BG Group has signed an agreement with technology provider AGR Enhanced Drilling for Riserless Mud Recovery services (RMR®) and the firm’s Cuttings Transport System (CTS®). These solutions will be used on a multi-well drilling campaign on the Knarr Field, located in the Norwegian North Sea. Enhanced
Aker Solutions has won a contract worth up to USD 440 million (approximately NOK 2.7 billion) to deliver the subsea production system for an oil field development in the UK North Sea. The delivery includes 25 subsea trees and six template manifolds. It also encompasses associated controls, wellheads
Coastline Surveys has been awarded a substantial contract at Seawork this week to carry out berth seabed and cable burial surveys for a European wave energy test site. The company has invited Innovatum to provide its new Cougar XT ROV fully equipped with a magnetic cable tracking system to assist on
Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change earlier this week sent a letter to OGN Group complimenting the company for successfully completing the construction of the Forties Alpha Satellite Platform. Davey said in the letter: “I would like to congratulate you on the successful ex
Contracts for building the first LNG-fuelled ferry for domestic Danish trade have now been signed. This represents a major milestone as the ship will be the first LNG-fuelled ferry designed for domestic trade in the EU. 1 October 2014 is the date set for the ferry’s first journey between the island
Ongoing experience of MacGregor’s offshore cranes has played a significant role in BOURBON ordering another 150-tonne active heave-compensated subsea MacGregor crane. MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order for a 150-tonne active heave-compensated (AHC) subsea crane from leading offshore oil &
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded an oil and gas contract worth $20 million for providing power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by the Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum. The contra
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) announces that it has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD 100 million by one of the world’s largest oil companies. It is expected that 3D electromagnetic (EM) data acquisition will start in early September 2013, following mobilisation of the vessel
The Republic of Cyprus, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding in respect of the Cyprus Liquefied Natural Gas Project with Noble Energy International Ltd , Delek Drilling Limited Partnership and Avner Oil Exploration Limited Partnership, that were granted in 2008 a Production Sharing Contract fo
In April TGE Marine Gas Engineering signed a contract with Dalian Inteh Group for the design and supply of the gas handling system as well as cargo tank material package for a 28,000 cbm LNG-carrier which came into effect in mid-June. The ship will be built at COSCO Dalian Shipyard and is scheduled
Talisman Energy Norge AS, the operator of PL 299 (Frode), in the Norwegian sector of the North sea, is about to complete drilling operations on the Frode prospect. No hydrocarbons were encountered and the well will be plugged and abandoned. The operator, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, is using t
Technip was awarded by Statoil ASA an important lump sum contract for pipelay and subsea installations for the Snøhvit CO2 Solution project. The Snøhvit field is located approximately 140 kilometers north-west of Hammerfest in Norway, in the Arctic Circle, and has been in operation since 2007, follo
A working meeting among Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Donald James Umpleby III, President of Caterpillar Group took place at St. Petersburg as part of the International Economic Forum 2013. The parties stres
South Stream Transport has initiated two tenders, one for the supply of line pipe and another one for the construction of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline through the Black Sea. South Stream Transport identified those pipe manufacturers which are able to produce pipes according to the specific Pro
