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The most recent, major contract concerning rig new builds includes Diamond Offshore receiving their fourth ultra deepwater drillship order worth US$655 million from Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for construction of a new ultra-deepwater drillship with delivery scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Total cost, including commissioning, spares and project management, but excluding capitalised interest, is expected to be approximately US$655 million. The new drillship will be named Ocean BlackLion. Design specifications include dynamic-positioning, dual activity capability, a maximum hook-load capacity of 1,250 tons, and operating capability at water depths up to 3,658 metres, though initially outfitted for operation at 3,048 metres. The unit will also feature two seven-ram blowout preventer (BOP) stacks, with the second available for use as a spare.

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AGR has been awarded a well management contract from Cooper Energy Tunisia Bargou.The contract will see AGR perform the planning, execution and post-drilling activities for a one well program in the Gulf of Hammamet, offshore Tunisia.AGR is currently seeking a suitable jack-up rig to operate the well, and investigating the possibility of incorporating it into a larger drilling campaign in the Mediterranean Sea.

AGR wins well management contract offshore Tunisia

Fugro-Geoteam has been awarded a US$14.12 million contract for a 3D seismic survey in Pancontinental’s license area L6 in offshore Kenya.Covering an area of 680 sq kilometres, the L6 permit lies in the Lamu Basin, within the Tana River delta.The Fugro-Geoteam through 3D seismic survey is expected to provide high-definition images of subsurface structures. The Kifaru 3D seismic survey is expected to enhance the chance of success of the L6 drilling planned for the 2013 licence year.

Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. has signed a contract with Aveon Offshore Limited to provide marine transportation services for the Chevron OAGM (offshore assets gas management) project in Nigeria. The FJELL will transport two power barges from the Bonny River in Nigeria to the Escravos Area. The contract value is US$1.2 million and the total operation is expected to require about 12 days.

Fairstar Heavy Transport awarded US$1.2 million contract offshore Nigeria

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Fugro-Geoteam wins US$14.12 million seismic survey contract for offshore Kenya permit

CGGVeritas awarded Angola 4D seismic deal

CGGVeritas has been awarded a five year contract for the 4D seismic processing and imaging of annual and biennial monitor surveys planned to take place offshore Angola.

Over 6,000 sq kilometres of seismic data from five of Total’s deep offshore group of fields (Girassol/ Jasmim, Rosa, Dalia/Camelia, Pazflor and CLOV) in Block 17, which is operated by Total in partnership with Statoil, BP and Esso, are expected to be processed over the contract’s duration.

FMC Technologies has subcontracted Aveon Offshore to fabricate components for the subsea production system for Shell’s Bonga Northwest project offshore Nigeria. Aveon’s US$30 million plus contract involves structural steel procurement, fabrication, and load out of around 1,000 tons of subsea structures, including two four-slot production manifolds with associated suction piles, well jumpers, tubing head frames, christmas tree ROV panels, and control system elements. Grinaker-LTA Construction Nigeria will execute this program at its fabrication yard in Rumuolumeni, near Port Harcourt, generating more than 200,000 man hours of work. Load out and sail away of the manifolds for offshore installation is scheduled for March 2013.

Aveon to supply components for Bonga NW worth US$30 million

Total awards US$79 million subsea contract to Aker Solutions

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Total E&P Angola, to deliver seven new subsea tree systems to the Dalia field located offshore Angola. Contract value is approximately US$78.64 million.

Scope of work includes seven production subsea trees, seven wellhead systems and seven well jumper systems, and may include some contract options.

Management and engineering of the subsea tree systems will be performed at Aker Solutions’ manufacturing centre in Tranby, Norway. Procurement, manufacturing and assembly will take place in Port Klang, Malaysia, and Aberdeen, UK. Equipment deliveries will be made in 2013 and 2014.

Dalia Field – AngolaDalia discovered in 1997, 135 kilometres offshore in water depths of 1,500 metres. The launch of Dalia, which came onstream in late 2006, was a significant step in the development of block 17, where 15 earlier discoveries have been made. Total serves as the operator with 40% interest, with partners Esso (20%), BP (16.67%), Statoil (13.33%) and Norsk Hydro (10%) holding the remaining interest.



