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13 October 2016
Fugro Kicks Off Bay State Wind Site Survey
Fugro’s multi purpose drilling, well intervention and geotechnical vessel, Fugro Synergy, has started a geotechnical survey campaign on behalf of DONG Energy at the proposed site for the Bay State Wind offshore wind farm.A 15-days survey will involve seabed testings in 18 specific locations which should provide information for engineering…
13 October 2016
Swan Hunter issue Letter of Intent to Motive Offshore Group for Basket Carousel Loading Tower
Swan Hunter are proud to announce that we have issued Motive Offshore Group a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the Design & Build of a basket carousel loading tower.The agreement with Motive Offshore Group, who are based in Banff, Aberdeenshire, continues Swan Hunter’s capital investment into our flagship modular basket…
12 October 2016
Aker Solutions, MAN to Cut Cost of Subsea Compression Systems
Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo expect to cut the size and weight of subsea compression systems by at least 50% just a year after the first such system successfully went on stream at Statoil’s Åsgard field.The Åsgard system, which has been running with practically no stops or interruptions,…
12 October 2016
Searcher Begins Papua New Guinea Seismic Shoot
Searcher has started acquisition of the 11,000 km Hahonua 2D seismic survey in Papua New Guinea.This new acquisition, in partnership with BGP, increases Searcher’s total seismic data library in the region to over 70,000 km, the company noted.In addition, Searcher and Gardline have initiated a multi-beam and coring survey, the…
12 October 2016
Optime in Merger for Well Tech Push
Subsea technology outfit Optime Subsea Services has agreed to merge with fellow Norwegian engineering player Telemark Technologies as the pair join forces to promote a new cost-efficient well intervention and completion solution.The innovative rig-less technology, dubbed multiCompletionSystem (mCS), comprises modular building blocks and is intended to handle all phases of…
12 October 2016
Falcon Oil & Gas Announces Amungee NW-1H Discovery in the Beetaloo Basin
Falcon Oil & Gas has announced that Origin Energy Resources, its Joint Venture partner, has submitted a notification of discovery and an initial report on discovery to the Department of Primary Industry and Resources of the Northern Territory, Australia ('DPIR') on the Amungee NW-1H well in the Beetaloo Basin, Australia.…
12 October 2016
Hurricane in Subsea Pact with Technip, FMC for North Sea Project
Hurricane Energy said it has picked Technip and FMC Technologies as its provider of subsea solutions for it North Sea Lancaster project.The firm said under the alliance the companies will work together on the Lancaster Early Production System.An approach has been created to enhance the economics of the proposed development…
12 October 2016
Technip Awarded Important Contract for Dvalin Subsea Development
Technip has been awarded an EPCI contract for the subsea development of the Dvalin (previously named Zidane) field by DEA Norge AS. The Dvalin field development is a tie-back from a new 4-slot template to the Heidrun platform through a 15km long Pipe-in-Pipe production line. The development also connects the…
10 October 2016
Evolution is Speeding up at Darwin LNG
ConocoPhillips and Inpex are putting their foot on the pedal in the Timor Sea off northern Australia, where they are developing offshore gas resources as feedstock for their liquefied natural gas facilities in Darwin, while also looking at exploration opportunities and third-party gas supplies.ConocoPhillips is well into the early engineering…
10 October 2016
Anadarko Makes Concept Call on Shenandoah
Anadarko Petroleum has confirmed its plans to develop the significant Shenandoah discovery in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico.The US independent plans to develop the find using a semi-submersible platform designed by floater specialist SBM Offshore.Anadarko confirmed its decision to go with a semisub, but stressed that more work must be…
10 October 2016
Nigeria Job for Sea Trucks
Sea Trucks has secured a contract to provide an accommodation vessel on a deep-water field off Nigeria for an unnamed international oil company.The contractor’s principle Nigerian business West African Ventures, which won the award, will deploy its accommodation unit Jascon 30 for the work that is due to start later…
10 October 2016
Italian Player Makes a Splash With Pars Win
An Italian fabricator has been awarded a landmark contract to fast-track the construction of a 2000-tonne jacket for Phase 13 of the South Pars gas project off Iran.The job for Rosetti Marino represents the first such construction contract since before the tightening of international energy sanctions about a decade ago.An…
10 October 2016
Statoil Gets Nod to Drill Johan Sverdrup Survey Wells
