Fabricom, a GDF Suez Energy Services company with a significant presence in Aberdeen, has been awarded a contract by Marathon Oil Norge for provision of maintenance and modification services for the company's Alvheim floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO).
Oil supermajor Shell said yesterday a deal taking its stake in the BP-operated Schiehallion field to 55% would give it access to extra reserves in its North Sea heartland.
BP has said it is to sell a stake in a Norwegian Sea field to Shell in a cash deal valued at £149million.
US engineering contractor KBR has been awarded a FEED contract by an unnamed client to perform work for the topsides and hull associated with a new-build, double-sided, single-bottom hull floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO) destined for offshore Angola.
SBM Offshore has received a letter of interim award from Shell for the supply, lease, and operation of a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Fram field in the UK sector of the North Sea ... blocks 29/3c, 298a (P012), 29/9c, and 29/4c (P1664).
Marubeni, Mitsui and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) are to invest in a long-term charter business operated by Modec to provide a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO) for operation offshore Brazil in the Cernambi Sul presalt area of the Santos Basin.
EXXONMOBIL has decided to abandon its deepwater Xikomba field on block 15 offshore Angola, as it is no longer economically viable following seven years of production.
WEATHERFORD'S pipeline and speciality services group has been awarded a contract by Saipem for pre-commissioning services on the Urugua-Mexilhao pipeline in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The company says the 18in, 174km long gas pipeline will link the floating production, storage and offloading vessel, Cidade de Santos - located on block BS-500 on the Urugua field in 1,372m water depth - to the existing Mexilhao gas platform.
SEVAN Marine of Norway has signed a technology licence agreement with Eni Norge for the Sevan 1000 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) which will be used for exploitation of the Goliat field in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. It will be renamed Sevan Goliat.
Prosafe Production's innovative hybrid Azurite floating, drilling, production, storage and offloading vessel (FDPSO) is on its maiden voyage en route from the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore to its first contract - working offshore the Republic of Congo.