Drydocks World said it has completed the Rashid D Wellhead Platform jacket and topside for TechinpFMC and end client Dubai Petroleum.“Rashid D marks the fourth project we have built [with TechinpFMC] together for Dubai Petroleum,” said Capt…
Canadian integrated energy company Suncor said it has restarted production from the Terra Nova floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), approximately 350 kilometers east-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada in the North Atlantic Ocean…
Norwegian services company Aibel said it has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract for Gudrun Phase 2 Water Injection in the North Sea. The contract with operator Equinor also includes an option for the actual implementation in the form of engineering…
German oil firm Wintershall's flagship project in Norway - the Maria oil and gas field - is not meeting output expectations due to water injection issues, the company said on Monday.The field, which started nine months ahead of schedule at end-2017…
Iraq's Basra Oil Co is preparing to tender for a water injection project vital to increase its oil production capacity if talks with Exxon Mobil fail, the head of the oil ministry's licensing and contracts office said. 'We cannot wait for…
Aker Solutions has won a contract to provide umbilicals for the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup, Utgard and Bauge developments offshore Norway. The order entails delivery of a total of more than 40km of subsea umbilicals. 'By combining…
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering has been awarded a contract from India's ONGC for Pipeline Replacement Project-4 worth about US$194 million. The project is part of ONGC’s strategy to replace some of its well fluid, gas lift and water…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Eni consent to use Scarabeo 8 at Goliat, which will drill two production wells, in the Barents Sea. One of the two wells to be drilled is for oil production, while the other is for water injection…
A project to use wind turbines to power water injection facilities on oil fields is to move into a second testing phase, says joint industry project leader DNV GL. The WIN WIN concept includes a floating wind turbine, which supplies…
DeepOcean received a call-off under its new master service agreement (MSA) with BP Exploration Operating Co. that covers the installation of a new flexible water injection riser, and the recovery of the existing water injection riser in the deepwater Foinaven field…
Ocean Installer has recently completed the first permanent subsea installation at the Johan Sverdrup field, marking the kick-off of the Johan Sverdrup offshore work - see video below. The offshore campaign took place late January, in line with project plans and schedule…
BW Offshore has signed an interim extension agreement for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Abo with Eni subsidiary Nigerian Agip Exploration, until 31 March this year. The short-term extension has been agreed…
Austrian operator OMV is restarting production from the Maari/Manaia wellhead platform, offshore New Zealand, in which a crack was found late last year. A temporary repair has been made and now OMV, with advisors AMOG and Worley Parsons…
BW Offshore has signed a short-term interim extension agreement for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Abo with Eni subsidiary Nigerian Agip Exploration. The unit, moored off Nigeria on the Abo field, will continue working for Eni until 20 January 2017…
Centrica has awarded a string of contracts to FMC Technologies, Subsea 7 and Aker BP / Maersk Drilling, for its Oda field development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Oda oil field (previously called Butch) was discovered in 2011…