Adapting to current cost conscious market conditions was the recurring theme of the Aker companies'* open day for investors last week (17 March). Edvard Grieg at Stord yard. Photo from Kvaerner. It鈥
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) launched two pre-qualification contracts for the construction of the 105km offshore pipeline section under the Adriatic Sea. The contracts are for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI)鈥
McDermott International has won two contacts for EPCI work, one for Qatar Petroleum in the North Field Alpha gas development, and a second from Saudi Aramco for the Marjan field, offshore Saudi Arabia. The North Field Alpha project calls for a new jacket鈥
Getting engineering back to basics isn鈥檛 just about standardization anymore. Industry executives at the annual GE Oil & Gas summit in Florence advocated for simplicity in order to keep costs low and get projects done right. Elaine Maslin reports鈥
Chevron awarded INTECSEA a contract to provide engineering and long-lead procurement services for the front-end engineering & design (FEED) phase of the Buckskin/Moccasin development in the Gulf of Mexico. Map provided by Chevron鈥
Saipem awarded Schneider Electric a contract to design, fabricate and pre-commission two E-House modules, fully-integrated technical buildings, to support the Total E&P Angola-operated deep offshore Kaombo FPSO project. Located 260km offshore Luanda in water depths ranging from 1400-1950 m鈥
Statoil and Wood Group Mustang Norway (WGMN) completed the hook-up of the Valemon platform in the North Sea. Valemon. From Statoil. WGMN teamed with the Korean engineering, procurement鈥
Statoil and its Johan Sverdrup partners awarded Aibel a US$1 billion contract for the engineering, procurement and construction for the deck of the drilling platform on the Johan Sverdrup field. Johan Sverdrup field鈥
Alan Thorpe recently paid a visit to Singapore鈥檚 shipyards. He gives a rundown of some of the current floating production and storage unit conversions underway in Singapore and in Malaysia. The鈥
A new oilfield consultancy has been launched by GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International to 鈥渢ransform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fields.鈥 Io oil & gas consulting, deliberately spelled without capital letters by the firms鈥
Singapore鈥檚 Jurong Shipyard awarded Ezra Holding subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), a contract to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field鈥檚 extended well test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large鈥
AVEVA opened a new office in Saudi Arabia to strengthen its presence in the Middle East and further enhance its growing global network. The office will offer sales and support for all of AVEVA鈥檚 solutions and services, with particular focus on owner operators (OOs) and engineering鈥
Van Oord took delivery of Damen鈥檚 offshore carrier (DOC) 8500 cable laying vessel, the Nexus. The Nexus. From Damen. The Nexus is a 126-m vessel that will be used for the installation鈥
Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd. secured two contracts worth a total of approximately US$48.7 million. The first contract was awarded by Dubai-based Seaways International Pte Ltd. to build a multi-task anchor handling tug (AHT) vessel suitable for an array of offshore activities鈥
EXMAR is ordering its second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit from China鈥檚 Wison 云顶赌场老虎机 & Marine. Wison's yard. From Wison. Wison will be responsible for the turnkey engineering鈥
