Two Petrobras’ FPSOs have collided in a shipyard in southern Brazil, after their moorings were dislodged by severe wind on Saturday, Reuters reports. According to the news agency, Petrobras said it would launch an investigation to assess the level of damage to the floating production storage and offloading units P-58 and P-63. The incident occurred [...]
Wood Group GTS has secured an exclusive term maintenance agreement with Maersk FPSOs to support multiple Siemens gas turbines operating on their Curlew and North Sea Producer Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units. The contract duration is five years. Maersk’s FPSOs operate in some of the most demanding environments in the world and must [...]
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It has been 12 years since the FPSO Congress set sail and it has been a success story year after year. The stage is set for a much bigger event in 2012 as it continues to analyse the inexorable rise of FPSOs.
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Wärtsilä Hamworthy, the global leader in environmental and liquid cargo handling solutions for the marine and oil & gas markets, has underscored its technical prowess in the offshore sector by winning the contract from Brazilian shipyard Ecovix-Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. to deliver Inert Gas Generator (IGG) units to eight floating production, storage and offloading vessels [...]
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Wärtsilä Hamworthy, the global leader in environmental and liquid cargo handling solutions for the marine and oil & gas markets, has won a contract to supply its Flare Gas Recovery packages to four floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units under construction for Petrobras. The units, each of which will be able to handle 150,000bpd, [...]
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Brazil’s oil company Petrobras on Monday signed an agreement for the conversion of four VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) vessels into the hulls of the future P-74, P-75, P-76, and P-77 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels, which will operate in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The total value of the contract is estimated at [...]
The Danish transport company has been awarded an extensive logistics contract in China and Brazil in connection with construction of FPSO unit – floating production, storage, offloading – to the Oil & Gas sector.
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Damen Shipyards is the new operator of French shiprepair yard Sobrena. The yard will be renamed Damen Shiprepair Brest and will continue to serve the maritime and offshore industries with shiprepair and conversion services. The yard has three drydocks (up to 420 x 80 m) and will be available for repair jobs as of Monday, [...]
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BG Group today announced it has received initial approval from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) for up to $1.8 billion of long-term finance to fund part of the company’s interests in the pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Subject to further approvals and the completion of a final agreement, the funding facility will be allocated to [...]
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BW Offshore, the world’s second largest Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) owner and operator, reports an EBITDA of USD 72.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to USD 76.7 million in the previous quarter. The decrease resulted mainly from the lower revenues from the OSX project as the project is completed. BW [...]
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