The President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, has dismissed the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Pedro Conceição Couto, from the position via presidential order. The office of the President informed the media on Thursday morning that the measure was taken within the pow
Malaysia’s MISC Berhad has hosted the sail away of its Marginal Marine Production Unit, a fit-for-purpose FPSO for the development of marginal fields, in a ceremony today in MMHE East Yard, Pasir Gudang, Malaysia. The first deployment of MaMPU 1 as the FPSO is named, will be at Anjung Kecil oil fiel
Fabricom Offshore Services has been awarded a one-year contract extension by Bluewater Services (U.K.) for the provision of engineering and associated services to their fleet of floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs). Effective immediately, Fabricom Offshore Services, a provider
Wison Offshore & Marine has informed that the first natural gas floating liquefaction unit (FLNG), for which the company provided turnkey services for Exmar, has completed its performance test at the Wison yard in Nantong, China. According to Wison’s statement on Tuesday, this marks the first time i
UK’s offshore services provider Petrofac has reportedly completed the takeover of the Lewek Emas FPSO. The sale of the FPSO was previously agreed in principle, between Emas Offshore and PetroFirst. PetroFirst is a joint venture between First Reserve, a global, private equity and infrastructure inves
MHI Compressor do Brasil Ltda. (MCO-B) held an opening ceremony on September 21 in Piracicaba, in São Paulo state, Brazil, to mark the launch of full-scale operations. MCO-B is a Brazilian joint venture (JV) established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (MCO), a Hiroshima-based G
A Malaysian news website has issued a report claiming that that FPSO provider Bumi Armada is still in talks with the UK oil company EnQuest regarding a $65 million refund and liquidation damages claim by EnQuest due to a delay in delivery of the Armada Kraken FPSO. The Malaysian company, however, ha
Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil and gas company, is making progress with its floating LNG project in Equatorial Guinea where it is working on developing the gas reserves found in the offshore Block R. The company on Thursday said the upstream part of the Fortuna FLNG project was ‘technically ready
Earlier this week, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell started production from the Stones development, the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas project, located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The host facility for the Stones field is the Turritella floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit owned
Fjords Processing has completed and delivered a sulfate removal unit (SRU) and seawater injection treatment package which will be used on the Petrobras P-75 FPSO in Brazil. The company said on Thursday that the unit was built for offshore contractor QGI Brasil, who is running the FPSO topsides const
Automation specialist Emerson has secured work on world’s largest offshore facility ever built, the Prelude FLNG facility, operated by Shell. Shell has selected Emerson to provide automation maintenance and reliability services for the company’s floating LNG facility, currently under construction in
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, is testing what it says it the world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350, ahead of the real work on an FPSO integration. The testing is being conducted in Brazil, where the crane has been rigged for the first time and
Japanese floating production vessel provider MODEC, Inc. has secured a contract extension for the operation of an FPSO unit in Brazil. Royal Dutch Shell plc has extended its contract with MODEC for operations & maintenance of the FPSO Fluminense with effect from August 2016 to December 2020. The FPS
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine is set to deliver a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel to Malaysian shipowner Bumi Armada. The naming ceremony of the FPSO, Armada Kraken, was held at Keppel Shipyard on Saturday, August 27, 2016. Armada Kraken is a harsh-environment FPSO un