Statoil has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to drill four survey wells at Johan Sverdrup field, located on the Utsira Height in the North Sea.The Johan Sverdrup field, operated by Statoil, has been developed using four fixed facilities connected by bridges, in addition to three subsea water…
10 October 2016
DeepOcean Gears Up for Race Bank Job
DeepOcean has completed the mobilization of the T3200 subsea trenching system onto the trenching support vessel Havila Phoenix.During last week the 150te system was mobilized onto the vessel prior to its deployment on the Race Bank offshore wind farm off Blakeney Point on the North Norfolk coast, the company informed…
6 October 2016
Bilfinger Wins Norway Deals
Platform maintenance contractor Bilfinger has secured lucrative deals with a pair of long-standing clients worth a total of €270 million ($302 million) for work off Norway.Bilfinger has gained a €110 million two-year extension of an existing contract with the state-owned operator to provide insulation, scaffolding and corrosion protection on production…
6 October 2016
WorleyParsons Gains Maria Gig
Rosenberg WorleyParsons has secured work to build subsea structures and flowlines for Wintershall’s Maria field project off Norway under a sub-contract with Subsea 7.The deal will provide employment for around 25 personnel at the Norwegian yard, which is part of Australia’s WorleyParsons group, according to a release. No value was…
6 October 2016
Positioning Systems Support Subsea Programs Offshore Nigeria
Nigerian contractor Geodetic Offshore Services has purchased two Applied Acoustics Nexus USBL positioning systems for various offshore projects, including underwater installation, diver monitoring, seabed surveys, and ROV operations.Emanuel Ekpeyong, managing director at Geodetic, said: “The Nexus system has been mobilized as a stand-alone underwater positioning reference, back-up reference to vessel…
6 October 2016
Fugro, CGG Land $60m Adnoc Job
Fugro and CGG joint venture company, Seabed Geosolutions, has landed a contract with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) for work on the Ghasha field in the Persian Gulf.Under the deal, Seabed Geosolutions will handle a shallow-water seabed survey over the second phase of the Ghasha project.The $60 million contract…
6 October 2016
Brazil Splash for Karoon and Woodside
Australia's Karoon Gas has paired up with compatriot Woodside with what looks like a winning bid for the acquisition of the Tartaruga and Bauna oil assets in Brazil from Petrobras.Woodside is providing the financial muscle that has helped Karoon to edge out Portuguese rival Petroatlantic, according to sources with knowledge…
6 October 2016
Wintershall to Exit Yme
German player Wintershall has signed an agreement to sell its stake in the Yme field in the North Sea to Norwegian start-up Okea.Under the deal, with an undisclosed value, Okea will acquire Wintershall’s 10% interest in the field.Once completed, the deal will be effective retroactively from 1 January, Wintershall said.Completion…
6 October 2016
BHP Announces Caicos Discovery in Green Canyon 564, Gulf of Mexico
BHP Billiton today also announced positive drilling results at the Caicos exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Located in Green Canyon 564, this well is approximately 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast in the deep water Gulf of Mexico. Caicos was drilled to a total depth of 30,803…
6 October 2016
Greater Stella Area Development Progress Report
Good progress has been made on the final stages of the Stella development programme since the FPF-1 floating production facility set sail from Poland in August 2016. The FPF-1 was safely towed to the field, moored on location and the dynamic risers and umbilical connecting the subsea infrastructure to the…
6 October 2016
Subsea Services Alliance Announces Plans for Riserless Abandonment System
The Subsea Services Alliance, a contractual collaboration between Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) and Schlumberger, today announced the launch of the development of the first Riserless Open-water Abandonment Module (ROAM).The 18¾-in. large bore system will enhance well abandonment capacity from a well intervention vessel by allowing tubing to…
5 October 2016
Transocean Ltd. Announces 15-month Contract for Transocean Barents
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) announced today that the Transocean Barents, a harsh-environment, ultra-deepwater floater, has been awarded a 15-month contract with Suncor Energy at a dayrate of $260,000. The estimated contract backlog, excluding mobilization, is $119 million. The rig is expected to commence operations offshore Canada in the third quarter…
5 October 2016
Kongsberg Chosen as Primary Acoustic Scientific Research and Mapping Technology Partner for RSS Sir David Attenborough
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by Cammell Laird as the primary supplier of the acoustic scientific research and mapping equipment for the British Antarctic Survey's new Polar Research Vessel, the RRS Sir David Attenborough. The new polar research ship, owned by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is currently…
