Fugro has provided remote positioning services onboard a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for Bluewater during subsea inspection, repair and maintenance campaign in the North Sea. The week-long operation included accurate remote configuration of the positioning systems onboar
NKT has been awarded a turnkey project from Lundin Norway for the 132 kV high-voltage power cable connecting the Edvard Grieg oil and gas production platform to the Johan Sverdrup field center in the North Sea. The power cable solution will finalize the Utsira High Power Hub Project to power several
McDermott International has been awarded a contract, valued between $1 million and $50 million, by Qatar Petroleum to carry out front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the North Field Expansion (NFE) project. The FEED work includes offshore wellhead platforms, pipelines and cables associated wit
Global Energy Group’s North Fabrication division has completed and handed over the Schiehallion central production manifold M1P to BP. The 130Te manifold was delivered safely and to the required project quality requirements, the company noted. OSS awarded Global Energy’s North Fabrication division t
MacArtney continues to supply defence specialists Raytheon with winch solutions. The deal will see MacArtney deliver the next autonomous winch systems for the deployment of synthetic aperture sonar. The custom-built unmanned winch systems are designed to military specification using aluminium alloy
Sif Holding has secured an order to manufacture 114 monopiles for three out of four zones of Hollandse Kust Zuid project for Vattenfall/Nuon, in the Netherlands. Sif’s scope comprises manufacturing of the monopiles and storage at the MV2 facility in Rotterdam in 2020-2021. The Hollandse Kust Zuid pr
Fugro and partner Amplified Geochemical Imaging (AGI), have sold multiple licences for data from frontier regions offshore east coast Canada. The data were acquired during two separate hydrocarbon seep surveys in the Orphan Basin (2017) and Carson Basin (2018), both situated on the continental margi
Heerema Marine Contractor’s newest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir is set to begin its maiden voyage this week. Sleipnir, the world’s largest and strongest SSCV named after Odin’s eight-legged stallion, was built by Jurong Shipyard, the fully owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine in Sing
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) and the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on matters of operational safety, training standards, and the mutual recognition of diver qualifications. The two trade asso
McDermott has been awarded a contract in excess of $1.5 billion for Package 4 of Saudi Aramco’s Marjan Increment Development Project to provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of offshore gas facilities and pipelines. Marjan Package 4 represents the second largest EPCI
McDermott has been awarded a contract in excess of $3 billion for Package 1 of Saudi Aramco’s Marjan Increment Development Mega-Project to provide EPCI of the Gas-Oil Separation Plant (GOSP), in a consortium with China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC). McDermott will lead the consortium with
The commissioning inspection of the buildings at the Balticconnector project’s Inkoo compressor station has established that the buildings were ready for use. The buildings were inspected by Inkoo municipality’s building inspector and Länsi-Uusimaa Rescue Department’s inspector. “The completion of t
JFD has completed mating trials of its latest portable hyperbaric reception facility (PHRF) for TechnipFMC. The completion of the trials, conducted with two of TechnipFMC’s vessels, provides divers with the assurance that every possible measure has been put into place to ensure their safety should t
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved Lundin Norway for sample extraction from the Rolvsnes discovery at the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea. The Rolvsnes oil discovery is located on the southern side of the Edvard Grieg field and is a fractured and weathered granite baseme
