Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately $200 million from Petróleo Brasileiro S/A (Petrobras) on Campos Basin, 80km from the Brazilian coast. The contract scope includes the management, engineering, procurement and installation of two rigid oil lines of 4.5
Arrow Energy has awarded the tender for the concept design of the tunnel that will transport CSG from Gladstone to the Arrow LNG Plant on Curtis Island. The 6km tunnel will have a 4m internal diameter, and house high pressure gas pipeline and other utility services. The tunnel’s concept will be desi
Nautronix have been awarded an order worth around $4m from a well known American BOP supplier to supply their NASeBOP (Nautronix Emergency BOP Acoustic Control System) to be used on the four new ultra-deepwater drillships for Noble Corporation. This order comes just after their recent success in sec
GAC has signed a global hub contract with specialist transporter of liquefied natural gas, Angola LNG Supply Service (ALSS), to provide ship agency services to its vessels. The agreement was signed by ALSS’s General Manager William E. Haune, Jr. and GAC’s Group President, Capt. Lars Säfverström. Usi
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. announced that Mitsui E&P Texas LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui, and SM Energy Company have closed the previously announced agreement for MEPTX to acquire a 12.5% working interest in SME’s Eagle Ford property in Texas, USA. Mitsui has participated in shale oil/gas projects
International energy consultancy Xodus Group has secured more than $1 million of contracts in the Gulf of Mexico since it opened its office in Houston in February. The company’s recruitment drive continues and it has invested $2 million in a move to new larger premises in Richmond Avenue in the city
Taiwan’s CPC Corporation signed a long-term agreement with Qatar’s RasGas to purchase 1.5 million tonnes of LNG a year, CPC said in a statement. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 20th World Petroleum Congress held in Doha. LNG deliveries under the long-term deal will start in 2013. Qa
For working Brazil’s vast oil fields – bigger in size than the State of Florida – Brazilian-based underwater operator, Belov Engenharia, has switched to Saab Seaeye ROVs. It is the first purchase of Saab Seaeye vehicles by Belov, founded in 1981 and a key provider of services across civil, harbour a
Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent with an undisclosed client for a 3D seismic acquisition project offshore West Africa. The project, to be acquired by POLARCUS NADIA, will commence this month and is expected to run for approximately 30 days. About Polarcus Pol
Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd, a company jointly owned by INPEX and TOTAL and the seller of Ichthys LNG, today signed a legally binding Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with a consortium of five major Japanese utility companies for LNG from the Ichthys Project totaling 4.0 mtpa. Under the SPA, Ichthys LNG P
Blue Offshore, a specialist subsea construction contractor, have announced that they have reached agreement to use the former Swan Hunter shipyard facilities at Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), for assembly and construction of their cable installation system. Blue Offshore will operate the facili
Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent with TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (TGS) for the charter of the 12 – 14 streamer 3D seismic vessel POLARCUS AMANI. The charter, of minimum 5 months duration and subject to the execution of a service contract, will commence
Estonian Port of Tallinn and Elering signed cooperation agreement to begin preliminary studies for a LNG terminal at Muuga port. The companies aim to conduct environmental impact assessments and to develop a feasibility study for the regional LNG terminal, Port of Talinn said in a statement. Port of
Cathelco Seafresh announced today that it has received an order to supply reverse osmosis desalinators for the Khannur, an LNG carrier owned by Golar LNG of Norway which is being converted to a FSRU at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. After conversion, the vessel will be renamed the West Java FSRU
