The Eni-operated Goliat development project in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway, has hit yet another stumbling block. Namely, the Norwegian oil industry’s safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, has slapped the oil company with notification of orders, following audit conducted on the
EPA is proposing to amend its 2005 rule that designated the Central and Western Long Island Sound Dredged Material Disposal Sites. These amendments are available for public review and comment through March 25, 2016. EPA will also hold two public hearings on the proposed amendments in early March. Th
Subsea 7 and National Oilwell Varco (NOV) have won the front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the Sea Lion project, Rockhopper Exploration informed today. Namely, the FEED contract for SURF transport and installation has been awarded to Subsea 7, while NOV scored the flexibles FEED de
Tulsa-based Williams Partners said on Wednesday it has signed contracts to deliver natural gas to two LNG export plants being built by Cheniere Energy and Freeport LNG Development in Texas. Williams informed in a statement that it has won the contracts for Gulf Connector, a 475,000 dekatherm per day
Neptune has been awarded an air diving services contract by Technip Oceania (Technip) for the Kitan disconnection project. The project includes the provision of air diving services to assist with the disconnection and abandonment of risers, mooring chains and the umbilical from the Glas Dowr FPSO in
Byron Energy, the operator of several blocks in the Gulf of Mexico, has mobilised Hercules Offshore’s drilling rig Hercules 205 to the SM-6 #2 well location in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The rig was recently released by its previous operator, Renaissance, and it will operate for Byron under a dayrate
Technip was awarded by Statoil two contracts for infield pipeline construction for the Johan Sverdrup Development and the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 projects. The first development phase of Johan Sverdrup field, one of the largest oil fields in the North Sea, is targeted to be on-stream in 2019. The Oseb
SCT&E LNG said Thursday it has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the sale of 1 mtpa of LNG from its proposed export plant on Monkey Island in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. According to a statement by SCT&E LNG, this multi-billion dollar deal was signed with one of Asia’s largest util
Associated British Ports (ABP) has just released a video of the progress being made on the Green Port Hull project. Green Port Hull will provide the UK’s largest offshore wind manufacturing, assembly and installation facility at the Port of Hull Alexandra Dock. Together with development partner Asso
EMAS AMC has hired Italian diving specialist Rana to provide diving services for the installation and hook up of the new floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel Gaza. The FSO Gaza will replace the FSO Sloug at Bouri field located 120 kilometers north of the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea
Singapore’s Flash Tekk Engineering has awarded the design and manufacture of Self-Propelled Hyperbaric Lifeboats (SPHL) contract to JFD – Divex. The SPHLs are to be installed as part of the 18-man saturation diving system on the Van Gogh diving support vessels (DSV). These are currently under constr
Aker Solutions will deliver a concept study on a new processing platform for future phases of the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup North Sea field. The study includes design solutions for a tie-in of the platform and future satellites to the field center that is being developed in the project’s first
Norwegian ocean-bottom seismic specialist, Magseis, has, in combination with China’s BGP, secured a contract on Saudi Aramco’s S78 project for seismic acquisition in the Red Sea. On January 19, BGP informed it had won the bidding on Saudi Aramcos S78 project. The S78 is Saudi Aramcos’ first 3D surve
Gasum and Pöyry said on Tuesday they have signed a five-year framework agreement for engineering and project implementation services to develop Gasum’s natural gas projects in Finland. The agreement covers project management, HSE, procurement, engineering, document management and other related servi
