LSJOC, a company jointly owned by PetroVietnam and Petronas is set to terminate an FPSO contract with PTSC AP, a company owned by Malaysia’s Yinson, and Vietnam’s PTSC. According to Yinson, LSJOC is terminating the contract as the company will be liquidated on June 30, 2017. The vessel in question i
“A medium size” iceberg came within 180 meters of Husky Energy’s SeaRose FPSO offshore Canada last week. Husky told the authorities that the iceberg was approximately 40 meters wide, 60 meters long, and 8 meters high above water. It had been spotted and monitored by Husky, when it changed course and
Following reports last week that Petronas would be the first ever company to load out an LNG cargo from a floating LNG facility, this has now been confirmed by the company itself. In a statement on Monday, Petronas has confirmed that its first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, PFLNG SAT
FPSO operator BW Offshore has signed an extension agreement for the lease and operation of the FPSO Abo with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of Italy’s ENI S.p.A. After several temporary extensions, the extension with Agip is now until March 31, 2018, with options until 2023. The duo has
UK operator Dana Petroleum has detected a gas leak at its offshore unit in the North Sea. In a email sent to Offshore Energy Today on Friday, Dana said production was partially shut in on the Triton FPSO following identification of a gas leak on subsea gas lift infrastructure. According to BBC, the
Odebrecht Oil and Gas (OOG) and Teekay Offshore Partners held a departure ceremony in Singapore for the FPSO Pioneiro de Libra on Tuesday. The FPSO owned by the 50/50 joint venture between the two companies is heading to Brazil on a voyage expected to last around 65 days, ending in early June. Pione
After having been the first company in the world to build and deploy an FLNG unit to an offshore location Petronas is reportedly set to become the first to actually send away an LNG cargo from an FLNG unit. The floating production unit named Satu, has been deployed at the Kanowit field offshore Mala
Compressor supplier Tamrotor Marine Compressors (TMC) has delivered a marine compressed air system to BW Offshore’s Catcher FPSO being built in Singapore. TMC said on Thursday that it supplied a complete compressed air system consisting of three 185 kW instrument and service air compressors and two
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, has performed what it claims to be the world’s heaviest commercial lift using a land based mobile crane. The company made the achievement whilst executing an FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) integration project in
Scottish engineering firm EnerMech has scored a contract to work on Shell’s giant Prelude FLNG project. EnerMech has been awarded a pre-commissioning subcontract by Technip Oceania Pty Ltd, part of TechnipFMC in Australia, on the Shell Australia operated Prelude FLNG project. The work scope includes
Sevan Marine, a designer of a cylindrically shaped floating platforms, has agreed on a settlement with Piranema LLC for the payment of “ANP fines incurred to date.” ANP or Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis is the Brazilian federal government agency regulating the oil and ga
Brazil’s Petrobras saw its oil and natural gas production in February totaling 2.82 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), with 2.703 million boed produced in Brazil and 113,000 boed abroad. Average domestic oil output stood at 2.20 million barrels per day (bpd), 1% down on the January fi
Subsea services provider DOF Subsea has been awarded a contract for the mooring installation of an FPSO in the UK sector of the North Sea. In an Oslo Stock Exchange filing on Friday, DOF Subsea said it will deploy the 2011-built Skandi Skansen along with a number of anchor handlers from its fleet to
Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil and gas company, expects to take the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Fortuna FLNG project in Equatorial Guinea by mid-2017. The company is working on developing the gas reserves found in the Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea, through a floating LNG (FLNG)
