Project & Tenders
Liverpool2 Project Celebrates Major Milestone
Construction at the new $500 million container terminal being built at the Port of Liverpool has reached an advanced stage. Work to reclaim 12 hectares of land has passed the first stage with further infilling due to take place over the summer. The majority of 296 steel piles have been driven into t
Mubadala: Nong Yao field produces first oil (Thailand)
Mubadala Petroleum announces that production at its Nong Yao oil field, located in the southern Gulf of Thailand, started on Wednesday, June 17. Production is expected to reach a peak rate of approximately 10,000 bopd as more production wells are completed. Oil from Nong Yao will be sold for local u
Panama Canal Expansion – June 2015 (VIDEO)
A new video has just been released on the Panama Canal Expansion Program, the largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction. The Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, increasing the waterway’s c
Eni: Goliat FPSO preparations in full swing
Eni Norge has reported that final preparation of the Goliat platform, the circular floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, is well under way in the Barents Sea. With more than 600 people now working offshore at the Goliat field, activity levels are high in order to prepare for pr
MMT Wins Caithness – Moray Pre-Lay & UXO Survey Gig
MMT has been contracted by ABB to perform a pre-lay and UXO survey for a cable laying project between Caithness and Moray in northern Scotland. ABB will provide the Caithness-Moray high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission link, which will connect the electricity grid on either side of t
Dredging, Reclamation Part of KPC New Terminal
Following a new agreement with the Government of Malaysia and Kuantan Port Authority for a 30‐year port concession, the Kuantan Port Consortium (KPC) will develop, operate and manage the Kuantan Port, which covers the existing port and a new deep water terminal (NDWT). According to the agreement sig
Premier to spud Bagpuss well in first half of 2016
Joint venture partners in the Bagpuss Prospect are working towards a spud date for the Bagpuss well, located in block 13/24c of the UK North Sea, in H1 2016. The JV partners in the Bagpuss Prospect are Premier Oil (operator) with 37.5% interest, Maersk with 25%, EnCounter Oil plc with 15%, Groliffe
Blyth Workcats to Build ABP Survey Vessel
Blyth Workcats has won a contract from the Associated British Ports (ABP) to build a new 14-metre survey vessel at the company’s yard on Canvey Island, Essex, UK. The new boat will be based on one of Blyth Workcats’ survey craft models but tailored to meet the specific requirements of ABP’s hydrogra
Romica’s Equipment for DSV Newbuild
Romica Engineering Ltd (REL) has signed a contract with Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) to provide a triple drum winch and tooling deployment A-Frame system. The equipment will support the overboard deployment and recovery of diver tools supporting subsea work. It will be be fitted on the c
InfraStrata advances with prospectivity evaluation of licence offshore Dorset
InfraStrata plc, an independent petroleum exploration and gas storage company, has made progress with reprocessing of two 3D seismic surveys in the Petroleum Licence P1918, offshore Dorset. The Pre-stack Depth Migration reprocessing of two offshore 3D seismic surveys was done in relation to the nort
Statoil Aberdeen Awards UK Firms GPB 1 Bln in Contracts
Contracts awarded by Statoil Aberdeen to the UK supply chain have now surpassed a value of GBP 1 billion, including all the major contracts for the operational phase on the Mariner field. The Statoil-operated Mariner field is located on the East Shetland Platform of the UK North Sea, approximately 1
Picture of the Day: CSD Zheng He Dredging the Suez
Jan De Nul Group, expert in dredging and marine construction activities, has just released a photo of its cutter suction dredger (CSD) Zheng He working in the New Suez Canal, Egypt. According to Jan De Nul, CSD Zheng He is the record-holder in dredging volume. She dredged 20 million m³ since the sta
Report: Kashagan could resume output in 2017
Giant Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea offshore Kazakhstan should resume production by 2017. First oil from the giant development started flowing in September 2013, however it was stopped after detection of an offshore gas leak. After several studies into the causes of the leak The North Caspia
Low oil price hits $200 billion in mega-projects
Deepwater oil projects and complex gas facilities worth around $200 billion have been cancelled or put on hold worldwide in recent months due to the sharp drop in oil prices over the past year, consultancy Ernst and Young said on Tuesday.