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Tideland Signal has won a further order to supply eight of its SB-2200 polyethylene buoys complete with MaxLED-200 lanterns to the new LNG port at Soyo in the north of Angola.

The new buoys will be used in marking the approach channel and are supplied complete with mooring chains and sinkers.

Tideland’s SB-2200 buoy features an asymmetric twin keel hull design that enables it to remain upright in fast currents, optimising the performance of the lantern beam for range and visibility. It is manufactured from rotationally moulded polyethylene with a solid core of expanded polystyrene foam, making it virtually unsinkable as the integral foam core prevents excessive water ingress in the event of a collision.

The Angola LNG Project is expected to produce 5.2 million tonnes of LNG per year, processing and treating up to 125 million cubic feet per day of gas for use in industrial projects. First LNG production is expected by early 2012 to be delivered into the U.S. natural gas market via the Clean Energy re-gasification terminal near Pascagoula, Mississippi which is under development by Gulf LNG Energy LLC.

Tideland wins Angola LNG contract

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SGS has been awarded a non destructive testing services contract by West African Ventures for Chevron’s Escravos Gas Project (EGP-3) in Nigeria.

The contract, which was signed in

SGS awarded Chevron’s Escravos Contract

Maersk Oil prepares to issue bid documents with tenders for floater increased in scope from original plans after drilling success.

Maersk Oil is set to issue bid documents in October 2012 covering all the elements of its super-sized Chissonga project in deepwater Block 16 off Angola, which will involve about 40 subsea wells tied back to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel.

Invitations to tender will be released for an FPSO which will be designed to handle 150,000 bpd (barrels per day) of oil, at least 50% bigger than the vessel Maersk was envisaging just one year ago.

Maersk Oil increases size of FPSO used in Chissonga field offshore Angola

February 2012, has SGS providing non destructive testing of welds using x-ray pipeline crawlers, ultrasonic testing, and magnetic particle testing services.


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Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited has entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for construction of a new ultra-deepwater drillship with delivery scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2014. Total cost, including commissioning, spares and project management, but excluding capitalised interest, is expected to be approximately US$655 million. The new drillship will be named Ocean BlackLion. Design specifications include dynamic-positioning, dual activity capability, a maximum hook-load capacity of 1,250 tons, and operating capability at water depths up to 3,657.6 metres, though initially outfitted for operation at 3,048 metres. The unit will also feature two seven-ram blowout preventer (BOP) stacks, with the second available for use as a spare.

Diamond Offshore receives fourth ultra deepwater drillship order worth US$655 million

Chevron deploys Pacific Santa Ana for Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling campaign

The deepwater drillship Pacific Santa Ana has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five year contract with a subsidiary of Pacific Drilling S.A.

Pacific Santa Ana is the first drillship designed with the capacity to perform DGD (dual gradient drilling).Unlike conventional deepwater drilling, which uses a single drilling fluid weight in the borehole, dual gradient drilling employs two weights of drilling fluid; one above the seabed, another below. This allows drillers to more closely match the pressures presented by nature and effectively eliminates water depth as a consideration in well design. DGD also allows drillers to more quickly detect and appropriately react to downhole pressure changes, which can enhance the safety and efficiency of deepwater drilling operations.

Pacific Santa Ana is equipped with a DGD riser, a mud lift pump handling system, six mud pumps; three for drilling fluid and three for seawater; extensive fluid management system enhancements and more than 21,945.6 metres of DGD related cables.

After additional equipment is installed and tested, Pacific Santa Ana will be used for exploratory and development drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Kencana Petroleum will build offshore topsides for Murphy Oil under a contract worth between US$149.8 million and US$154.3 million.

The Serendah production topsides facilities are for Murphy Oil’s SK309/311 SPSA development project, for blocks 309 and 311 offshore Bintulu, Sarawak.Kencana will provide engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services to the project, under a contract expected to be delivered in the first half of 2013.

