Project & Tenders
Picture of the Day: TSHD ILEMBE Floats
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) new 5500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ILEMBE was named at an official ceremony at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 9 May 2015. The state-of-the-art dredger contract has been built within the budget and three months ahead of s
Technip Nets Thunder Horse Gig
Technip has secured a contract with BP E&P for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. At a water depth of approximately 1,900 meters, the current field d
OIS to Decommission North Sea Subsea Wells
Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract to decommission multiple wells in the North Sea by Centrica Energy. The initial campaign includes six subsea wells in the central North Sea, in categories 2.1 and 2.2, which will be abandoned using a diverless, vess
Moventas’ Gearboxes for Alstom’s Tidal Turbines
Moventas has been chosen as the sole gearbox development partner for Alstom to equip the raz Blanchard pilot tidal farm in Northern France. Moventas’ gearbox technology expertise will soon be harnessed in tidal energy for the first time. Alstom has been chosen to supply for a pilot tidal energy farm
Flexlife Nets $6 Mln in Contracts
Flexlife has won a number of contracts this year to date valued at over USD 6 million for oil and gas operators in the US Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea and Malaysia. According to Flexlife, the contracts are separate from the recently announced award from Apache North Sea Limited for subsea project m
GE, Enpro Subsea in Fluid Well Intervention Pact
GE Oil & Gas and Enpro Subsea announced an agreement to jointly market and provide fluid intervention services that offer oil and gas operators a cost-effective way to improve production rates in producing wells. The volume of hydrocarbons extracted from offshore fields with subsea wells is typicall
Fairfield sets out to decommission Dunlin Alpha platform
Fairfield Energy’s subsidiaries Fairfield Betula Limited and Fairfield Fagus Limited and their joint venture partner, MCX Dunlin Limited (MCX), are planning to start a Decommissioning Programme for the Dunlin field cluster in the northern North Sea. The start of the programme is subject to the neces
Fugro Saltire on Gran Canaria Shipwreck Job
Otech has chartered the vessel Fugro Saltire to continue its operation offshore Gran Canaria. The Norwegian company has been contracted by Maritime Rescue to locate and inspect the shipwreck of “Oleg Naydenov”, which sank on April 14 south of Gran Canaria. On April 20, Otech team was mobilized on th
Saipem cleared to work on Gazprom’s Black Sea pipeline
Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has said that South Stream Transport has lifted suspension of activities in the Black Sea. Saipem had contracts for pipe laying of the controversial South Stream pipeline contract in the Black Sea, which was supposed to carry Russian gas through the sea and
Saipem Cleared for Black Sea Pipeline Work
Saipem is to resume its pipeline construction operations in the Black Sea after receiving a go-ahead notice from South Stream Transport B.V. The notification comes just a few day after Gazprom, now a 100% owner of South Stream Transport, announced further development on Turkish Stream project, setti
Subsea 7 Lands USD 300 Mln Maria Gig
Subsea 7 has been awarded of a contract with a value of approximately USD 300 million for the Maria field development by Wintershall Norge AS. The pipeline and subsea construction contract consists of engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of 95 kilometres of rigid flowlines
Bids Invited for Koper Dredging
The Port of Koper, Slovenia, has released a tender for the second phase of dredging works in order to deepen the navigable channel and basin in the northern section of the harbor. The tender also includes supply and installation of rubber fenders. Last year, Dutch dredging contractor Van Oord succes
Turkish Stream to start gas supplies in December 2016
Ankara yesterday hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom and Taner Yildiz, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey. Alexey Miller and Taner Yildiz addressed the issues of Russian gas supplies to Turkey, upgrade of the Blue Stream gas pipeline and execution
Gazprom: Turkish Stream Online in Dec 2016
Ankara has hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Taner Yildiz, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Turkish Republic. Alexey Miller and Taner Yildiz addressed the issues of Russian gas supplies to Turkey, upgrade of the Blue Strea