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
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
