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Petrobras starts fourth PLSV off Brazil

Feb 19, 2016

Sapura Navegacao Maritima’s (SNM) fourth pipelaying support vessel (PLSV), the Sapura Jade started work with Petrobras on 14 February. The Sapura Diamante. Image from SapuraKencana. The Sapura…

Royal IHC launches Seven Cruzeiro

Jan 15, 2016

Royal IHC has successfully named and launched the 550-tonne top tension capacity pipelay vessel, Seven Cruzeiro, at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel in south Holland. Seven Cruzeiro. Image courtesy IHC Merwede…

Bisso Marine acquires derrick/pipelay barge

Dec 23, 2015

Bisso Marine has announced its acquisition of the derrick/pipelay barge Global Iroquois. The 400ft x 100ft x 30ft laybarge has performed pipelay operations worldwide and will be renamed Bisso Iroquois. The central part of the barge’s…

Statoil picks three for Johan Sverdrup pipelines

Dec 09, 2015

Statoil has, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partners, awarded contracts for the linepipe, coating and pipe installation of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. The total contract value is estimated at slightly less than US$288 million (NOK 2…

Lewek Constellation completes inaugural reel lay projects

Sep 29, 2015

Ezra Holdings Ltd., announced its Subsea Services division EMAS AMC has successfully completed the first two of three Noble Energy-operated subsea tieback projects in the US Gulf of Mexico.   Image…

Polarled in place, well under budget

Sep 29, 2015

The last pipe in Statoil’s Polarled pipeline has been laid this week in the Norwegian Sea, with the project coming in at 32% under budget. The pipeline was laid by the world's largest pipelaying vessel: Solitaire from Allseas…

UTEC completes Cook Inlet installation

Sep 28, 2015

UTEC provided a positioning solution for the installation of a monopod liquid natural gas platform and 30km 10in LNG pipeline for a major operation located in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.  A total of 24 field personnel were mobilized and engaged…

Red Marine delivers load test system to Technip

Sep 15, 2015

Red Marine delivered a high capacity load test system, to Technip, for the periodic load testing of the pipelay system onboard the Skandi Africa, a newly built pipelay and construction vessel. The vessel has been specifically designed for…

Designs for the future

Sep 01, 2015

Jeannie Stell speaks with classification organizations ABS and DNV GL to discuss today’s trends in new pipelay vessels. Mike Sano Bigger is better, when the object of discussion is offshore pipelay vessels…

Pipelay market outlook

Sep 01, 2015

Audrey Leon spoke with Infield Systems’ analysts James Hall and Wei Liu to get the bigger picture. According to Infield Systems, the offshore pipeline installation market over the next 12 months will be challenging. Infield has revised…

Polarled crosses the Arctic Circle

Aug 21, 2015

On 21 August the Polarled gas pipeline crossed 66° and 33 minutes north of the equator becoming the first pipeline to take the Norwegian gas infrastructure across the Arctic Circle. This will open a new gas highway from the Norwegian Sea to Europe…

Subsea 7 on BP's West Nile Delta

Jul 30, 2015

Subsea 7 has won a contract worth about US$500 million from BP for the development of the Taurus and Libra subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt.  The contract is the first phase of Egypt's West Nile Delta project where field development will be at depths of approximately 800m…

Collaboration wins at Jack/St. Malo

Jul 20, 2015

Chevron information technology teams from around the world put their stamp on Jack/St. Malo, providing the technical support that helped the major capital project achieve first oil in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico (GOM), reports the company…

Saipem gets official South Stream axe

Jul 09, 2015

Gazprom handed Eni subsidiary Saipem a termination notice for the South Stream pipeline project to transport gas via a pipeline in the Black Sea. Image of South Stream pipelay. Images from Gazprom…

Petrofac to install Alfa Laval products

Jun 23, 2015

Oil and gas industry service provider Petrofac has selected a range of Alfa Laval environmental products for the new Petrofac JSD6000. Alfa Laval PureDry, PureBilge and PureBallast will all be installed aboard this derrick lay vessel. “One…

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