Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology in the Netherlands has received the order to supply and install the electrical installations on four newly built multipurpose heavy lift vessels. The Groningen yard Shipkits, part of the Centraal Steel group, is building the vessels for the Daniel Hartman shipping company in Urk. The four vessels will have a deadweight of [...]
MAN Diesel & Turbo’s medium-speed propulsion packages have gained another foothold in Middle Eastern offshore operations. After successfully completed seatrials, Abu Dhabi-based Adyard has earlier delivered the ‘Topaz Dignity’ – which is now followed by the ‘Topaz Triumph’ AHTS. Topaz Energy and Marine, a subsidiary of Oman-based Renaissance Services SAOG and a regional leader in [...]
In the last 12 months GE has won contracts valued at more than $600 million to provide propulsion systems with customers leading the pre-salt oilfield expansion off Brazil’s east coast.
Aberdeen based safety systems specialist, Process Safety Systems Ltd (PSS) has been awarded a five-year multi million pound contract with oil giant, Total E&P UK Ltd. The contract is expected to create up to 7 new career opportunities with PSS and will see the company provide systems support services across the North Alwyn, Dunbar and [...]
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed a contract with BP for the manufacture and supply of subsea equipment to support the Mad Dog Phase 2 field development. The Mad Dog Phase 2 field development is located near Green Canyon Block 825 of the Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles (240 kilometers) south [...]
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it has secured contracts with a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. to provide three subsea blowout preventer (BOP) control systems. These contracts add over $40 million to Oceaneering’s Subsea Products backlog. The contracts are for discrete hydraulic systems that will be used on existing semi-submersible drilling rigs that Transocean is modifying [...]
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth $160 million from Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. for the design, supply, supervision of installation, testing and commissioning of the main electrical systems for seven next generation drill ships that will operate in the deep water oil and gas fields off the coast of [...]
Navis Engineering is supplying six DP2 systems for the new series of Fast Support Intervention Vessels (FSIVs) being built at the Piriou SEAS shipyard in Vietnam for Paris-based Bourbon, the offshore marine services provider. The first vessel in the six-ship series, the Bourbon Sirocco was delivered towards the end of 2012 and is deployed in [...]
Technip was awarded by GDF SUEZ E&P UK Limited an engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract for the Juliet project, located 40 kilometers East of the Humberside estuary, at a water depth of approximately 20 to 60 meters. This contract, which is a tie-back to the Pickerill A platform, will cover the installation of a: [...]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the Ekofisk 2/4H, 2/4-Q, 2/4-C and 2/4-FTP facilities during the period 19-21 November. In relation to radio and telecommunications systems, the objective of the audit was to verify the technical condition, maintenance, expertise and use of radio and telecommunications systems on the facility. The [...]
