Malaysian FPSO operator Bumi Armada has allowed Erin Energy to flow its Oyo field oil into cargo tanks of the FPSO Armada Perdana, despite Erin’s outstanding debts towards the vessel owner. To remind, Bumi Armada back in June suspended the bareboat charter and operations and maintenance contracts wi
World’s largest FPSO provider SBM Offshore is pressing forward with its Fast4Ward program. The program has been designed to standardize the FPSO construction and delivery process, thus reducing cost and speeding up the time to the market. SBM Offshore, whose FPSO fleet produces around 10 percent of
Norwegian provider of lifesaving systems Norsafe has secured its largest ever offshore contract to supply lifesaving appliances to Eni’s Coral South floating LNG (FLNG) facility, off Mozambique. The unit will be located in Area 4, approximately 50 km from the Mozambique coast. Norsafe said that the
Mexican company Pemex Exploracion y Produccion has begun scheduled maintenance activities on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Yuum K’ak’naab, located in the Campeche Sound in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Pemex said last week that the maintenance activities on
China’s Wison Offshore & Marine has completed the final delivery for Exmar’s Caribbean FLNG, described by Wison as the world’s first barge-based floating natural gas liquefaction and storage facility (Caribbean FLNG). Prior to the delivery, the contracts for project financing provided by Bank of Chi
Karoon Gas Australia has approved the development concept for the Echidna prospect offshore Brazil following a year and a half of work on subsurface evaluation. The project, planned to be developed using an FPSO unit, and located in the Santos Basin, will progress to the next phase of the developmen
Shell’s giant Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) vessel has reached Australian waters following a journey from a shipyard in South Korea. The vessel headed from the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea to Australia at the end of June. Prelude is the first deployment of Shell’s FLNG technology,
Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel—Ichthys Venturer—sailed away on July 18 from waters near its construction site in Okpo, South Korea. The FPSO left the shipyard over the weekend to undertake final preparation, commissioning activities and
Engineering company Monadelphous has been awarded a number of new work packages with a combined value of approximately $55 million, including work on the Shell-operated Prelude FLNG project off Australia. In an update on Wednesday, the company said it has been awarded a contract for piping modificat
Sofec, a Modec group company, has been awarded the turret mooring system supply contract for the Coral South Project by the joint venture consisting of TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation. Italy’s Eni, as the operator, sanctioned the Coral South floating LNG (FLNG) project offshore Mozambique at the begi
The Ichthys Venturer, an FPSO destined for the Inpex-operated Ichthys field in Australia, has left the shipyard in South Korea. According to the FPSO’s AIS data, provided by Marine Traffic, the Ichthys Venturer left the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering shipyard over the weekend and is now lo
TechnipFMC’s construction vessel Deep Orient is all set to go and work on the Shell-operated Prelude project, which is located offshore Australia. Back in 2012, before Technip merged with FMC Technologies to form TechnipFMC, the company won a subsea contract from Shell for the Prelude floating LNG (
First oil from Premier Oil-operated Catcher development in the UK sector of the North Sea remains on track for later this year with sailaway date for the FPSO unit set for next month. The Catcher, made up of several fields discovered between 2010 and 2013, is located 170 kilometers south-east of Abe
Shell has exercised its option to buy SBM Offshore’s FPSO Turritella, which is being used to produce oil from Shell’s Stones field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. According to a statement by SBM Offshore, the acquisition allows Shell to assume operatorship of the Stones development in its entirety, crea
