Aker Solutions has been awarded a four-year frame agreement from Statoil for delivering wireline tractor services on the Norwegian continental shelf. The frame agreement is valid for four years from 2013 to 2017, with two additional two-year options (2+2). Aker Solutions will deliver well interventi
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Aalborg boilers to an offshore oil production vessel in Vietnam. The order value is approximately SEK 50 million and delivery is scheduled for 2013. The Alfa Laval Aalborg
According to akbizmag.com, the 50-foot dredging vessel, designed by Bremerton-based Art Anderson Associates, was recently delivered to Pacifica, a customer for gold dredging operations near Nome, Alaska. “This was a fun project in that we were able to learn quite a bit about the gold dredging busine
Air Products announced it will build and operate a new air separation unit for Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (NAM), a joint venture between Shell and Esso. The company has secured the necessary environmental and permit approvals and construction will start at the site shortly. The installat
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces a four year contract to supply wellhead and mudline equipment to Brunei Shell Petroleum Sdn Bhd (‘BSP’). Under the terms of the
A new backhoe dredger manufactured by IHC Merwede was named ALBERTO ALEMÁN ZUBIETA during a special ceremony at the shipyard of its cooperation partner, NMC, in Nieuw- Lekkerland, The Netherlands, on 28 September. IHC Merwede has built the vessel for Autoridad del Canal de Panama (ACP). The ceremony
Aker Solutions has been awarded a four-year frame agreement from Statoil for delivering wireline tractor services on the Norwegian continental shelf. The frame agreement is valid for four (4) years from 2013 to 2017, with two additional two-year options (2+2). Aker Solutions will deliver well interv
Recently Hydrex teams of diver/technicians mobilized to a 164-meter roro vessel berthed in Antwerp, Belgium and a 235-meter bulker at anchor in Punta Del Este, Uruguay to perform underwater hull repairs. Despite the smaller scale of these operations they are nonetheless vital for shipowners if they
Brazil is one of the world’s largest oil producers, and its national oil company Petrobras has plans for $224 billion in capital expenditures from 2011 to 2015. To support Petrobras’ initiatives for pre-salt drilling, GE’s Power Conversion business announced that it has been selected by Keppel Offsh
Global oilfield services provider Archer has secured a three year contract to provide platform drilling and maintenance services to six Apache platforms in the North Sea. As the incumbent contractor on the Forties Alpha, Forties Bravo, Forties Charlie and Forties Delta, this contract is an extension
Aker Solutions has been selected to supply two production control umbilicals and three umbilical termination assemblies (UTAs) to Murphy Exploration & Production Company – USA. The products will be delivered to the Murphy operated Dalmatian field in the De Soto Canyon located in the Gulf of Mexico w
IOS InterMoor AS, an Acteon company, has signed a framework agreement with ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Norway AS to provide engineering services and equipment offshore Norway. The contract will run for five years with the option of three one-year extensions. The contract work scope includes
Tocardo International, the leading producer of free-flow turbines, has commenced the manufacture of six free-flow water turbines for installation in Nepal and Japan. This follows the partnership agreements announced in March to supply 8MW of bi-directional turbine power over a three-year period to J
The construction started this week on a new building for Cargotec Netherlands at Pier 4, Port of Rotterdam. The business is currently still located on the Maashaven. The new office building will house around 150 workers and has a surface area of 3,500 square metres. It is due to be completed by the
