Chevron North Sea Limited has awarded Airborne Oil & Gas a contract for multiple high pressure flexible jumpers for the Alder project. These flexible jumpers will be the first thermoplastic composite pipes to be used in the UK North Sea. Chevron has contributed to the development of thermoplastic co
C&C Technologies, a prominent survey and mapping service provider for the land and offshore oil and gas industry, has purchased the iXBlue fourth-generation GAPS USBL acoustic positioning system for the company’s Mexico division. This will be the first time the system is directly available to custom
As announced previously, nkt cables is involved in the offshore wind farm project “Gemini” developed by Typhoon Offshore B.V. and owned by a consortium of investors. The consortium has now confirmed that the project has reached financial close. With this, nkt cables has now received a binding order
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has announced that Scottish Enterprise will make a new £3.5 million ($5.9 Mln) investment in Scotland’s growing renewable energy sector. Four projects are being supported through the enterprise agency’s Renewable Energy Investment Fund. – Islay Energy Community Benefit S
DONG Energy has contracted SPT Offshore for the structural and geotechnical design of suction bucket foundations for potentially five transformer substations, namely Burbo Bank Extension, Race Bank and Walney Extension. The 4 suction buckets will potentially form the foundation of 4-leg jackets supp
The deadline for Expression of Interest (EoI) for the development of French tidal energy projects was closed on Friday, May 16th. French President François Hollande called for expressions of interest for pilot tidal farms on September 30, 2013. Under the EoI, seven zones have been provided for the i
ConocoPhillips has kicked off drilling operation at the sixth and final well in the Browse Basin Phase 2 exploration drilling campaign, offshore W. Australia. The Pharos-1 well was spudded at 2240 WST on 20 May 2014. As at 0600 WST on 22 May 2014 the well was drilling ahead in the 17-/2” hole sectio
Tangiers Petroleum Limited has advised that drilling of the exploration well TAO-1 off the Moroccan Atlantic coast is on track to begin in mid-late June, with the Ralph Coffman jack-up rig now mobilised.
Plexus Holdings PLC, the owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering has received a Letter of Award for its first contract with Shell China Exploration and Production Company Limited, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc. The contract, which is subject to finalis
EMAS, the operating brand of Ezra Holdings, a leading contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, informed that the Group has won contracts around the world and across its Subsea Services and Offshore Support Services divisions totalling more than US$9
At Heerema Vlissingen, one of the fabrication facilities of Heerema Fabrication Group, the 8,500 t DONG Hejre launch jacket for client Technip, sailed to its offshore location in the Danish sector of the North Sea. The contract comprises the procurement and construction of a jacket, pre-drilling wel
Rowe Technologies recently delivered 12 acoustic Doppler current profilers to be used in the Western Pacific Ocean System project. WPOS was developed by the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Oceanology in Qingdao and will monitor the Kuroshio Current, a north flowing ocean current situated in
LNG Canada has selected CFSW LNG Constructors as its main contractor for the proposed LNG export terminal in Kitimat, British Columbia. CFSW LNG Constructors is a partnership of Chiyoda, Foster Wheeler, SAIPEM and WorleyParsons. The contract covers Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) as well as
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded by 50Hertz Offshore GmbH a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, operator of transmission grids in Germany a new contract worth approximately up to € 730 million (including options for grid connections
