Dubai’s Drydocks World will construct parts of the turret mooring system for an FPSO to be deployed at Statoil’s Johan Castberg development in the Barents Sea. The shipyard has received the contract from the Dutch company SBM Offshore. The Johan Castberg FPSO will be permanently moored by the intern
Upgrade works on the Aoka Mizu FPSO, which will operate on the Hurricane-operated Lancaster field off the UK, are progressing as planned and the project remains on schedule for first oil in the first half of 2019.
A fire broke out this week aboard the partially scrapped ACES FPSO at a shipbreaking plot in Gadani Pakistan. This is according to the Shipbreaking Platform NGO, which on Thursday said that luckily no workers got caught in the flames of the fire that broke out aboard the Aces on Wednesday. However,
Four companies, Add Energy, Transborders Energy (TBE), TechnipFMC, MODEC have teamed up to create what they say is a unique and fast deployment business model for the FLNG industry
UAE’s Drydocks World has signed an agreement for two new projects with Bluewater Energy Services and end client Hurricane Energy. The ship repair and construction company said on Wednesday that the yard would undertake a repair, life extension, and upgrade project on floating production storage and
Bluewater-owned FPSO Aoka Mizu, which will operate on Hurricane Energy’s Lancaster field off the UK, has arrived at a shipyard in Dubai for upgrade work. The UK-based oil and gas company informed on Monday that the FPSO unit Aoka Mizu had arrived at Drydocks World Dubai shipyard on Saturday, Septemb
Greek oil company Energean Oil & Gas has appointed TechnipFMC as the contractor for Concept and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the Karish and Tanin development offshore Israel. This follows Energean’s recent decision to develop the offshore fields using a floating production, storage and of
Iran is reportedly in talks with a Norwegian company which would supply a Floating LNG facility, to be used for gas liquefaction in the Persian Gulf. According to Tasnim News Agency, which used the image of Shell’s Prelude FLNG unit to illustrate the story, Iran’s vice president for finance and inve
Iran and Belgium have reportedly initiated talks for a possible floating LNG production unit off the Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. According to a release found on the National Iranian Oil Company’s website, the issue was brought during Iranian Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh‘s talks with B
There will be significant growth in both investment and activity in the FLNG market over the next seven years, with Douglas-Westwood, an energy intelligence group, forecasting total expenditure of $58.3 billion in its new market report. DW added that 61% of this spend is attributed to liquefaction i
Drydocks World, a Dubai-based company has completed what it claims to be the world’s largest turret mooring system. The system will be installed aboard the world’s largest FLNG unit, Shell’s Prelude. At almost 100 meters high, weighing over 11,000 tons and with a diameter of 26 meters, the turret wi
DNV GL has unveiled a new FLNG concept called Solitude, for which the company promises it could boost safety and reduce costs, as it would be unmanned. According to DNV GL, the concept demonstrates how technological advances – most of the technology already within reach — can be combined into a solu
Designed in Monaco, built in Dubai, shipped to South Korea and for use off Australia, the turret is an example of the truly global nature of this project.
The FLNG market is poised for increased investment and activity from 2014 to 2020, with Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecasting total expenditure of $64.4 billion (bn) in its new market report. Two-thirds of this spend is attributed to liquefaction infrastructure, with the remainder from import and regasi
