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
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
