Project & Tenders
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 07 – December 13). French oil services provider, Technip, has denied alleged merger talks with Houston-based FMC Technologies. Namely, last week, reports came out that Technip could be lookin
IOG secures another loan ahead of Skipper spud
IOG North Sea, an independent, London-listed oil and gas company, has secured an additional loan of up to £800,000 from London Group Limited. IOG, a company with a market cap of slightly above £5 million, plans to invest the cash in its gas assets in the Southern North Sea and also, the investment w
Nautilus and Tongling Ink New Deal for Solwara 1 Materials
Nautilus Minerals has signed a new agreement with Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group for the sale of the product extracted from the company’s Solwara 1 deposit located in the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea, with first delivery expected in the first half of 2018. On April 21, 2012, Nautilus and Tongl
Ezra shareholders say ‘Yes’ to Chiyoda deal
Singapore’s Ezra Holdings has received approval from shareholders for its proposed 50:50 subsea joint venture with Chiyoda. The proposed deal was announced in August this year. The new company, Emas Chiyoda Subsea will be jointly (50:50) controlled by the two partners. The transaction implies an agg
AGR and IOG Execute Skipper Well Management Contract
Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), AGR and Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) have agreed to execute the collaboration by signing a Well Management contract for delivering an appraisal well on Skipper field. Skipper is expected to have a spud date in late January or early Febru
PT.OSI Wins Indonesia Subsea Gig
PT.OSI (Offshore Services Indonesia) has been awarded a 3-year technical services contract from state oil & gas company Pertamina ONWJ for the provision of a DP II saturation DSV and associated services for subsea inspection, maintenance and repair. PT.OSI founder and managing director, Bob Estridge
Total brings Moho Phase 1b on stream (Congo)
French oil major Total has brought on stream the Moho Phase 1b project, located 75 kilometers off the coast of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo. The project is operated by Total and has a production capacity of 40,000 barrels oil equivalent per day (boe/d). “Moho Phase 1b is our ninth start
Wartsila tech ordered for 17 LNG newbuilds
Wärtsilä said it has been contracted by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea to supply combined inert gas generators and gas combustion units for 17 new LNG carriers currently under construction at the yard.
Woodside: Green light for $2B worth NWS project (Australia)
Australia’s Woodside, as operator of the North West Shelf (NWS) project, has approved the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) project off the north-west coast of Australia. According to Woodside, the GWF-2 project will develop 1.6 trillion cubic feet of raw gas (2P 100% project basis) from the com
TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink signs more First Nations agreements
TransCanada Corporation informed on Thursday its Coastal GasLink pipeline project signed long-term project agreements with the Burns Lake Indian Band, Blueberry River First Nations and Lheidli T’enneh First Nation.
Statoil acquires Eagle Ford interest from Repsol, makes further transactions
Norway’s Statoil informed it has acquired a 13 percent interest in the Eagle Ford joint venture from Repsol, becoming the sole operator of the shale gas assets.
Statoil to modify Kristin for Maria tie-in (Norway)
Statoil has received an approval from the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority to perform modifications necessary for a tie-in of the Kristin and Tyrihans fields with the Wintershall operated Maria field, in the Norwegian Sea. Kristin is the Statoil-operated gas condensate field at Haltenbanken (als
Hima in Ichthys LNG win
Brühl-based Hima informed it has been contracted by the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project to deliver safety instrumented systems (SIS) and the fire and gas system (F&G).
Lankhorst to Provide Mooring Ropes for Libra FPSO
Lankhorst Euronete Brasil (LEB), has been awarded a contract by OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG to supply the polyester mooring ropes for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the Libra oil field off Brasil. The Libra oil field is a large ultra-deepwater oil prospect located in the S