Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea’s automatic release clamp (ARC) connector technology for bend stiffeners has been used to successfully attach six Technip bend stiffeners for lift and production flexible risers, to the Glas Dowr FPSO in the Kitan oil field. Designed for riser and umbilical bend stiffener connections where external intervention is difficult, First Subsea’s [...]
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In 2012 Gazprom will launch gas production from the Kirinskoye gas and condensate field on the Sakhalin shelf as part of the Sakhalin III project. For the first time ever natural gas will be produced by a subsea production system in Russia. By the moment, a gathering manifold to intake gas mixture from wells has [...]
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On March 28, 2012, China’s leading private shipbuilding company SINOPACIFIC Shipbuilding Group’s Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. held a grand naming ceremony for its first self-designed and the world’s most advanced small AHTS offshore support vessel(OSV) – SPA 80 Diesel Electric DPII 80mt AHTS. It was named BAHTERA MULIA and delivered to French shipowner BOURBON. Liberty [...]
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The first phase of a multi-million pound redevelopment project of Aberdeen Harbour’s Torry Quay has been completed. A project milestone, it was marked by the platform supply vessel Skandi Foula, which docked at the quay before loading cargo destined for a North Sea installation. The vessel, chartered by the oil giant, Shell, is the first [...]
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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation , as operator, today announced first production at the Caesar/Tonga development in the Green Canyon area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Production from Caesar/Tonga, with an estimated resource base of 200 to 400 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), is expected to ramp up to approximately 45,000 BOE per day from [...]
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Read More » Anadarko Petroleum Corporation today announced the results of its first flow test offshore Mozambique. The Barquentine-2 well flowed at an equipment-constrained rate of 90 to 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d), with minimal pressure drawdown, providing confidence in well designs that are capable of 100 to 200 MMcf/d. “The test at Barquentine-2 exhibited exceptional [...]
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Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (GSP) has been awarded a contract by Wintershall Noordzee B.V., for offshore drilling. The first concerns the rig GSP Saturn, presently located on the continental shelf of Tunisia, which will be relocated to provide offshore drilling services under a long term contract, initially in the Dutch sector. GSP Saturn is scheduled [...]
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Saudi Arabia’s state run oil giant, Saudi Aramco, has decided that the company is ready for deepwater exploration in the Red Sea.
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Atlantic Maritime Group, Sharjah, UAE has recently taken delivery of the tug AOS Power. Designed by Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada and built by GMG Shipbuilding & Heavy Industry Co. Ltd., China, AOS Power is the very first of the RAmpage 4500 class design. This vessel is fully equipped for anchor handling, ship-assist, long [...]
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French supermajor Total, operator of Block OML138, announces the start-up of production of the offshore Usan field in Nigeria, in line with the planned schedule. Usan is the second deep offshore development operated by Total in Nigeria, coming on stream less than three years after Akpo. Discovered in 2002, the Usan field lies around 100 [...]
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