On Thursday morning, Det norske oljeselskap was informed about a hydrocarbon leak in the pump room aboard the Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, located in the North Sea offshore Norway. Det norske oljeselskap is the operator of the Alvheim field with 65% working intere
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, has found several irregularities and improvement points during an audit of Teekay Petrojarl, a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) operator in the North Sea. PSA’s audit, conducted aboard the Knarr FPSO, focused on overal
Panoro Energy has announced that the commissioning of the Front Puffin FPSO, on the Aje field offshore Nigeria, has now been completed, and the FPSO is on hire following the 72 hour test. The FPSO arrived in Nigeria in March and first oil production from the Aje field started on May 3, 2016. The fie
Samsung Heavy Industries, one of South Korea’s largest shipbuilders, is reportedly on the verge of winning a large deal to build a floating LNG facility. As a matter of fact, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, the shipyard has ‘virtually secured’ a $2.5 billion order for the FLNG unit, r
Offshore Energy Today reported earlier this week that Petrobras brought the SBM Offshore-owned FPSO Cidade de Saquarema online by connecting it to the first production well on the Lula field, located in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. SBM Offshore, a Dutch provider of floating production storage a
AusGroup, through its subsidiary MAS Australasia, has been hired by Technip for work the Shell-operated Prelude FLNG. Under the deal MAS will deliver scaffolding and provide rope access activities required for the hook-up and commissioning scope of work, supporting pre-investment activities in Austr
Brazil’s state-owned oil giant Petrobras has started operations on the Lula field, located in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, by connecting the first production well to the FPSO Cidade de Saquarema. The production well was connected on Friday, July 8, and the output was stabilized to around 30 mil
SapuraKencana Petroleum and Petrofac Energy Developments have reached a mutual agreement with Petronas for the cessation of the Berantai Risk Service Contract (RSC), for the Berantai field, offshore Malaysia. The Berantai RSC was signed on 31 January 2011 with Petronas and was the first RSC awarded
A fire outbreak incident struck a construction site of Shell’s Prelude – the world’s largest floating LNG facility, being built in South Korea. In a statement to Offshore Energy Today, a Shell spokesman said: “Shell can confirm there was an incident on the Prelude construction site last week that le
BW Offshore, a provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry, has received a contract extension for one of its FPSO vessels. The FPSO provider said on Friday that oil company CNR International has exercised the option to extend the fixed term of the lease contract for FPSO Esp
National Oilwell Varco and GE Oil & Gas announced on Thursday the execution of an agreement to collaborate on delivering integrated solutions for Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels. The agreement brings together the complementary product offerings and engineering capabilities
Ezra Holdings and Emas Offshore Production Services (Vietnam) have entered into an agreement for the sale of a combined equity share of 80% in PV Keez to PetroFirst. PV Keez is a single purpose company incorporated in Singapore and owns the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Lewe
Oil services company Aibel in Singapore has been awarded the E&P contract for modifications on Woodside Energy’s Ngujima-Yin floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, offshore Western Australia. The FPSO is part of Woodside’s Greater Enfield Project which was recently approved for deve
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has carried out an audit of BP Norge’s OHAS management on the Skarv floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, offshore Norway. PSA said on Friday that the audit on the Skarv FPSO was conducted from April 12 to Apr
