Norway-based floating LNG specialist Höegh LNG says it will not engage in further new floating LNG (FLNG) developments, but focus on floating storage, and regasification units (FRSUs). The firm plans to have a fleet of 12 FRSUs by 2019…
French cables firm Nexans has been selected to supply the cabling for Total's deep water Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries under a Euro 2.8 billion turnkey contract - its largest FPSO contract to date…
Forsys Subsea, the joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, has been awarded a contract from Statoil to provide a subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for subsea tie-back of Trestakk to Åsgard A floating production…
During the period of 5-7 January 2016, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway conducted an audit on ENI Norge's facility Goliat FPSO. The audit was conducted as a follow-up to an audit carried out in June 2015 linked to logistics on Goliat…
BW Offshore is a step closer to recovering the Cidade de São Mateus floating production vessel to shore for repairs more than a year after it was damaged in a fire. The fire, on 11 February 2015, offshore Brazil, saw nine of the 74 crew die and 26 require medical attention…
To collaborate on the localization of main equipment and materials for offshore plants, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (DHIC) and Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (CCEI) in Ulsan and Gyeongnam…
Panoro Energy announced that the final works on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, for the Aje field operations, have been completed. The vessel has left Singapore and is expected to arrive in Nigeria mid-March 2016…
Audrey Raj speaks to Japanese gas giant INPEX about its US$34 billion Ichthys LNG development and the key components that make up the offshore production facilities of the project. The monoethylene…
GE Oil & Gas and SBM Offshore have agreed to what they are calling the first ever global maintenance agreement for an entire fleet of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. Under the agreement, GE Oil & Gas will provide spare parts…
The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills set sail from Singapore on 23 January. The vessel is sailing to Ghana, where it will produce and store oil from Ghana’s Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) offshore oil fields…
A relentless focus is required to maintain and optimize production on often aging North Sea assets. Elaine Maslin reports. Wintershall’s Brage platform. Photos from Wintershall. Optimizing…
German operator Wintershall has delayed a decision on concept selection for its Skarfjell project offshore Norway in order to slash 40% of the costs from the project. Wintershall said this will see a decision made in Q3-Q4 this year, rather than Q1 as expected…
Statoil has picked Aker Solutions to provide a concept study for a floating production, storage and offloading facility for the Johan Castberg oil field development in the Barents Sea. The announcement comes just days after Statoil said it was now moving ahead with the delayed project…
Floating production specialist SBM Offshore has accepted an out of court settlement over allegations relating to the Petrobras corruption scandal - but says this doesn't amount to an admission of guilt. The allegations were made in December…
The BW Athena floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is to be demobilized from the Athena field in the UK North Sea next month. The move, which had been expected, will the see BW Athena leave the field Athena and Anglia fields…
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