A new crewboat has been delivered to a US operator while a Dutch firm places a rebuilt anchor handler in service. A UK builder launches a catamaran crewboat ordered by a repeat customer. Orders include those for six crewboats, a daughtercraft, and a floating gas processing unit. Workboat enters service with Netherlands’ Emar Offshore Services […]
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The Genting Group, via subsidiaries Genting Oil and Gas and Layar Nusantara Gas, have awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) to China’s Wison New Energies for a new floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility with an output of 1.2 million tonnes...
Chinese shipyard CIMC Raffles has completed conversion work on a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for Malaysian shipowner MISC. The vessel, which has been renamed FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias, will operate in Brazil’s offshore waters under charter with state-owned oil company Petrobras. CIMC Raffles said this is the first FPSO conversion project […]
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Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras has awarded Singapore-based shipbuilder Seatrium a contract for the construction of two new floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs). The FPSOs, which will be named P-84 and P-85, will be deployed in the Atapu and Sépia fields, located in...
The keel of a new floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) has been laid at the facilities of Chinese shipbuilder Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC). The FPSO will be named Errea Wittu. Following delivery, it will be deployed by ExxonMobil Guyana approximately 200 kilometres...
The floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Liza Unity operated by Netherlands-based SBM Offshore has been awarded the first REMOTE-CON notation for an FPSO from ABS. The notation demonstrates the vessel’s alignment with remote-control functions and signifies that the design and...
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) recently took delivery of a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) built by subsidiary Qingdao CNOOC Offshore Engineering. Named Haikui No 1 (海葵一号; “Anemone No 1”), the FPSO has a prominent a cylindrical design that has been developed to withstand super typhoon conditions and to ensure a service […]
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Every day, the world uses around one hundred million barrels of oil. The term “big oil” is used pejoratively to describe the industry’s lobbying power. But is big always better? This week, we look at both the biggest and the best, and the biggest and the worst of the oil industry. Big finds:...
Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), through a 100 per cent-owned subsidiary, has entered into a long-term time charter party (TCP) agreement with Polish gas transmission system operator Gaz-System for the operation of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) off the Port of...
Lady Gaga famously sang that she was “on the edge of glory”. This week, we look at four companies on the edge of….well, something. Let’s check in on two construction companies, a subsea mining venture, and our favourite wind turbine installer. McDermott on the edge Finally, a judge in the UK has...