Ensco plc announced that a subsidiary of the Company has purchased Diamond Offshore’s Ocean Shield jackup drilling rig, a KFELS Super B Class design, delivered in 2008. The rig will be renamed ENSCO 109. The unique design includes two million pound hoisting capacity, a 15,000 psi high-pressure BOP a
Following a successful run of deliveries to Bourbon’s Liberty 200 series of AHTS vessels, the offshore services specialist has now placed orders for a further four state-of-the-art MacGregor anchor-handling systems from Cargotec Cargotec has won a contract to supply four sets of MacGregor anchor-han
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Gazprom Dobycha Shelf LLC for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Kirinskoye field. The award has a value of approximately $190 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. Kirinskoye is a sub
Siemens Energy has received an order to supply a complete main refrigerant compressor train to China. Purchaser is Shaanxi Zhongyuan Green Energy Natural Gas Company Ltd. The Siemens solution consists of a 0.2 MTPA (million tons per annum) electric-motor-driven centrifugal compressor to be installed
International energy company Statoil has partnered with SINTEF, Scandinavia’s largest independent research organization, and Nacre, developers of award-winning intelligent hearing protection and communication technology, to create the next generation of intelligent hearing protection and communicati
In reference to announcement made on June 8, 2010, Sevan Marine ASA, on behalf of one of its subsidiaries, has received commitment from ING Bank to arrange and underwrite the USD 230 million Senior Secured Credit Facility for FPSO Sevan Voyageur. The fully documented loan agreement is expected to be
Doug Suttles, Chief Operating Officer of BP Exploration and Production, met with Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) participants to view operations and discuss a number of enhancements made to the VoO program. Through these modifications, the program will more effectively deploy boats to oil recovery acti
Aberdeen mechanical service company EnerMech has been awarded an £8.2million contract in Azerbaijan.The crane operation, maintenance and… [mappress] Source: Pressandjournal, July 6, 2010;
Nearly 1200 multiphase flow meters using Vx technology has now been sold worldwide by Framo Engineering and Schlumberger. The PhaseWatcher Vx multiphase flow meter (MPFM) is finding an ever-increasing acceptance onshore, offshore and subsea where operators now are achieving an increasing level of re
Wellstream, a leading manufacturer and supplier of flexible pipe systems and solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry announces the award from OGX Petroleo e Gas of a contract to supply flexible risers and flowlines mid-water arches, umbilicals and other associated equipment and services. The
Subsea 7 Inc can confirm today that the US $75m North Sea pipeline bundle contract award it announced on 26th April 2010 was for Apache North Sea Ltd’s Bacchus Subsea Development Project in the UK sector of the North Sea. The Subsea 7 work scope is to engineer, procure, fabricate, install and commis
APL, a division of BW Offshore, has signed a contract with ENI Norge AS for the supply of a complete offloading system. The system will be installed on the Goliat FPSO, which will operate in the Arctic waters of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The offloading system is based on the Stern Discharge S
Technip has been awarded a lump sum engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) contract by Burullus Gas Company SAE(1) for the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Phase VIIIa development project. The contract value is in excess of USD300 million. The project consists in the expansion o
ITALDRAGHE is specialized in manufacturing cutter suction and backflow dredgers, dredging systems with deep water submergible pumps,… [mappress] Source: ITALDRAGHE, June 29, 2010
