A joint venture company has been established to develop the Fortuna FLNG project, in Ophir-operated Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea, with final investment decision (FID) targeted for the first half of 2017. Ophir Holdings & Ventures LTD, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ophir Energy, and OneLNGSM, a
Dutch provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units to the offshore oil and gas industry, SBM Offshore, has been selected by EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) to provide floating wind systems solution for a pilot project offshore France. As a part of the French government’s turn
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil is pushing forward with repair works on the Jubilee field FPSO, offshore Ghana. Tullow, the operator of the Jubilee field, said in an update on Wednesday that the Jubilee field FPSO turret remediation project is progressing as planned and that the interim spread-moorin
Oil and gas company EnQuest has reported that the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Kraken development has left Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore heading to deepwater anchorage. According to an update from EnQuest on Monday, the vessel, named Armada Kr
Oil and gas company Mubadala Petroleum has reached an agreement with Petrofac for the modification and extension of contracts related to the FPF-003 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (Jasmine FPSO), located in the Gulf of Thailand. The Jasmine field is operated by Mubadala Petroleum
Keppel Offshore & Marine’s subsidiary Keppel Shipyard informed on Monday it is on track to deliver what it claims is one of the world’s largest Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO) to Bumi Armada Berhad for operations in offshore Angola. The naming ceremony of the FPSO, Armada O
Keppel Offshore & Marine’s (Keppel O&M) subsidiary Keppel Shipyard is on track to deliver a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel to Armada Madura EPC Limited. Armada Madura is a joint venture between Shapoorji Pallonji Group (Shapoorji Pallonji) and Bumi Armada Berhad (BAB). The
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has won contracts to provide marine warranty services to three different FPSO projects in Brazil. Aqualis said on Thursday it won a contract with MODEC for marine warranty surveyor work on the integration of the MV29 FPSO at BrasFELS’ ship
Bluewater, a provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels, has been awarded a one-year contract extension for the FPSO Bleo Holm. The FPSO Bleo Holm has been working for Repsol Sinopec Resources UK, previously Talisman Energy, in the UK sector of the North Sea since 1999. Th
Italian oil company Eni has informed that the naming ceremony of the Armada Olombendo floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel was held on Friday in Singapore. The FPSO will operate in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, for the East Hub Development Project. The Italian oil company said on
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has started a new bid process for the FPSO to be deployed at the Libra field pilot project in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil; this time with lower local content requirements. The company canceled the previous bid process, which began in August 2015, as it had recei
Swedish engineering company Trelleborg has supplied a selection of bearing solutions for the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project – Shell’s Prelude FLNG. Trelleborg said on Thursday that its engineered products operation manufactured and delivered 52 vertical elastomeric beari
Italian oil giant, or in this case gas giant, Eni, has made a major step ahead of the expected final investment decision for the development of the giant Coral gas field offshore Mozambique. Namely, Eni and its partners in the Area 4 concession have managed to find a major customer for the gas to be
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, has performed its inaugural lifts on the P-74 FPSO project in Brazil with what the company says is the world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350. To remind, the crane was load-tested in preparation for its first lifts