Kencana wins US$154.3 million Murphy topsides contract

Fluor Corp awarded FEED contract for LNG terminal in Malaysia

Petronas Gas Bhd, a listed subsidiary of Petroliam Nasional Bhd has awarded a contract to Fluor Corp to provide FEED (front end engineering and design) services for a new LNG (liquefied natural gas) regasification terminal in Malaysia.The new terminal will supply gas to an adjacent 300 MW (megawatt) combined cycle power plant in Lahad Datu, Sabah.Fluor secured the contract in the first quarter of 2012. The formal signing of agreement was in Kuala Lumpur on April 2, 2012.

Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured a US$208 million contract to construct a Pacific Class 400 jack-up drilling rig for Perisai Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd, with an option to construct an additional unit of a similar specification jack-up rig for delivery in the second quarter of 2015.

The price for the option rig is US$210 million with adjustment to certain cost escalation. The Pacific Class 400 jack-up drilling rig is PPL Shipyard’s proprietary design. This design is well established and is an enhanced version of PPL Shipyard’s acclaimed and successful Pacific Class 375 design series, of which 27 units are now operating worldwide. The Pacific Class 400 rig represents the latest generation of high-specification jack-up rigs that are capable of operating in water depths of 121.92 metres and drilling to depths of 9,144 metres.

Sembcorp Marine’s PPL Shipyard secures a US$208 million contract

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Technip has been awarded by Offshore Oil Engineering Co, Ltd (COOEC) a pipeline installation contract for the Liwan 3-1 shallow water project, located in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, China Sea, at approximately 300 kilometres south of Hong Kong, China.

With a total length of 260 kilometres, the pipeline will link the Liwan gas platform to China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s (CNOOC) Gaolan gas plant. Technip’s scope covers the shallow water portion of the development project. It includes the installation of 160 kilometres of 76.2 centimetre export oil/gas two-phase pipeline from the Liwan gas platform to a water depth of approximately 70 metres.

Technip’s operating centre in Singapore, in liaison with the project engineering office in Shekou, China, will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012. The offshore installation will be carried out with the Global 1201, a flagship pipelay vessel that joined Technip’s fleet through the recent acquisition of Global Industries.

McDermott awarded Siakap North - Petai EPCI subsea contract in Malaysia

McDermott International, Inc has been awarded a significant subsea contract for executing a deepwater engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation and commissioning (EPCI) project offshore Malaysia. The award is for the subsea infrastructure of the Siakap North - Petai (SNP) Development Project operated by Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd., comprising rigid flowlines, flexible risers, an umbilical and subsea hardware and controls. The SNP field architecture consists of two rigid, insulated, pipe-in-pipe production flowlines, one rigid water injection flowline and one main umbilical system connecting eight new manifolds and subsea distribution units to existing riser slots on the Kikeh FPSO. The development calls for five water injection and eight production wells, drilled from the manifolds at each of the four drill centre locations. The project scope is scheduled to be completed by the third quarter of 2013.

Technip awarded pipeline installation contract in China

PTSC lands US$113 million Vietnam platform contract

Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC) has been awarded a detailed engineering, procurement, construction, installation, hook-up and commissioning contract in Vietnam.

The US$113 million contract was awarded to PTSC subsidiary, PTSC Mechanical & Construction, by the Lam Son Joint Operating Company, which is a joint venture between PetroVietnam and Petronas.The scope of the work includes the wellhead platforms and topsides for the Thang Long and Dong Do oilfields in Blocks 01/97 and 02/97.

It also includes a 15 kilometre infield pipeline, pipeline manifolds and pipeline end termination.Work on the project is scheduled to be completed by August 2013 and first oil from the developments is expected in October 2013.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for the delivery of a subsea production system for the Siakap North - Petai deepwater development.

The scope of work includes 13 subsea trees, eight manifolds, well jumpers, engineering for topside controls and lifecycle support services. The first hardware delivery is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.

The contract will be delivered out of Aker Solutions’ high-tech subsea manufacturing centre in Port Klang, Malaysia. Siakap North - Petai is located offshore Sabah, Malaysia, in a water depth of 1,400 metres. The subsea production system will be tied back to Murphy’s Kikeh floating production storage and offloading vessel.