5 October 2016
Cape Extends and Expands its Perenco UK Contract
Cape plc (CIU.LN), an international leader in the provision of critical industrial services to the energy and natural resources sectors, is pleased to announce an extension and expansion of its current contract with Perenco in the UK. Under this framework agreement, Cape will provide multi-discipline industrial and support services across…
5 October 2016
BP and Area 4 Partners Sign LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement for Offshore Mozambique
BP and the Area 4 concession partners, Eni East Africa (EEA), Galp Energia (Galp), Kogas and Empresa Nactional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), today entered into a sales and purchase agreement for BP to purchase 100% of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced by the EEA-operated Coral South Floating LNG facility expected…
5 October 2016
Ivory Coast Signs Agreement to Establish Total-led LNG Consortium
Ivory Coast signed a partnership pact on Tuesday to create a consortium headed by France's Total to build a liquid natural gas (LNG) import terminal that could begin receiving gas shipments by mid-2018.Ivory Coast has emerged from years of political turmoil to become one of Africa's fastest growing economies and…
5 October 2016
CGG Acquires Saturno Multi-Client Survey Over Santos Basin Offshore
CGG announced today the start of a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deepwater Santos Basin. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s most ambitious pre-salt project to date, collectively known as the Santos Basin Trilogy. The project is designed to make ultramodern…
5 October 2016
Searcher Completes New Multi-client 2D Seismic Survey, Offshore Mexico
Searcher Seismic is pleased to announce acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey, located offshore Mexico, is now complete.The Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey was acquired by Searcher’s project partner, BGP and comprises 11,200 km of high quality, long-offset, newly acquired 2D data specifically targeting the near shore areas…
5 October 2016
Maersk Exits Dvalin Development
Maersk Oil has decided to withdraw from the Dvalin field development in the Norwegian Sea.According to reports, the company is giving away its 20% stake in the field to Petoro and DEA.Following the Maersk withdrawal, DEA, who is the operator of the field, will hold 50% interest in Dvalin, Petoro…
4 October 2016
Petrobras, Statoil Extend Partnership for Old Wells
Petrobras and Norway's Statoil are expanding an existing partnership to help the Brazilian state-controlled company arrest declining production at aging wells in the offshore Campos basin, according to sources.In late August, Petrobras and Statoil signed a memorandum of understanding that has since evolved to targeting aging wells. Both companies are…
4 October 2016
Aibel Wins Dvalin Modules
Norwegian contractor Aibel has been awarded a coveted contract to build a pair of new modules for Statoil’s Heidrun platform to receive exports from the Dvalin gas field off Norway.The award comes hot on the heels of a pair of subsea deals handed to compatriot Aker Solutions, among an estimated…
4 October 2016
Seatools Nets Seaway Heavy Lifting Contract for Beatrice OWF
Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch subsea technology company Seatools the contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system.The system will be used for the offshore pile installation operations that are part of the construction of the Beatrice offshore wind farm, the company informed.The…
4 October 2016
Aker Solutions Clinches Dvalin Subsea Deal
Aker Solutions secured two contracts worth at least NOK 900 million (USD 112.5 million) from DEA Norge to deliver the subsea production system, maintenance and services at the Dvalin natural gas development offshore Norway.The first order is for a production system encompassing a manifold, four subsea trees and a 15-kilometer…
4 October 2016
Kongsberg Integrated Delivery for the New Angolan Research Vessel
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding of Vlissingen, the Netherlands to provide a diverse, integrated technology solution for a new 74 metre Fishery Research Vessel (FRV), which will be built at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania. The vessel is planned to be delivered to the…
3 October 2016
EDS Group Secures Cable Termination and Testing Work at Rampion
High voltage engineering specialist, EDS Group, has been chosen to complete cable termination and jointing work at Rampion Offshore Wind Farm.The site which is based off the sussex coast in the UK will feature 116 turbines, each 3.45MW in capacity, giving the project a total generating capacity of 400MW.Commencing in…
3 October 2016
FEED Contest Heats up for Johan Sverdrup platform
