PARIS — BP Exploration and Production has awarded Technip a lumpsum contract for the Isabela project in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract covers project management, engineering, fabrication, and installation of pipe-in-pipe flowlines, steel catenary risers, and subsea equipment. The project is a subsea tie-back to the semisubmersible platform Na Kika in water depths of approximately [...]
MELBOURNE – The Santos-led joint venture has awarded engineering and construction company Subsea 7 an $80 million contract to install a subsea pipeline for the Casino-Henry gas field development in the Otway basin off western Victoria. The work includes installation of a 22-km pipeline that will connect the subsea production tress at the Henry-2 and nearby [...]
Oceaneering International is expanding in Hanover, Md., to accommodate its growing advanced technologies division. The Houston-based provider of engineered services to the oil and gas, defense and aerospace industries inked a 46,688 square-foot lease expansion at 6090 Dorsey Road — a building close to its advanced technologies headquarters at 7001 Dorsey Road. The term of the [...]
DONG E&P Norge AS has awarded Technip an engineering, procurement, construction and installation lump sum contract, worth in excess of €45 million, for the Oselvar field development. The field is located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, 250km offshore Norway, at a water depth of 72m.
CARLYSS, La. – Global Industries announced today that its Brazil Business Unit has signed a contract with Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for diving, ROV and construction services to be performed offshore Brazil, in the areas of Campos, Santos and Espirito Santo basins. The 180-day contract is valued at approximately US$ 70 million and has an option for [...]
UNITED KINGDOM — A commercial diver working on the new Pembroke power station was airlifted to Derriford Hospital, in Plymouth, on Saturday after he became unconscious while under water. Milford Haven coastguard received a call from ambulance control at 10.19am saying that the diver was unwell and had briefly become unconscious.
LONDON — Acergy S.A. announced the award of the Block 17/18 GEP Phase 2 Project, a contract valued at approximately $110 million from Total E&P Angola and BP Angola (Block 18) B.V. for the installation of over 70km of 24” pipeline from Block 2, together with the associated jumper, PLET and tie-ins, to the Nearshore / Onshore pipeline in [...]
MILAN — An Italian judge has put back a decision on a request by Milan prosecutors to bar Italian energy group Eni and its subsidiary Saipem SpA from conducting business with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), an Eni lawyer said on Tuesday. The expected ruling is part of a probe by Milan prosecutors into bribery [...]
A Singaporean diver’s body has been found floating near an oil rig, which he was working on, at the Jurong West Anchorage in Tuas, Singapore. Gerald Chia’s body was found by the Maritime & Port of Authority of Singapore and the Police Coast Guard on Sunday evening, 54 hours after he went missing, reported local [...]
ROSYTH, SCOTLAND — MSP John Park has called for the Scottish Government to help workers facing redundancy at Rosyth’s Oceaneering Multiflex. The Labour economy and skills spokesman would like to see a scheme in Wales aiding employees on short-time work being introduced in Scotland.
By Dana Baker, Mooresville Tribune MOORESVILLE, NC — A dredging company lost an excavator when it toppled off a barge into Lake Norman two weeks ago. No one was injured and so far no fuel has leaked into the water. But until the 60,000-pound track hoe — submerged in 88 feet of water — is hauled up and [...]
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