Aker Solutions wins major subsea contract offshore Malaysia



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Wood Group Mustang has won the topsides detailed engineering and procurement support contract for the semi submersible CPF (central processing facility) to be built by Samsung Heavy Industries in Inpex’s Ichthys field development. This contract was awarded by Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor for the CPF.

It will be designed for a peak gas export rate of 1,657 million cubic feet per day as well as liquids transfer to an FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) vessel for condensate production of about 85,000 bpd (barrels per day). Detailed engineering was scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2013, with first production from the project expected by the end of 2016.

GE, CH2M HILL and UGL to provide power generation for Ichthys LNG project in Australia

UGL Limited in a 50/50 joint venture with CH2M HILL has been awarded a US$550 million contract by JKC Australia LNG Pty, for the construction of a Combined Cycle Power Plant for the Ichthys LNG (liquefied natural gas) project in the Northern Territory.

As part of the agreement, GE will engineer and supply gas turbines, steam turbines and heat recovery steam generators for the US$34 billion Ichthys project. The CH2M HILL-UGL joint venture will design and supply the balance of plant based around the GE technology as well as undertake the complete construction of the project.

Wood Group Mustang awarded topsides engineering for world’s largest semi submersible production facility

Inpex has awarded Technip a flexible pipe supply contract for its Ichthys gas field off northwest Australia. Under the contract Technip will supply three kilometres of smooth bore 25.4 centimetre gas export risers and three kilometres of 30.5 centimetre production risers. Technip expects to complete work on the contract during the first half of 2015.

Technip wins Ichthys flexible pipe contract

McDermott has awarded INTECSEA the design engineering for Ichthys offshore Western Australia

McDermott has awarded INTECSEA the design engineering for Ichthys offshore Western Australia. INTECSEA’s work includes project management and design engineering of the flowlines, riser systems, subsea structures, umbilicals, and control systems.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s subsidiary Yokogawa Australia Pty. Ltd. has been advised that it will receive orders to supply the control systems for the Ichthys LNG project, which is being developed in Australia.

In 2009, Yokogawa was selected by the Ichthys joint venture to be the main automation contractor (MAC) for this project. In this role Yokogawa commenced the master planning stage to carry out the control system FEED (front end engineering and design) work. With the conclusion of this phase, the Ichthys joint venture has now given Yokogawa the go-ahead to supply the control systems for the Ichthys LNG project.

Yokogawa expects to receive formal orders from the EPC (engineering procurement construction) contractors that are building the LNG plant, CPF (central processing facility), and FPSO (floating production storage and offtake) vessel. It is estimated that the total order will be the largest Yokogawa has ever received for a single project.

Yokogawa to receive control systems orders for Ichthys LNG project in Australia

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Air Products awarded technology selection for Ichthys LNG project in Australia

Air Products has signed an agreement with JKC JV (Joint Venture) and INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd, for the supply of the liquefaction technology and main cryogenic heat exchangers for two process trains that will produce a total of 8.4 million tons of LNG per year.

Air Products’ LNG heat exchanger technology will operate in Darwin, Australia as part of the Ichthys LNG Project, which is expected to be onstream by the end of 2016.

Under the agreement with JKC JV and INPEX, Air Products will provide two main cryogenic heat exchangers with a proprietary propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant process using the SplitMR® machinery configuration to produce the LNG. The LNG units will process natural gas from the substantial reserves located in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia. The project will provide crucial long term energy supply to Japan and other customers.

Leighton Contractors awarded US$93 million contract for Ichthys project onshore LNG temporary site facilities

Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a US$262.3 million dredging contract for the Ichthys project, offshore Australia’s far northwest.

Boskalis was awarded the work by Saipem, which is responsible for the pipelay of a new 106.7 centimetre deep sea natural gas pipeline for the liquefied natural gas project, including a portion to run through Darwin Harbour.

The company will dredge an 18 kilometre trench for the gas pipeline as well as carrying out a pipe-pull over a distance of about 3000 metres.

Boskalis will also use two large backhoe dredging vessels to put together a cofferdam and a winch platform at the waterline edge as part of its landfall construction. The company will also install a protective layer of rock sourced from a local quarry once the pipeline had been laid, placing the rock around it using side stone dumping vessels.

