Offshore rig builder Sembcorp Marine has secured hull carry over works from Tupi B.V. for the FPSO P-68 Tupi project in Brazil. Sembcorp Marine said on Monday that the contract was secured through its Brazilian subsidiary, Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), and it was worth worth about $145 million. Tu
Classification society DNV GL has awarded class to BP’s Glen Lyon floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel located west of Shetland. DNV GL’s Maritime and Oil & Gas business areas have been working closely together, to provide BP with a broad range of technical skills required for th
Dutch provider of offshore support vessels, Vroon, has entered into a five-year charter plus options with Premier Oil for one of its emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRV). Vroon said on Wednesday that the vessel in question was the VOS Famous. The company added that the vessel would attend Pr
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has announced a second “major contract” for Eni’s Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The company said on Wednesday that the contract was awarded in 2Q this year by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation, the lead partner in a consortium t
Norwegian oil services company Aibel has been chosen to prepare Teekay’s Petrojarl I FPSO for redeployment offshore Brazil. Aibel said via social media on Monday that, during the next month, the company’s Haugesund yard will prepare the FPSO for its upcoming duties at the Atlanta field offshore Braz
BW Offshore-owned FPSO BW Catcher has left Keppel Shipyard in Singapore and is currently in transit to the Premier Oil-operated Catcher field in the UK sector of the North Sea. The FPSO was built by Keppel Shipyard where a naming ceremony was held in April. Before it headed to its final offshore loc
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has completed its position keeping role for the Ichthys Venturer FPSO, which is now fully moored in Australian waters. The operator of the project, Inpex, announced on August 14 that the Ichthys Venturer FPSO had arrived in Australian wate
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) was moored on Thursday in the Ichthys field, 220 kilometres off the north coast of Western Australia. The massive 336-meter-long FPSO, named Ichthys Venturer, reached Australian waters in mid-August,
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, has found several improvement points during an audit of Teekay Petrojarl Production and its maintenance management of the Petrojarl Knarr FPSO. The Knarr field, operated by Shell, is in the northern sector of the North Sea, around 50 ki
Premier Oil, a UK independent, has lifted its full year production target as the sailaway date of the Catcher FPSO approaches. During the first half of the year, Premier had a record production of 82.1 kboepd, up 34.5 per cent on the first half of 2016. Strong production in the first half, and the e
UK oil and gas company EnQuest has downgraded its full year oil production forecast amid topside commissioning delays with the Armada Kraken FPSO in the Kraken field, offshore the UK. The Kraken is a large heavy oil accumulation in the UK North Sea, located in the East Shetland basin, to the west of
Cairn Energy, a London-listed oil company, has shed some light on the development progress of its large SNE oil discovery offshore Senegal. The company said on Monday detailed planning was underway for the for phased development of SNE field using a standalone FPSO with subsea wells and expansion ca
With the recent deliveries of two giant FLNG units to Australia, the Ichthys Venturer and the Prelude, the next unit is destined for Africa’s Cameroon. Namely, Golar LNG has informed that the conversion of the Hilli Episeyo tanker to an FLNG unit is nearing completion and “no major issues have been
Ophir Energy has informed that Gunvor Group has been nominated as the preferred buyer of LNG for offtake from the Fortuna FLNG project, offshore Equatorial Guinea. According to Ophir, principal commercial terms subject to finalizing a Sale and Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) for the offtake ahead of the