Aker Solutions, Aibel and others set to face off in race to provide Statoil with second processing facility for giant field off NorwayNorwegian contractors Aker Solutions and Aibel are expected to face off early next year in a tender to carry out front-end engineering and design work on the second…
3 October 2016
India’s ONGC To Invest $5.1B To Develop Deepwater Oil & Gas
India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will invest US$5.1 billion (340.12 billion rupees) over the next four years in the development of a deepwater oil and gas block off India’s east coast, the company tweeted on Friday.ONGC will be developing the Cluster 2 oil and gas fields in…
3 October 2016
Amec FW Lands Ichthys Work
UK services player to offer competency assessments to teams on giant Inpex LNG project in AustraliaAmec Foster Wheeler has scooped a project consultancy contract from Inpex for the giant Ichthys liquefied natural gas project off Australia.The UK services player will provide a team of production and maintenance assessors to carry…
3 October 2016
Dea to File Dvalin Plan
Dea is set to submit to the authorities on Monday its delayed plan for development and operation of the Dvalin gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea, setting the stage for subsequent awards on the subsea tieback project.The scheduled filing will mark only the third PDO to be handed over to…
3 October 2016
Aker BP Strikes Deal with Tullow
Oslo-listed Aker BP has agreed to acquire Tullow Oil’s interest in a number of permits in Norway.Aker BP revealed Monday it was set to acquire Tullow’s stakes in eight licences, subject to regulatory approval, including a 15% share in the Centrica Energy-operated PL 405 which contains the Oda discovery.Oda, which…
3 October 2016
SapuraKencana Bags Five Contracts Totalling Over $65m
SapuraKencana Petroleum Bhd's (SK Petro) unit SapuraKencana TL Offshore Sdn Bhd has bagged five oil and gas-related contracts totalling US$65.30mil or RM264mil.It said on Thursday the first job was to provide transportation and installation of offshore facilities for the BOC-BOD pipeline replacement tie-in project by Repsol Oil and Gas Malaysia…
29 September 2016
ROVOP Expands Fleet and Innovates to Help Operators Reduce Costs by 40%
Independent subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) service provider ROVOP has expanded its fleet of ROVs for the US region. The company has taken delivery of a new vehicle which will be the first of its kind for the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and, in a direct response to market conditions,…
29 September 2016
Maersk Begins Production Well Drilling at Culzean Field
Drilling operations have got under way on the first production well for a major gas field in the UK North Sea.Maersk Oil is planning to drill a total of six production wells at the high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) Culzean field.The first gas is expected to be produced from Culzean in…
29 September 2016
Kashagan ‘Close to Restart’
Kazakhstan’s monster Kashagan oilfield is days away from a resumption of production, the country’s Energy Ministry said after pulling an earlier statement claiming output had already restarted, according to reports.The Energy Ministry said on Thursday that output would begin in late September or earlier October, Reuters reported.However, the news wire…
29 September 2016
Ecosse Subsea Bags Carousel Order
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has been awarded a £3 million contract by an international infrastructure group to design and build a 1500-ton carousel and associated spread.The carousel will be used for the storage of spare cables required for UK offshore wind farm projects.The carousel will have the capability to be…
29 September 2016
Siem Offshore Contractors Selects JDR for Beatrice Inner Array Cables
Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) has selected UK based JDR to design, manufacture and supply around 163km of 33kV inner array grid cables for the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.JDR will be manufacturing the submarine composite cables at its Hartlepool facility. These will be directly loaded out into the turntables…
29 September 2016
Fugro Selects Sonardyne Scoustics for Flagship Brazilian Vessel
Brazil’s most advanced ROV support vessel (RSV), the Fugro Aquarius, has specified acoustic positioning technology supplied by Sonardyne Brasil Ltda., to support its subsea inspection, repair and maintenance activities in the region.Already delivered and fully commissioned, the Ranger 2 Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) system is being used to track the precise…
29 September 2016
Subsea 7 Completes Aasta Hansteen Work
Subsea 7 has completed the installation of risers and flowlines at Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field in the North Sea.Statoil said pipelines, risers and spooles have been installed and hooked up to subsea templates and umbilicals which were installed last year.The pipelines have been pressure-tested and prepared for production and mooring…