Upgrade work on Teekay’s Petrojarl I FPSO destined to be redeployed in Brazil after having spent almost three decades in the North Sea area, has finally been completed. Damen Shipyard, which has been working on preparing the vessel for Brazil since the early 2015, on Friday said the work had been co
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has connected all 16 mooring lines of its giant Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) vessel set at the Prelude field, offshore Australia. The 488-meter-long and 74-meter-wide floating facility left the shipyard in South Korea in late June and reached the Australian waters in late
Golar LNG, Keppel, and Black and Veatch have entered into an agreement to sell its stakes in Golar Hilli, a company that owns the Hilli Episeyo FLNG vessel. The FLNG unit, being converted in the Keppel yard in Singapore, will be deployed later this year in Cameroon, to produce gas for Perenco. The t
BW Offshore-owned floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel BW Catcher, built for Premier Oil-operated Catcher development in the UK sector of the North Sea, is undergoing marine trials in Singapore ahead of its departure to final offshore location. Earlier this week, Premier Oil laun
Dutch provider of floating production systems to the international offshore oil and gas industry, SBM Offshore, has sold its previously demobilized FPSO Marlim Sul for recycling. SBM said in its 2017 half-year financial results this week that the FPSO, removed from the Petrobras-operated oil field,
Norway’s FPE Sontum has reportedly scored a contract worth 100 million Norwegian Crowns with Statoil. According to Petro.no, a Norwegian language oil and gas news website, FPE Sontum will provide its fire extinguishing systems for the Johan Castberg FPSO. The contract includes project management, de
Malaysian FPSO operator Bumi Armada has allowed Erin Energy to flow its Oyo field oil into cargo tanks of the FPSO Armada Perdana, despite Erin’s outstanding debts towards the vessel owner. To remind, Bumi Armada back in June suspended the bareboat charter and operations and maintenance contracts wi
World’s largest FPSO provider SBM Offshore is pressing forward with its Fast4Ward program. The program has been designed to standardize the FPSO construction and delivery process, thus reducing cost and speeding up the time to the market. SBM Offshore, whose FPSO fleet produces around 10 percent of
Norwegian provider of lifesaving systems Norsafe has secured its largest ever offshore contract to supply lifesaving appliances to Eni’s Coral South floating LNG (FLNG) facility, off Mozambique. The unit will be located in Area 4, approximately 50 km from the Mozambique coast. Norsafe said that the
Mexican company Pemex Exploracion y Produccion has begun scheduled maintenance activities on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Yuum K’ak’naab, located in the Campeche Sound in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Pemex said last week that the maintenance activities on
China’s Wison Offshore & Marine has completed the final delivery for Exmar’s Caribbean FLNG, described by Wison as the world’s first barge-based floating natural gas liquefaction and storage facility (Caribbean FLNG). Prior to the delivery, the contracts for project financing provided by Bank of Chi
Karoon Gas Australia has approved the development concept for the Echidna prospect offshore Brazil following a year and a half of work on subsurface evaluation. The project, planned to be developed using an FPSO unit, and located in the Santos Basin, will progress to the next phase of the developmen
Shell’s giant Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) vessel has reached Australian waters following a journey from a shipyard in South Korea. The vessel headed from the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea to Australia at the end of June. Prelude is the first deployment of Shell’s FLNG technology,
Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel—Ichthys Venturer—sailed away on July 18 from waters near its construction site in Okpo, South Korea. The FPSO left the shipyard over the weekend to undertake final preparation, commissioning activities and
