Deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, has won a spooling contract with Oceaneering on the world’s largest offshore facility ever built, the Prelude FLNG facility, operated by Shell. ACE said on Wednesday that this would be the first time that the newly developed 500 tonnes reel drive system is use
Norway’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has decided to carry out a full safety audit of Eni’s Goliat FPSO in the Barents Sea, following a number of incidents last year. According to a report by Dagens Næringsliv, a Norwegian news website, the agency will in January
FPSO operator BW Offshore has signed an agreement with its insurers for an early repair cost settlement for the FPSO Cidade de São Mateus damaged in an explosion in 2015, which killed nine workers. At the time of the incident, the FPSO was operating for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras on the Cam
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has detected several issues during an audit of Shell’s Knarr FPSO offshore Norway. Knarr is located in the North Sea west of Måløy in Sogn og Fjordane county and approx. 50 kilometers north-east of Snorre. The field, which is in 410 meters of water, has been
Chevron has canceled the order for an FPSO unit that was slated for the development of the Rosebank field in the UK North Sea. According to Hyundai Heavy Industries, Chevron sent a termination notice on Tuesday, December 13, for the 2.3 trillion Korean Won order. Converted to U.S. dollars, the order
Hurricane Energy, a UK-based oil and gas company, has signed heads of terms with Bluewater Energy Services for the use of the Aoka Mizu floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) on the company’s Lancaster field, West of Shetland. Hurricane informed on Monday it intends to use the Aoka
Norwegian FPSO supplier BW Offshore has been informed by Statoil and Petronas that the contracts for two FPSO units will not be extended and will run out next year. On top of this, the company has initiated arbitration against a client who is not paying an FPSO lease. All this was revealed by BW Off
Malaysia’s FPSO provider Bumi Armada has shared a photo of the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit meant for the Kraken field development beginning its journey from Singapore to its North Sea location. The caption is convenient: “Release the Kraken!” According to Bumi Armada, th
The video above, shared by the UK oil giant BP, shows the giant Glen Lyon FPSO from the bird’s-eye perspective. Replacing the original Schiehallion FPSO, the 270-meter Glen Lyon FPSO, moored in the North Sea west of the Shetland Islands, is getting ready for a start of production from the Quad204 of
EnQuest, a UK-based E&P company, has informed that the FPSO unit meant for the Kraken field development will sail away from Singapore to its North Sea location ‘in the coming days’. The harsh-environment floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Armada Kraken, named in August 2016,
Dutch provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units to the offshore oil and gas industry, SBM Offshore, has been selected by EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) to provide floating wind systems solution for a pilot project offshore France. As a part of the French government’s turn
Oil and gas company EnQuest has reported that the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Kraken development has left Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore heading to deepwater anchorage. According to an update from EnQuest on Monday, the vessel, named Armada Kr
Bluewater, a provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels, has been awarded a one-year contract extension for the FPSO Bleo Holm. The FPSO Bleo Holm has been working for Repsol Sinopec Resources UK, previously Talisman Energy, in the UK sector of the North Sea since 1999. Th
Swedish engineering company Trelleborg has supplied a selection of bearing solutions for the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project – Shell’s Prelude FLNG. Trelleborg said on Thursday that its engineered products operation manufactured and delivered 52 vertical elastomeric beari
