Contracting major Subsea 7 has been awarded a subsea, umbilical, riser, and flowline (SURF) contract valued at some $800million by Total for the development of the gasfield Martin Linge (formerly Hild) located 180km west of Bergen in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, block 30/7.
Petrobras has issued a letter of intent to Modec and the Schahin Group for the supply, charter, and operation of a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Lula-Iracema area of block BM-S-11 offshore Brazil.
Statoil has awarded a front-end engineering design contract for a 20,000 tonne substructure for the part of the UK North Sea Bressay development to SNC-Lavalin.
With front-end engineering and design (FEED) just started or about to get under way, Statoil is mulling Aberdeen as the centre to run itsMariner/Bressay heavy oil projects in the UK North Sea.
