Bestobell Valves, part of the President Engineering Group, said it has received a new contract for cryogenic cargo globe valves from the Hudong Zhonghua shipyard in China. The multimillion dollar contract will see the U.K.-based company manufacturing valves for six 174K LNG Carriers. The LNGC have b
Air Products AS in Kristiansand, Norway received its largest order of PRISM® nitrogen systems for shipboard applications in the last 30 years. The order involves retrofitting 25 LNG vessels by replacing a competitive nitrogen system with a new one that incorporates Air Products’ proprietary PRISM® m
Faroe Petroleum has announced a successful Drill Stem Test on the 6406/12-3S Pil exploration well (Faroe 25%), drilled 33 kilometres from the Njord production facility (Faroe 7.5%) in the Norwegian Sea. Highlights: – The well flowed at a stable rate of 6,710 bopd of 37° API oil from a 56/64″ choke p
GE Oil & Gas announced the first major equipment delivery by its Subsea Systems business, for a major operator, under a contract established by its Angolan joint venture (JV), GE-GLS Oil & Gas Angola Limited. A primarily localized workforce assembled the first of 16 subsea production trees, destined
Jan De Nul Group awarded Tree C Technology B.V. a contract for the development and delivery of a Fall Pipe Vessel Simulator for its headquarters in Capellen in Luxembourg. The simulator will be used for personnel training of the Jan De Nul Group’s fall pipe vessel Joseph Plateau and its sister vesse
Aker Solutions won a contract worth more than USD 300 million from Petrobras to supply eight manifolds that alternately inject water and gas to increase oil recovery from Brazil’s deepwater offshore fields. The subsea manifolds, designed for water depths of 2,500 meters, will be installed by Petrobr
Cheniere Energy’s unit Corpus Christi Liquefaction has entered into an LNG sale and purchase agreement with Endesa under which the Spanish company has agreed to purchase approximately 0.75 million tonnes per annum of LNG. The SPA is in addition to the previously signed SPA under which Endesa will pu
Dragon Oil plc, an international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, has published a quarterly update on the drilling activity in the Cheleken Contract Area and its exploration assets in the first quarter of 2014. In the Cheleken Contract Area, the Dzheitune (Lam) B/155A sid
Norwegian Energy Company ASA has announced that the drilling of exploration well 6608/10-16 on the Verdande prospect in license PL484 in the Norwegian Sea has started.
Atkins has been awarded an additional contract by DONG Energy. Atkins is now contracted to design five offshore substations for DONG Energy. The contract will see Atkins provide detailed substation designs for Race Bank, one of DONG Energy’s major offshore wind development projects in the UK. Atkins
AGR has been assigned by Premier Oil to deliver a range of services within the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The contract period is for five years plus additional three years. The scope of the agreement covers Well Management and Well Planning Services for exploration drilling and field develop
Lundin Norway AS will use the Island Innovator for drilling and production testing on the Gohta field. Lundin Norway AS has received the consent of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the Island Innovator mobile drilling rig for drilling and production testing of wildcat well 7120/1-4
UTEC Survey (Australia) said that it has been awarded a pipelay support survey and positioning contract in Australia. The contract was awarded to UTEC by Saipem and involves the provision of offshore survey and positioning services during the pre-lay, lay and post-lay installation of a 42-inch-diame
MultiClient Geophysical ASA (MCG) will conduct a Super High-Resolution multi-client 2D (MC2D) seismic survey in the Hoop area, Barents Sea. The survey will provide oil companies with critical, detailed information for the prospect evaluations of the shallow Jurassic and Triassic prospects. The Super
