MHI Compressor do Brasil Ltda. (MCO-B) held an opening ceremony on September 21 in Piracicaba, in São Paulo state, Brazil, to mark the launch of full-scale operations. MCO-B is a Brazilian joint venture (JV) established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (MCO), a Hiroshima-based G
A Malaysian news website has issued a report claiming that that FPSO provider Bumi Armada is still in talks with the UK oil company EnQuest regarding a $65 million refund and liquidation damages claim by EnQuest due to a delay in delivery of the Armada Kraken FPSO. The Malaysian company, however, ha
Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil and gas company, is making progress with its floating LNG project in Equatorial Guinea where it is working on developing the gas reserves found in the offshore Block R. The company on Thursday said the upstream part of the Fortuna FLNG project was ‘technically ready
Earlier this week, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell started production from the Stones development, the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas project, located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The host facility for the Stones field is the Turritella floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit owned
Fjords Processing has completed and delivered a sulfate removal unit (SRU) and seawater injection treatment package which will be used on the Petrobras P-75 FPSO in Brazil. The company said on Thursday that the unit was built for offshore contractor QGI Brasil, who is running the FPSO topsides const
Automation specialist Emerson has secured work on world’s largest offshore facility ever built, the Prelude FLNG facility, operated by Shell. Shell has selected Emerson to provide automation maintenance and reliability services for the company’s floating LNG facility, currently under construction in
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, is testing what it says it the world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350, ahead of the real work on an FPSO integration. The testing is being conducted in Brazil, where the crane has been rigged for the first time and
Japanese floating production vessel provider MODEC, Inc. has secured a contract extension for the operation of an FPSO unit in Brazil. Royal Dutch Shell plc has extended its contract with MODEC for operations & maintenance of the FPSO Fluminense with effect from August 2016 to December 2020. The FPS
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine is set to deliver a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel to Malaysian shipowner Bumi Armada. The naming ceremony of the FPSO, Armada Kraken, was held at Keppel Shipyard on Saturday, August 27, 2016. Armada Kraken is a harsh-environment FPSO un
Bluewater Shipping, a provider of floating production storage and offloading units for the international offshore oil and gas industry, reported a raise in net profit of the first half of 2016. The company’s profit after tax was $43.6 million, up from $1.2 million for the corresponding period of 201
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed its involvement in the decommissioning operations of the OSX-1 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, offshore Brazil. The company said on Wednesday that it was responsible for the disconnection of the submerged turret production system
Swedish independent oil company Lundin Petroleum has canceled a deal to sell the Bertam floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to a Malaysian company. Lundin said in January that it had entered into an agreement to sell the FPSO Bertam to M3nergy Investment Ltd (M3nergy), a wholly
Mechanical engineering specialist EnerMech is in the process of delivering a contract worth over £5 million ($6.6M) supporting the turret delivery team on BP’s Glen Lyon floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel left Aibel’s yard in Haugesund, Norway in June, towed by Sols
Shell has awarded DOF Subsea a five-year contract with 2x two-year options to provide a full-time underwater services and multi-purpose supply vessel (MPSV) to the Prelude floating LNG vessel. Prelude FLNG, the largest floating facility ever built, will produce, liquefy, store and transfer LNG at se
