Hurricane Energy, a UK-based oil and gas company, has signed heads of terms with Bluewater Energy Services for the use of the Aoka Mizu floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) on the company’s Lancaster field, West of Shetland. Hurricane informed on Monday it intends to use the Aoka
Norwegian FPSO supplier BW Offshore has been informed by Statoil and Petronas that the contracts for two FPSO units will not be extended and will run out next year. On top of this, the company has initiated arbitration against a client who is not paying an FPSO lease. All this was revealed by BW Off
Malaysia’s FPSO provider Bumi Armada has shared a photo of the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit meant for the Kraken field development beginning its journey from Singapore to its North Sea location. The caption is convenient: “Release the Kraken!” According to Bumi Armada, th
Mozambique’s state-owned energy firm Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) has given its approval for the financing of the development of the Coral south FLNG project. The approval comes less than a week after Italian oil and gas firm Eni, which is the operator of the Coral offshore gas discover
The video above, shared by the UK oil giant BP, shows the giant Glen Lyon FPSO from the bird’s-eye perspective. Replacing the original Schiehallion FPSO, the 270-meter Glen Lyon FPSO, moored in the North Sea west of the Shetland Islands, is getting ready for a start of production from the Quad204 of
Following last week’s approval of the financing of the Coral FLNG development by Eni’s board of directors, the company’s CEO paid a visit to Mozambique. According to Eni, CEO Claudio Descalzi met the president of Mozambique Filipe Jacinto Nyusi in Maputo. During the meeting, Descalzi outlined the pr
EnQuest, a UK-based E&P company, has informed that the FPSO unit meant for the Kraken field development will sail away from Singapore to its North Sea location ‘in the coming days’. The harsh-environment floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Armada Kraken, named in August 2016,
The board of directors of the Italian oil and gas company Eni has approved the investment plan for the Coral South FLNG project offshore Mozambique. The decision follows the approval of the Plan of Development for the Coral discovery, offshore Mozambique, given in February this year. The plan of dev
Petronas’ first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility PFLNG SATU achieved its first gas milestone on November 14, 2016, at the Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia. The introduction of gas from the KAKG-A central processing platform at the field ignited the PFLNG SATU flare tower at
A joint venture company has been established to develop the Fortuna FLNG project, in Ophir-operated Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea, with final investment decision (FID) targeted for the first half of 2017. Ophir Holdings & Ventures LTD, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ophir Energy, and OneLNGSM, a
Dutch provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units to the offshore oil and gas industry, SBM Offshore, has been selected by EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) to provide floating wind systems solution for a pilot project offshore France. As a part of the French government’s turn
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil is pushing forward with repair works on the Jubilee field FPSO, offshore Ghana. Tullow, the operator of the Jubilee field, said in an update on Wednesday that the Jubilee field FPSO turret remediation project is progressing as planned and that the interim spread-moorin
Oil and gas company EnQuest has reported that the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Kraken development has left Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore heading to deepwater anchorage. According to an update from EnQuest on Monday, the vessel, named Armada Kr
Oil and gas company Mubadala Petroleum has reached an agreement with Petrofac for the modification and extension of contracts related to the FPF-003 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (Jasmine FPSO), located in the Gulf of Thailand. The Jasmine field is operated by Mubadala Petroleum
