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The subsea export cable for the South Fork wind farm offshore New York has now been installed, according to an update Eversource Energy posted on social media. The installation work, carried out by the Belgian company DEME using its dual-fuel cable laying vessel Living Stone, started in February with seabed preparation which included relocating boulders from the cable... Continue Reading →
U.S. offshore engineering and construction services firm McDermott has secured a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Shell for a gas development project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Under the contract, McDermott will provide comprehensive FEED services for a wellhead platform, export pipeline system, shore approach, midstream pipeline and onshore control room for the Manatee gas... Continue Reading →
New awards in the floating production storage and offloading vessel market could reach up to 50 by the end of this decade, according to a new report by Rystad Energy. From 2023 to 2030, the Oslo-based market intelligence firm forecasted 48 FPSO deals for new greenfield developments, 19 of which are earmarked for Brazil and... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 09/23/22, informs that it has signed a contract with the company Toyo Setal Empreendimentos Ltda. to conclude the works on the Natural Gas Processing Unit (UPGN) of the Itaboraí Gaslub Cluster, which had been halted since June 2022. With the resumption of the... Continue Reading →
(OM) Voyis has sold its first subsea inspection equipment for use offshore Brazil to DOF Brazil. DOF has acquired the company’s Insight Micro laser scanners and still cameras. According to Voyis, the optical sensor will allow the company to develop 3D models of subsea facilities in real time to reduce risk and provide an accurate record... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas company Karoon said Wednesday that production had started from the PAT-2 at the Patola field in the BM-S-40 production license in Brazil. The well, one of two new production wells drilled at the field, came onstream on March 15, 2023 at a rate of 12,000 – 14,000 bopd. This followed the installation... Continue Reading →
Offshore installation company Ocean Installer has won a contract with Equinor for the installation of dynamic inter-array cables on Hywind Tampen in Norway. Hywind Tampen is the world’s largest floating wind farm and will be used to partially power Equinor's oil and gas platforms in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The wind farm is expected... Continue Reading →
Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro and Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras have completed what they said is the first-ever remote subsea inspection survey off the coast of Brazil. Fugro used a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) deployed from the Fugro Aquarius to conduct the survey. Office-based personnel piloted the ROV from an operations center in Aberdeen, Scotland, instead of from the... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has reported an order intake of over $7 billion for the full year of 2022, representing the highest order intake since 2013, with a backlog of over $9 billion, said to have resulted in high revenue visibility for 2024 and beyond. In 2022, Subsea 7 reported revenue of $5.1 billion, which is a... Continue Reading →
OneSubsea, a company of the SLB group (formerly Schlumberger), made a triple announcement: the signing of new equipment supply contracts for Petrobras, Enauta and PRIO (formerly PetroRio). In the agreement with Petrobras, OneSubsea will deliver 16 wet Christmas trees (ANMs) for the Buzios 10 project, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. OneSubsea also entered into two-phase... Continue Reading →
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