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
Keppel FELS Brasil’s BrasFELS shipyard has handed over the Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29 FPSO to MODEC. The floating production storage and offloading unit left the shipyard recently for the Bananal Bay in Brazil. It will subsequently be deployed in the Petrobras-run Tartaruga Verde and Tarta
Hilli Episeyo, soon to be operational as Cameroon’s first FLNG unit, has become a part of the first commercial Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker transfer in Singapore. Namel, FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd (Shell), has achieved the milestone by completi
Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil and gas company, expects to make the final investment decision (FID) on its Fortuna FLNG project in Equatorial Guinea in the fourth quarter of 2017. Ophir said on Thursday in its half-year report that ‘significant’ steps were made in the first half of 2017 towards t
Malaysia’s Bumi Armada has informed that its Armada Kraken FPSO, operating on the Kraken field in the UK North Sea has completed the offloading of its first cargo on September 12, 2017. The Kraken is a large heavy oil accumulation in the UK North Sea, located in the East Shetland basin, to the west
Offshore rig builder Sembcorp Marine has secured hull carry over works from Tupi B.V. for the FPSO P-68 Tupi project in Brazil. Sembcorp Marine said on Monday that the contract was secured through its Brazilian subsidiary, Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), and it was worth worth about $145 million. Tu
Classification society DNV GL has awarded class to BP’s Glen Lyon floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel located west of Shetland. DNV GL’s Maritime and Oil & Gas business areas have been working closely together, to provide BP with a broad range of technical skills required for th
Dutch provider of offshore support vessels, Vroon, has entered into a five-year charter plus options with Premier Oil for one of its emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRV). Vroon said on Wednesday that the vessel in question was the VOS Famous. The company added that the vessel would attend Pr
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has announced a second “major contract” for Eni’s Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The company said on Wednesday that the contract was awarded in 2Q this year by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation, the lead partner in a consortium t
Norwegian oil services company Aibel has been chosen to prepare Teekay’s Petrojarl I FPSO for redeployment offshore Brazil. Aibel said via social media on Monday that, during the next month, the company’s Haugesund yard will prepare the FPSO for its upcoming duties at the Atlanta field offshore Braz
BW Offshore-owned FPSO BW Catcher has left Keppel Shipyard in Singapore and is currently in transit to the Premier Oil-operated Catcher field in the UK sector of the North Sea. The FPSO was built by Keppel Shipyard where a naming ceremony was held in April. Before it headed to its final offshore loc
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has completed its position keeping role for the Ichthys Venturer FPSO, which is now fully moored in Australian waters. The operator of the project, Inpex, announced on August 14 that the Ichthys Venturer FPSO had arrived in Australian wate
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) was moored on Thursday in the Ichthys field, 220 kilometres off the north coast of Western Australia. The massive 336-meter-long FPSO, named Ichthys Venturer, reached Australian waters in mid-August,
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, has found several improvement points during an audit of Teekay Petrojarl Production and its maintenance management of the Petrojarl Knarr FPSO. The Knarr field, operated by Shell, is in the northern sector of the North Sea, around 50 ki
