Malaysia’s Bumi Armada and India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Oil & Gas have established a joint venture company in Ghana. The Joint Venture named Bumi Armada Shapoorji Pallonji Ghana Limited (“BASPG”), was established on June 5, 2017, in Ghana, and it received the certificate of incorporation June 10, 2017
Maersk’s former floating production vessel North Sea Producer has hit the headlines again after high levels of radioactive materials were found on the vessel being scrapped at a Bangladeshi shipyard. DanWatch, a Danish independent investigative and research center, has previously reported that the s
Italian offshore contractor Saipem has hired V.Ships Offshore to provide ship management services for sea trial, transit and hook up assistance of Total’s Kaombo Norte and Kaombo Sul FPSOs. The vessels are currently being converted by Saipem in the Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore. The Kaombo Norte i
Oilfield services provider TechnipFMC has been awarded a major integrated contract for the Coral South FLNG project offshore Mozambique. The contract has been awarded by CORAL FLNG SA to TechnipFMC, together with JGC Corporation and Samsung Heavy Industries, all partners in the TJS Consortium where
BW Offshore’s subsidiary, Sendje Berge Limited, has informed that all outstanding dayrates in respect of the hire of the FPSO Sendje Berge have now been paid by Sinopec’s subsidiary, Addax. The payment was made in accordance with the arbitration award from February 2017, where the tribunal declared
Italian oil company Eni has launched its Coral South floating LNG (FLNG) project offshore Mozambique. The President of the Republic of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi, the Minister of Mineral Resources Leticia Klemens, and Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi, participated on Thursday to the launch of the Coral South
Ghana authorities have issued a new banknote with a picture of a Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah. The FPSO is the first such unit provided and operated by Japanese MODEC to Ghana. The redesigned 5 Ghana cedi (GH¢5) note was issued by the Bank of Ghana as a co
Golar LNG, a company supplying an FLNG unit to be used for the development of Cameroon’s Kribi offshore fields, has said that September schedule for the start-up is tight but possible. The company will supply the FLNG Hilli Episeyo project, currently being converted in Keppel’s Singapore shipyard. A
Equatorial Guinea, expected to bring one of the continent’s first Floating LNG units in production, is now working to develop other offshore assets using the same technology. Namely, OneLNG, a company developing Fortuna FLNG project with Ophir Energy offshore Equatorial Guinea, on May 29, entered in
Marine, offshore supply, and logistics player Sinwa Limited has been awarded several new supply agreements for vessels involved in Shell’s Prelude FLNG Project. Sinwa said on Wednesday that the contracts, totaling approximately A$8 million ($6 million), were expected to begin in August 2017. The sco
Premier Oil has launched a video about the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for its operated Catcher offshore development in the UK sector of the North Sea. The Catcher, made up of several fields discovered between 2010 and 2013, is located 170 kilometers south-east of Aberdeen
Teekay, a marine energy transportation, storage and production company, has informed that the FPSO Pioneiro de Libra arrived in Brazilian territorial waters on May 17. The FPSO, owned by the 50/50 joint venture between Odebrecht Oil and Gas (OOG) and Teekay Offshore Partners, set sail to Brazil on M
Brazil’s state-owned oil giant Petrobras experienced a drop in domestic oil output during April due to scheduled stoppages of two FPSO units in Campos Basin. The company’s total production of oil and natural gas in April was 2.72 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), of which 2.60 millio
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has started oil and natural gas production in the area of Lula Sul (South), at the Santos Basin pre-salt, through FPSO P-66. The FPSO unit left the shipyard and headed to its offshore location in February and, following arrival and hook up, production started on Wedne
