A contract has been awarded to Kongsberg Maritime Ltd to conduct underwater noise studies for an offshore renewables project that could eventually lead to 400MW being installed in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth. The contract, awarded by MeyGen Limited, will involve Kongsberg Maritime Ltd cond
Fortune Oil said it has signed an agreement with Tianjin Gas to establish a joint venture that will be responsible for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the city of Tianjin, China’s sixth most populous city. The joint venture company will manage, on a non-exclusive basis, the procurement,
In April 2011, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) signed two shipbuilding contracts with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for the delivery of two Ramform vessels in 2013, with the option for one or two additional vessels to be delivered in 2015. The parties have now agreed to extend the exercise perio
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces the signing of a further contract to supply wellhead equipment for appraisal activity to an operating subsidiary of Bowleven pl
JFE Steel Corporation, in cooperation with Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., is awarded an order for approximately 150,000 tons of DNV-grade-450 UOE line pipe for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Wheatstone is one of Australia’s largest resource projects and involves the const
JFE Steel Corporation, in cooperation with Marubeni-Itochu Steel, said it has been awarded an order for approximately 150,000 tons of DNV-grade-450 UOE line pipe for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Wheatstone is one of Australia’s largest resource projects and involves
CGGVeritas announced that, after negotiations with Total Exploration & Production Angola and Sonangol, it has been awarded a five-year contract for the 4D seismic processing and imaging of annual and biennial monitor surveys planned to take place offshore Angola. Over 6,000 km2 of seismic data from
IKM Ocean Design has been awarded a pipeline front-end engineering and design contract from Statoil for the Aasta Hansteen deep-water field off Norway. The Norwegian contractor will carry out FEED design work, with an option for detailed engineering, on pipelines and cables to be installed at the ha
STX OSV Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announces that it has secured new contracts for the design and construction of two Offshore Subsea Construction Vessels for Siem Offshore in Norway. The vessels will be of STX OSV’s OSCV
DNV has signed an MOU with Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), South Korea’s state-run gas corporation, to cooperate on research and development in the LNG sector. While this is DNV’s second MOU with KOGAS, following the first in 2010 to cooperate on EHSQ issues, DNV is the first international risk manag
Chart Ferox, fully owned European subsidiary of Chart Industries, has received a contract to design, build, and deliver an LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) fuel system for a fast ferry which will be built by Incat, Australia. The boat will be the first catamaran powered by 27,000 HP gas turbines fuelled by
The North West Shelf LNG sellers and Kyushu Electric Power agreed a six year contract extension under the existing agreement signed in February 2007. The contract extension results in the sale of over 5 million tonnes and will see the North West Shelf Project supply LNG to Kyushu Electric under this
Statoil has awarded Framo Engineering a contact for the design and construction of the Gullfaks subsea gas compression plant. Gullfaks may become one of the first installations worldwide to employ subsea gas compression. ”Subsea gas compression represents an important leap forward in the efforts to
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) services contract by the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (ADGAS) for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase of their Flaring & Emission Reduction project at their Liq
