OceanPact, a renowned Brazilian company specialized in environmental solutions, submarine services and logistical support, achieved another victory by winning a bidding process and signing a contract with Petrobras. The agreement, valued at around R$485 million, was sealed to carry out anchoring inspections in FPSOs (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) and semi-submersible platforms from Petrobras, covering activities until... Continue Reading →
deugro Completes Heavy Lift Move for FPSO Project in China
deugro reports that it has delivered a 15.8 x 13.2 x 17.2-m, 392-metric ton CO2 removal system from Rizhao to the COSCO Shipyard Qidong, China. (OE) The journey began in Rizhao, China and concluded at the COSCO Shipyard Qidong, spanning a domestic inland road journey of 10km and a barge journey of two days. After the... Continue Reading →
NNPC teams up with Wison for floating LNG project in Nigeria
Wison (Nantong) Heavy Industry, an affiliate of Wison Offshore & Marine (WOM), has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the development of a floating LNG project in Nigeria, targeting the international LNG market. Wison and NNPC signed the MoU at COP28 in Dubai on December 6, 2023.... Continue Reading →
Brazilian delegation visits Yinson’s FPSO undergoing conversion works in Dubai
Yinson Production, a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur-based energy infrastructure and technology company Yinson Holdings, has hosted dignitaries from Brazil, who came to visit a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, destined to work at Enauta’s field off the coast of Brazil. At the start of December 2023, several dignitaries – Rui Costa, Chief of Staff at... Continue Reading →
More work for Weatherford with Petrobras
(OET) U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford International has secured a multi-year contract to deliver drill pipe riser (DPR) intervention services to Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras. Weatherford announced it had been awarded a five-year contract with Petrobras in Brazil, after a competitive tender, to provide DPR ultra-deepwater offshore intervention systems and services. The new seven-system... Continue Reading →
Yinson invests in carbon capture technology firm to curb emissions from FPSO ops
(OET) Yinson Production, an offshore production business arm of Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings, has made a move to slash its carbon footprint by making a strategic investment in Ionada, in recognition of the potential the firm’s carbon capture technology holds as a tool to decarbonize FPSO operations and lead to emissions reduction in the hard-to-abate industries.... Continue Reading →
Prysmian wins €100 million contract with Petrobras
(OET) Italian cabling giant Prysmian has secured a contract worth over €100 million with Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for the provision of umbilicals and steel tube. Under the contract, Prysmian will deliver 170 kilometers of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and the related specialized offshore and logistic services. The deep-water steel tube and thermoplastic umbilicals... Continue Reading →
China’s Envision Energy Says ‘Easy’ to Triple Renewables
(Reuters) Chinese wind turbine maker Envision Energy believes "it's easy" to meet an international pledge made at the COP28 climate summit to triple renewables by 2030. "This is not visionary," Envision CEO Lei Zhang told Reuters on the sidelines of the summit in Dubai. "If you look at the wind and solar growth rate in... Continue Reading →
Vineyard Wind to Feed First Power Into Massachusetts Grid by Year-End
(OW) Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have installed the first five GE Haliade-X turbines at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project and are preparing to deliver first power from their wind farm to the electric grid in Massachusetts, the US. Once energized in the coming weeks, Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Locar to Integrate Kongsberg Digital’s Vessel Insight
Kongsberg Digital has partnered with Locar, a Brazilian offshore vessel operator, to enhance its digital infrastructure and optimize DP operations. Locar will integrate Vessel Insight, Kongsberg Digital’s vessel-to-cloud infrastructure to derive valuable data insights from their vessels. This implementation aims to provide Locar with a new level of transparency and optimize fleet performance. The initial... Continue Reading →