Project & Tenders
Amec Foster Wheeler awarded Ichthys LNG consultancy job
Amec Foster Wheeler informed on Monday it has been awarded a consultancy job by Inpex, for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.
Bad weather hampers Transocean rig load (UK)
Transocean Winner, a drilling rig that recently went aground in Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK, has yet to be shipped away to Turkey. Namely, Offshore Energy Today on Friday reported that the rig was getting ready to be loaded aboard the Hawk semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, however, this has not ha
ALE’s massive crane begins work on P-74 FPSO
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, has performed its inaugural lifts on the P-74 FPSO project in Brazil with what the company says is the world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350. To remind, the crane was load-tested in preparation for its first lifts
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (September 26-October 2, 2016). Wasa Dredging Makes Progress on Klintehamn Harbor Scheme The Klintehamn Harbor dredging scheme, being conducted by Wasa Dredging, is progressing according to schedule. French Pres
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 26 – October 02). Technip Offshore Finland is reportedly sending home its entire workforce employed at construction yard in Pori. According to Finish media, layoffs for 288 yard workers shou
SHEP Continues to Gain Momentum
Nearly two decades in the making, the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) continues to gain momentum with more contracts awarded and new ground broken. In addition to progress made on the Raw Water Storage Impoundment and Dissolved Oxygen Injection System, work advanced this month on the dike r
Ofgem Reveals OFTO Tender Round 5 Start Date
UK’s energy market regulator Ofgem will start the fifth tender round (TR5) for offshore transmission owners (OFTOs) where companies will bid to become owners of five transmission links to offshore wind farms on 10 October 2016. The five links have an estimated value of GBP 2 billion in total and a g
Krasnoye Sormovo Ready to Launch Hopper Dredger Kadosh
Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard is about to launch the third 1000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Kadosh, being built for the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Rosmorport”. According to the shipbuilder, the TSHD Kadosh launching ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5th 2016. First two ships of t
Premier Oil pulling out of Bagpuss JV
Premier Oil, a UK-based oil and gas company, has decided to resign as the operator of the Bagpuss joint venture, operating the Licence p.1943 in the UK North Sea. The news was revealed on Friday, by one of the partners, North Sea Energy Inc. which said that Premier was resigning from the operator po
SapuraKencana Clinches $215 Mln Worth of Contracts
SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad (SapuraKencana) has been awarded new contracts with a combined value of approximately USD 215 million. The first contract awarded to a consortium of SapuraKencana TL Offshore and SapuraKencana HL by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is for the B127 cluster pipelin
Gazprom receives survey permit for TurkStream project
Work on the construction of the TurkStream gas pipeline project intensifies as Russian energy firm Gazprom has received another permit from Turkish authorities. To remind, after Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with Bloomberg at the beginning of September that the Turkish Stre
Ocean County Beach Replenishment Project Out for Bid
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers beach and dune construction project that will protect homes, businesses and infrastructure in coastal northern Ocean County – one of the areas hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy – has gone out to bid. The project will cover some 14 miles of coastline along the Barnegat
SHI bags order for LNG duo
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries on Friday informed it has won an order to build two liquefied natural gas carriers for an unnamed European shipowner. 010140
Carnegie Inks MoU to Expand to Sri Lanka
Carnegie Wave Energy is expanding its commercial wave and microgrid projects into Sri Lanka through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lanka Energy Conservation. The agreement focusses on identifying the opportunities and development pathways for commercial wave energy plant