Project List (Onstream 2010+) Subsea Processing Application Region Operator Project Boosting Africa/Mediterranean…

Maria subsea templates installed

Jun 09, 2016

Wintershall’s flagship development in Norway has reached a new milestone as the two giant subsea templates for the Maria field were installed offshore last week. The 285-tonne templates, each the size of a basketball court, sailed…

Brutus back online as Shell repairs Glider

May 16, 2016

Shell announced on 15 May that production from the Brutus field in the US Gulf of Mexico has resumed following a leak at the nearby Glider field on May 12, which shut-in all production to the associated tension leg platform.  While production…

Ready for prime time

May 01, 2016

Kory Kinney, of IHS, takes a look at some of the projects underway in the US Gulf of Mexico.   As we move through 2016, construction activity in the US Gulf of Mexico has begun dwindling…

McDermott completes Otis tieback in GoM

Apr 28, 2016

McDermott International has successfully completed the installation scope associated with the Otis development in the Gulf of Mexico on behalf of LLOG Exploration Offshore. Image of Delta House…

Santos completes Kipper sale

Mar 03, 2016

Australia's Santos has completed a deal to sell its 35% non-operated interest in the Kipper gas and condensate field, in the Gippsland Basin, offshore southern Australia, to Mitsui for AU$520 million. The Kipper field, operated by ExxonMobil…

McDermott, Anadarko ink subsea tieback gig

Jan 27, 2016

Anadarko Petroleum awarded McDermott International a subsea umbilical and flowline installation contract to support Anadarko’s Phase II development of the Caesar/Tonga field in the Gulf of Mexico. Lay…

Woodside approves Greater Western Flank off Australia

Dec 11, 2015

North West Shelf (NWS) operator Woodside Petroleum said project participants have approved the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) development off the northwest coast of Australia. GWF-2 will develop 1.6 Tcf of raw gas from the combined Keast…

Det norske ramps up on Alvheim

Aug 14, 2015

Det norske is ramping up activity and production on its Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.  The FPSO (pictured), which produces Alvheim field (comprising the Kneler…

CIS secures Cladhan subsea manifold

Jul 01, 2015

Conductor Installation Services (CIS) completed a subsea piling operation for Subsea 7 in the UK North Sea.   CIS used its remotely-operated subsea piling system, which makes it possible to drive piles as large as 42in in diameter, in water depths up to 300m…

Going with the (model) flow

Jun 01, 2015

Modeling flow assurance regimes is no easy task, not least for long distance tiebacks, where the need for accurate modeling is crucial. Alexander Belkin outlines a model he has worked on. During the past several decades, offshore oil…

AWE begins subsea tieback in New Zealand

Mar 09, 2015

AWE Ltd. began the Pateke-4H subsea tieback and installation project offshore New Zealand. Map from AWE.   Pateke-4H is located in the offshore Taranaki basin, in the PMP 38158 permit area…

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