BW Offshore-owned FPSO BW Catcher arrived at the Premier Oil-operated Catcher field in the UK sector of the North Sea last Wednesday, October 18. The FPSO Catcher started its journey from Singapore, where it was built by Keppel Shipyard, in late August following completion of sea trials. It arrived
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine & Engineering is reportedly on the verge of bagging a contract to build components for Statoil’s Johan Castberg FPSO. According to Business Korea website, DSME, subject to the signing of the contract, will build the hull and the living quarters of the FPSO de
Brazil’s Petrobras has selected Japan’s MODEC for the delivery of an FPSO for its Sepia development in Brazil. According to the Japanese floating production systems supplier, the contract for the supply, charter, and operations of the FPSO was signed on October 13, 2017. The firm charter period of t
Four companies, Add Energy, Transborders Energy (TBE), TechnipFMC, MODEC have teamed up to create what they say is a unique and fast deployment business model for the FLNG industry
Engineering services specialist EnerMech has been awarded a hose supply and services contract for Shell’s Prelude FLNG offshore Western Australia. According to EnerMech’s statement, the contract is for a duration of five years. The Prelude FLNG contract will be conducted by EnerMech’s Henderson base
LNG shipping company Golar LNG has informed that the FLNG Hilli Episeyo departed Singapore at 10:00 local time on Thursday, October 12. Initially, the vessel was expected to leave Singapore between October 15 and October 20. Golar LNG said that the departure was earlier than anticipated departure du
Keppel Offshore & Marine’s subsidiary Keppel Shipyard has secured a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) conversion contract from SBM Offshore meant for ExxonMobil’s Liza field offshore Guyana. The contract is for the conversion of a very large crude carrier (VLCC) into an FPSO,
UAE’s Drydocks World has signed an agreement for two new projects with Bluewater Energy Services and end client Hurricane Energy. The ship repair and construction company said on Wednesday that the yard would undertake a repair, life extension, and upgrade project on floating production storage and
LNG shipping company Golar LNG has informed that the FLNG Hilli Episeyo departed from Keppel Shipyard in Singapore on Sunday, October 1. The vessel was named Hilli Episeyo at a ceremony in Keppel Shipyard in early July. Having reached mechanical completion, the world’s first converted Floating Lique
Bluewater-owned FPSO Aoka Mizu, which will operate on Hurricane Energy’s Lancaster field off the UK, has arrived at a shipyard in Dubai for upgrade work. The UK-based oil and gas company informed on Monday that the FPSO unit Aoka Mizu had arrived at Drydocks World Dubai shipyard on Saturday, Septemb
Keppel FELS Brasil’s BrasFELS shipyard has handed over the Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29 FPSO to MODEC. The floating production storage and offloading unit left the shipyard recently for the Bananal Bay in Brazil. It will subsequently be deployed in the Petrobras-run Tartaruga Verde and Tarta
Hilli Episeyo, soon to be operational as Cameroon’s first FLNG unit, has become a part of the first commercial Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker transfer in Singapore. Namel, FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd (Shell), has achieved the milestone by completi
Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil and gas company, expects to make the final investment decision (FID) on its Fortuna FLNG project in Equatorial Guinea in the fourth quarter of 2017. Ophir said on Thursday in its half-year report that ‘significant’ steps were made in the first half of 2017 towards t
Malaysia’s Bumi Armada has informed that its Armada Kraken FPSO, operating on the Kraken field in the UK North Sea has completed the offloading of its first cargo on September 12, 2017. The Kraken is a large heavy oil accumulation in the UK North Sea, located in the East Shetland basin, to the west
