Burntisland Fabrications Ltd (BiFab) has announced that it has been successful in securing a contract for the £1.4 billion Cygnus Project which will develop the sixth largest gas field in the UK Southern North Sea. The Scottish fabrication company is one of a number of UK companies to benefit from i
In just a few weeks, a remarkable new Fugro trenching system will start its first offshore deployment, working for Centrica on the 270MW, 75-turbine Lincs offshore wind farm. Fugro-Salt Subsea of Aberdeen has already run a series of successful jetting and cutting trials with the first of its state o
Artemis Atlantic concluded the acquisition of seismic data in Nordland IV and V on Tuesday 7 August. On Monday, the vessel acquired seismic data in areas 3 and 4. Before the acquisition ends, two lines will be acquired on the boundary between areas 2 and 3. The acquisition of seismic data in the are
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and production company, whose shares are listed in London (AIM) and Dublin (IEX), provided a technical update on Licensing Option 11/9 in advance of the upcoming Third Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference. A new third pa
ARKeX, the provider of non-seismic geophysical imaging services, has recently completed an airborne Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) survey offshore Greenland for ION Geophysical. The 50,000 sq km multi-client survey is the largest single offshore FTG survey ever carried out. The survey takes i
GDF SUEZ as operator with partners Centrica and Bayerngas have announced sanctioning of the £1.4 billion ($2.18 billion) Cygnus project to develop the sixth largest gas field in the UK Southern North Sea. GDF SUEZ (38.75%) will operate the field with partners Centrica (48.75%) and Bayerngas (12.5%).
Wood Group Kenny’s subsea and pipeline business J P Kenny has recently been awarded a $7.5 million contract by Apache North Sea Limited to provide subsea engineering services. The contract runs initially for 3 years with further options beyond this timescale. The agreement covers all of Apache’s Nor
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a detailed design contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development, the UK North Sea’s largest gas discovery in the last 25 years. The detail design contract follows on from the FEED work and is value
Pharos Offshore Group has completed cable repair and burial for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm on a section of damaged subsea export cable. Pharos delivered a work package with the rapid mobilisation of engineering, fabrication and operational teams to locate, recover, re-lay and re-bury the po
Technip was awarded a five-year inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) frame agreement contract by ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited for various assets in the Central, Southern North Sea and East Irish Sea. The contract covers diver repair and maintenance solutions for the company’s existing U.K. subs
Recently the Stemat Spirit completed work laying and burying the third export cable at London Array Offshore Wind Farm. This is the third of four export cables which run from the onshore substation at Cleve Hill to the two offshore substations at the wind farm site. The cables carry the power genera
KD Marine, specialists in commercial diving for the offshore oil and gas industry, has completed a subsea engineering contract for work on the Sevan Hummingbird Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea. KD Marine was awarded the seven-figure contract by energy servic
Leading international oilfield service company Expro announces today that it has secured four significant subsea completion landing string contracts in its Europe CIS region for work in 2012, 2013 and beyond. More than $25million worth of new subsea business has been secured in Norway with various k
As the famous saying goes “success breeds success” so it is no surprise that leading engineering, materials technology and composite processing firm Gurit have taken the proactive approach in 2012 to showcase their excellence as it relates to tidal energy. Recent increase in support for Wave & Tidal
