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
Norway’s BW Offshore has signed an extension agreement for FPSO Abo with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of ENI S.p.A.. According to the FPSO owner, the extension runs until January 20, 2017. “The short term extension has been agreed to secure operational continuity while joint work is c
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has detected several issues during an audit of Shell’s Knarr FPSO offshore Norway. Knarr is located in the North Sea west of Måløy in Sogn og Fjordane county and approx. 50 kilometers north-east of Snorre. The field, which is in 410 meters of water, has been
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras informed on Friday that the hull for the P-68 FPSO has arrived at a Brazilian shipyard for integration operations. The hull for Petrobras’ FPSO unit, meant for the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, arrived at Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Aracruz shipyard in Brazil on Wednesday,
FPSO specialist BW Offshore is forming an oil and gas company, and is buying a stake in an offshore block in Gabon. The provider of floating production units has formed a joint venture company with BW Group, known as BW Energy Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“BWEH”), for the purpose of pursuing oil and gas inte
ExxonMobil has awarded a contract to SBM Offshore to supply an FPSO unit for its giant Liza discovery offshore Guyana. According to ExxonMobil, this floating production storage and offloading vessel deal marks a key step in moving the Liza field toward first production. SBM Offshore, the world’s lar
Shell has shared a video representing several milestones achieved in 2016 during the construction of its giant Prelude FLNG project. The company is building the floating LNG unit in South Korea. Once complete it will be moved offshore W. Australia where it will produce gas from the Prelude field, an
Australia’s Programmed has been awarded a contract by Technip Oceania for the provision of support services on the Prelude FLNG project. The company specialzing in providing staffing, maintenance, and facility management services, will provide manning and logistical support to Technip during hook‐up
French oilfield services provider Technip has been awarded an engineering and project management services contract by Shell in Australia. This contract will provide multi-disciplinary engineering and design services in support of the Prelude FLNG project and will allow the smooth delivery of brownfi
Chevron has canceled the order for an FPSO unit that was slated for the development of the Rosebank field in the UK North Sea. According to Hyundai Heavy Industries, Chevron sent a termination notice on Tuesday, December 13, for the 2.3 trillion Korean Won order. Converted to U.S. dollars, the order
Eni’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Armada Olombendo has arrived at its final destination on Block 15/06 offshore Angola. The vessel was built by Keppel’s shipyard in Singapore for the Malaysian FPSO operator Bumi Armada, and chartered to the Italian oil company Eni. Eni n
This Friday seems to be about Floating LNG news. Following the news that Petronas has produced first LNG from its first FLNG unit in Malaysia, and that CHC will provide more helicopters for Shell’s large Prelude FLNG project in Australia, there’s more on FLNG. Namely, Japan’s JGC Corporation has rec
Teekay has posted a video on Thursday showing the conversion of the Brazil-bound FPSO Pioneiro de Libra, sharing some interesting numbers. The company said that the Pioneiro de Libra FPSO conversion required a project team of 162 people, a commissioning team of more than 40 people and more than 3000
