China’s Cosco Shipyard on Thursday held a launching ceremony for Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles FPSO. According to Cosco, which built the floating production storage and offloading unit, the ceremony was held on Thursday in Qidong, China. Cosco said the FPSO would „soon be towed“ to the North Sea, w
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has informed that the P-66 FPSO has left the Brasfels shipyard in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro and is on its way the Lula Sul module in the Lula field.
Singapore’s Keppel is working to deliver the John Agyekum Kufuor FPSO unit to Yinson. The naming ceremony for the Ghana-bound floating production storage and offloading unit was held on Friday morning, Singapore time. The FPSO was named by Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, after Ghana’s Presid
Greek oil company Energean Oil & Gas has appointed TechnipFMC as the contractor for Concept and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the Karish and Tanin development offshore Israel. This follows Energean’s recent decision to develop the offshore fields using a floating production, storage and of
GE Energy Connections has won a contract for the provision of the MV7Series 5 Level power unit, which will sit topside a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit on the Greater Enfield project offshore Australia. GE said on Thursday that the MV7-5L drive would be supplied by GE’s Power
Minox Technology, a process technology company, has delivered two water deaeration skids to the Egina FPSO. Minox said on Wednesday that the compact modules were delivered mid-January from the ROS fabrication yard in Singapore. Samsung Heavy Industries is transporting the skids to Nigeria where the
Norway’s BW Offshore has signed an interim extension agreement for the Abo FPSO with a subsidiary of Eni, Nigerian Agip Exploration, until March 31, 2017. BW said on Monday that the short-term extension was agreed to secure operational continuity while joint work is continuing to conclude the negoti
Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings has entered into exclusive negotiations with Talisman Vietnam for the supply of an FPSO vessel for the Ca Rong Do Field offshore Vietnam. The field is located in Block 07/03 in the Eastern Sea offshore Vietnam. Yinson said that the final contract award was subject to succe
UK’s offshore crane services specialist Sparrows Group has secured a contract for the provision of crane management services at the Kraken Field in the UK North Sea. Sparrows said that the three-year contract is for the provision of support during the pre-operations and operations phase aboard the f
FPSO unit Armada Kraken, meant for the Kraken field development in the UK North Sea, is currently undergoing inspection and certification in Rotterdam prior to its deployment to the field. The Kraken field is operated by EnQuest with 70.5% working interest with Cairn as its partner with 29.5% workin
Ophir Energy, a company working to bring on stream its gas reserves offshore Equatorial Guinea, has said the project remains on schedule. In an operational update on Thursday, Ophir said the Fortuna FLNG “remains firmly on schedule” for a Final Investment Decision in 1H 2017, and that Ophir and its
Deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, has won a spooling contract with Oceaneering on the world’s largest offshore facility ever built, the Prelude FLNG facility, operated by Shell. ACE said on Wednesday that this would be the first time that the newly developed 500 tonnes reel drive system is use
Norway’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has decided to carry out a full safety audit of Eni’s Goliat FPSO in the Barents Sea, following a number of incidents last year. According to a report by Dagens Næringsliv, a Norwegian news website, the agency will in January
FPSO operator BW Offshore has signed an agreement with its insurers for an early repair cost settlement for the FPSO Cidade de São Mateus damaged in an explosion in 2015, which killed nine workers. At the time of the incident, the FPSO was operating for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras on the Cam
