Elaine Maslin looks at some of the ongoing and proposed FLNG projects around the globe (First published in the December 2017 OE, access the full issue here). West Africa has seen a good amount of floating LNG project activity this year with three developments underway…
The performance of the world’s first floating LNG projects, which are moving from execute to operate, will form the shape of the industry to come. Elaine Maslin reports (First published in the December 2017 OE, access the full issue here)…
Keppel Offshore & Marine, through its subsidiaries, has inked new contracts froom Petrobras and SOFEC, worth in total about US$96.22 (S$130 million). Keppel Shipyard's contract from SOFEC is for the fabrication of a turret mooring…
TechnipFMC and Petronas have signed a tripartite heads of agreement (THoA) to 'leverage' their respective resources in areas including enhanced oil recovery and unmanned equipment. The collaboration, involving Petronas Research and Petronas Technology Ventures…
Aker Solutions has boosted its expertise in LNG by hiring four specialists who have worked on more than 30 LNG projects globally. Aker Solutions has been working in LNG and gas processing, technology and projects, since the 1970s…
Wison Offshore & Marine has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with LNG transport and containment system firm GTT work together on various LNG projects, including LNG floating storage regasification units and floating LNG. Wison says…
Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Ophir Energy and national oil firm GEPetrol have signed a new production sharing contract (PSC) for Block EG-24 offshore Rio Muni. Block EG-24 (formerly Block EG-20 and Block M)…
Norwegian energy consultancy Add Energy and Australian firm Transborders Energy (TBE) are working together, with help from MODEC and TechnipFMC, to create a fast deployment business model for floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) concept to access small-scale stranded resources…
Ophir Energy has awarded an upstream construction for its Fortuna floating LNG project - west Africa's first deepwater FLNG project - to Schlumberger company OneSubsea and Subsea 7's Subsea Integration Alliance. The contract is an engineering…
Ophir Energy is holding out hope that the Fortuna FLNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea will reach final investment decision (FID) by the end of the year, however, the company still has a few hurdles to pass. Fortuna FLNG…
Shell has secured its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility to the seabed offshore Western Australia, after completing the installation of eight of the 16 mooring lines. Illustration of Prelude's turret mooring system…
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), has announced a second major contract for Eni East Africa’s (EEA) Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The contract was awarded by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation…
Subsea inspection, maintenance and repair provider, N-Sea, has begun work in the Cameroonian offshore market, via a contract win with Dutch offshore lifting and transportation company, Jumbo Offshore. With phase one completed in mid-July…
KBR has confirmed that the company has been awarded the pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and project support services contracts for the development of the Tortue / Ahmeyim field, offshore Mauritania and Senegal. OE reported in…
In advance of OE’s 2017 Global FPSO Forum, held in Houston this month, Audrey Leon chats with the forum’s board members to learn what is in store for the FPSO sector and discover how digitalization may play a role. Aerial…