The Johan Castberg partners have studied a possible development of a downscaled ship-to-ship oil transfer terminal at Veidnes in Finnmark county in North Norway, and have concluded that the costs of constructing a terminal would be too high.
The Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 will be highly competitive, with multiple developers vying to take a slice of a 7GW opportunity, according to Tristan Chapman, Senior Vice President of Renewables and Innovation from Lloyd’s Register. As previously reported, the Crown Estate opened th
The construction and the outfitting of the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Krios, being built by Royal IHC for Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., is moving according to schedule. This newbuild will be a sister vessel of the CSD Helios, taken into service in 2017. The CSD Krios will have a total installed
Damen Shipyards Group has signed a Damen Technical Cooperation (DTC) contract with Cotecmar. The contract will see DTC provide design, engineering and technical assistance for the construction of a Scientific Marine Research Vessel (Buque de Investigación Científico Marina (BICM)). Cotecmar, operati
OneSubsea has been awarded a contract by Chevron for the supply of an integrated subsea production and multiphase boosting system for the Anchor Field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The subsea technologies, production and processing systems division of Schlumberger will supply vertical monobore productio
Oil major Chevron has sanctioned the Anchor project located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
SBM Offshore has signed contracts with Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) for the 22.5 years lease and operation of FPSO Sepetiba (formerly known as Mero 2). These contracts follow the signing of the binding Letter of Intent (LOI) in June 2019. FPSO Sepetiba will be deployed at the Mero field in the Sa
Polarcus has been awarded a marine seismic acquisition program in Brazil. The acquisition is planned to begin in Q3 2020, the company informed. The project duration is approximately 10 months. The program comprises 4D acquisition in obstructed areas with a multi-azimuth component. Polarcus did not d
Subsea 7 has secured a sizeable contract, worth between USD 50 million and USD 150 million, by Aker BP for the Ærfugl Phase 2 gas field development, in the Norwegian Sea. This EPCI contract is a long-distance tie-back involving the application of Subsea 7’s Electrically Heat Traced Flowline (EHTF) t
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Aker BP to deliver the subsea production system for the second phase of the Ærfugl development offshore Norway. The subsea delivery will include wellheads, vertical subsea trees, satellite structures, control systems, a tie-in module and about 30 kilom
Wison Offshore & Marine started the fabrication for Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 Project at its Zhoushan Yard in China on November 29, 2019.
EGS Group has secured a contract to carry out a geophysical survey at Ørsted’s Ocean Wind offshore wind project in New Jersey, the U.S. EGS will use the 50m survey vessel MV Neptune to conduct the survey work at different areas of the 1,100MW wind farm located approximately 15 miles off the coast of
EGS has been awarded a new contract in support of Ørsted’s efforts in the US, after the completion of the 2018 survey on the Bay State Wind development. The scope of work covers a geophysical survey to be carried out in the framework of the development of the Ocean Wind offshore wind farm, located a
DOF Subsea has entered into a 2-month long contract with an international energy client in Africa. The project will utilise Skandi Seven and start operations in direct continuation with the ongoing commitment for the vessel. DOF Subsea will during this project deliver integrated FSV services, projec
