Project & Tenders

Bahamas Petroleum clears environmental hurdle for offshore well
London-listed oil company Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has received environmental authorization from the government of The Bahamas for the Perseverance #1 well, expected to be spud in April 2020

Eni’s Agogo field size increases to 1 billion barrels of oil
Eni has drilled the Agogo-3, the second appraisal well of Agogo discovery in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, increasing by about 40% the estimate of oil in place, which is now of 1 billion barrels with further upside to be tested in the Northern sector of the field.

Maersk Decom Gets Tullow Oil Contract
Maersk Decom has received a contract to provide complete plugging and abandonment of Tullow Oil’s Banda and Tiof fields offshore Mauritania. This is the first project where Maersk Decom will provide an end-to-end plugging and abandonment solution under one single contract, the company said. The solu

Porthos Taps MAN Energy Solutions for Dutch North Sea CCS Project
MAN Energy Solutions has been selected to take part in the Port of Rotterdam CO₂ Transport Hub & Offshore Storage (Porthos) project. The Port of Rotterdam, Gasunie and EBN are jointly preparing a new project in which CO₂ generated by industry in Rotterdam’s port area is captured and stored in empty

Shawcor Coating for Woodside Sangomar Offshore Project
Shawcor’s pipe coating division has entered into a contract, worth between CAD 30-50 million, with Subsea 7 to provide thermal insulation coating services for the Woodside Sangomar Offshore Project in Senegal. The work is scheduled to be executed from Shawcor’s Orkanger, Norway facility starting in

Keppel fixes up Yinson FPSO for operations offshore Nigeria
Keppel Offshore & Marine has said it has delivered the world’s fastest brownfield floating production storage and offloading vessel modification and upgrading project.

Fugro Joins Australia’s HydroScheme Industry Partnership Program
Fugro has been selected by the Australian Government to join the HydroScheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP) to increase Australia’s hydrographic industry capability. The panel of industry partners was chosen as part of a long-term strategy to ensure safe shipping routes, commercial ports and ma

IHC Delivers Cablelay Spread for Normand Clipper Upgrade
Royal IHC (IHC) has secured a contract from Global Marine Group for the design and delivery of an integrated power cablelay spread, to be installed on its newly chartered vessel, Normand Clipper. Global Marine Group decided to customize the vessel within the first quarter of this year, ahead of two

Venture Global inks 20-year SPA with EDF
U.S. LNG export project developer Venture Global LNG has signed a deal with Électricité de France (EDF) for the supply of LNG from the Plaquemines LNG export facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

MOL, DSME in FSRU digitalization pact
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines of Japan said on Wednesday that the duo had signed a strategic cooperation deal to develop technologies and solutions for the digitalization of LNG FSRU. Through this collaboration, new “innovative solutions” will

Woodside and BHP align Scarborough interests
Australian energy giants Woodside and BHP have agreed to align their participating interests in the Scarborough project located offshore Australia.

Serco, Briggs to Bid for Royal Navy Marine Services Contract
Serco, the international services company, and Briggs Marine, the experts in coastal, near shore, offshore and subsea operations, have teamed to bid for the Royal Navy’s Marine Services 2022 contract. Serco and Briggs Marine have a long-standing relationship, having worked together since 2007 to sup

Heerema’s Aegir vessel installs Qatargas platform
Heerema’s Aegir vessel has completed the installation of a jacket and topside for Qatargas’ North Field Bravo living quarters expansion project.

Plexus Strikes Another Wellhead Equipment Deal With Gusar
Plexus said that its Russian licensee Gusar has placed an order for an additional set of POS-GRIP exploration rental jack-up drilling wellhead equipment. The deal follows the installation of the first POS-GRIP rental gas exploration wellhead in Russia for Gazprom. Plexus’ CEO Ben Van Bilderbeek said