Drydocks World, an international maritime service provider, announced today that Floating Storage Re-gasification Unit (FSRU) Toscana sailed away from Drydocks World – Dubai. The unit, formerly the 138,830-cbm LNG carrier Golar Frost, has been under conversion since June 2009 at Drydocks world Dubai yard for contractor Saipem and owner OLT. The LNG Carrier, built by [...]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has decided to initiate an investigation of the hydrocarbon leak that took place on the Oseberg A platform on 17 June 2013. The hydrocarbon leak occurred just after 07.00 hours on Monday, 17 June, in the M03 main deck area on the Statoil-operated process and living quarters platform Oseberg [...]
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Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has awarded WorleyParsons a contract for the detailed design and engineering for the topsides process modules of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for a deep-water oil field located offshore Nigeria. This major project will be executed under the Nigerian local content law, demonstrating WorleyParsons’ ability to support efforts [...]
Ophir Energy plc (Ophir) announces the spud of the Starfish-1 well in the Ophir operated Offshore Accra PSC. The Starfish-1 well is Ophir’s first well in Ghana and will be drilled by the Stena DrillMax drillship. The Starfish-1 well is located in water depths of 1,500m and has a target depth of 3,850m. The well [...]
STATS Group has successfully completed an isolation project on TAQA’s Brent pipeline at Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetland Islands. BP required to undertake a valve refurbishment operation on the 36” Brent Pipeline Pig Receiver while the pipeline remained in normal operation. Aberdeen-based specialist engineering company STATS were approached to provide a double block isolation [...]
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Handling systems specialist, Caley Ocean Systems has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7 to design, manufacture and supply a deepwater lowering system (DLS). The DLS will initially be deployed by Subsea 7 on the Chevron-operated Gorgon project, located off the northwest coast of Western Australia, to lower subsea structures weighing up to 950Te in [...]
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Petrobras has announced that the FPSO P-63 left the Quip/Honório Bicalho shipyard in the city of Rio Grande (RS) on Tuesday (18/06) after the modules were integrated and the unit was commissioned. The P-63 is one of the new units coming on stream in 2013 helping to increase oil production for Petrobras to reach the [...]
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) and TGS have signed an agreement to jointly invest in a 3D electromagnetic (EM) multi-client survey programme covering 11 blocks, or approximately 3300 km2, in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea. The 3D EM data, which is currently being acquired by EMGS’s vessel Atlantic Guardian, will be sold by both [...]
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Boskalis announces that Dockwise safely and successfully offloaded the 23,000 ton Lucius spar last week for the Lucius deepwater oil and natural gas project located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Lucius truss spar, measuring 184 meters (605 feet) long and 34 meters (110 feet) in diameter, was loaded onto the Mighty Servant 1 by [...]
From 20 June to 20 October, a seismic streamer will be installed on the Snorre field in the North Sea. Trawling activity in the area should be avoided during this period. During the period when the streamer is lying exposed on the seabed, before it is covered, it is extremely vulnerable to any type of [...]