Work on the project will start in mid 2013 and finish by mid 2015, with SMIT Subsea and miscellaneous ancillary equipment to also being used during the course of the project.

Boskalis wins US$262.3 million Ichthys dredging contract

Laing O’Rourke to deliver US$260 million accommodation village for Ichthys LNG project

JKC Australia LNG Pty Ltd has awarded Laing O’Rourke a US$260 million contract to deliver the Ichthys project onshore LNG facilities accommodation village.

Early works design for the 3,500 bed Howard Springs Accommodation Village (HSAV) project were undertaken in late 2011. Work is scheduled to begin in late April 2012 with staged completions over two years. The final stage is due for completion in 2014.

The project will include accommodation units with individual en-suites, substantial kitchen and dining facilities that will cater for up to 3,500 workers, outdoor recreational facilities including a swimming pool, indoor sports complex, outdoor sports facilities and an onsite facilities management complex and medical centre.

Leighton Contractors has been awarded a US$93 million EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract by JKC Australia LNG Pty Ltd for the temporary site facilities works at Blaydin Point, Darwin, Northern Territory.

These works support the future planned Ichthys project onshore LNG facilities being delivered by JKC Australia LNG on behalf of the Ichthys Joint Venture.The engineer and procurement stage is well underway, with construction to commence in late 2012.

At peak production it is expected that Leighton Contractors will employ more than 80 workers, with an anticipated 50% of the workforce sourced locally from Darwin. The temporary site facilities works project is due for completion in March 2014.




Tender bid underway for two wellhead platforms in Bumi oil field

Clough AMEC awarded Eni Blacktip contract, Australia

The Clough AMEC joint venture has been awarded a contract to provide maintenance support to the 1.3 billion cubic metre per year onshore gas treatment plant and the offshore unmanned wellhead platform for Eni’s Blacktip project, supplying gas to Australia Northern Territory.

The scope of work involves providing support for routine and campaign maintenance along with specialist consultancy services, multidiscipline engineering, procurement, and management of subcontractors and fabrication. The initial contract is for three years with further extension options and will be supported out of Clough AMECs Darwin office, established in 2004.

Decmil awarded Wheatstone contract extension worth US$46 million

Decmil has won a contract extension worth US$46 million to build more rooms for the fly camp at Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia. The additional rooms will be added to the camp at the LNG plant location in Ashburton North near Onslow.

Bredero Shaw to provide coating solutions for Julimar Development project in a deal worth US$45 million

Bredero Shaw has been awarded a contract worth more than US$45 million to provide pipeline coatings and associated services and products for the Julimar Devel-opment project. The company signed the contract with Apache in Australia.

The project will provide raw gas from Brunello and Juli-mar gas fields to the Wheatstone Project, operated by Chevron, in Western Australia.

Based on the contract, Bredero Shaw will supply pipe coating solutions for 47 kilometres of 45.7 centimetre pipeline that will be protected with different configura-tions of three fold polypropylene anticorrosion coating, HeviCote concrete weight coating and Thermotite five layer polypropylene insulation.

Furthermore, Bredero Shaw has also signed a deal for anode acquirement and installation. The company will start the work in the second quarter of 2013. The work will be carried out at the facility of Bredero Shaw in Kuantan, Malaysia.

ExxonMobil contracts Transocean Deepwater Frontier for Gorgon drilling

ExxonMobil has contracted the Transocean Deepwater Frontier for work offshore Australia on the Jansz-Io drilling project at the Gorgon LNG project. The first phase of drilling consists of ten wells.

The rig underwent upgrades and inspection that included complete refurbishment and full recertification of the BOP and BOP controls. Other operational integrity and regulatory compliance work was done in areas including fire protection and power supply.

Drilling at Jansz-Io is expected to take around two years and will use ExxonMobil technology related to well design and the application of specialised techniques to allow enhanced production. The ten Jansz-Io wells will be drilled to a total measured depth of between 3,500 and 4,500 metres in water depths of 1,350 metres.

Hess has invited bids for the transportation and installation of two wellhead platforms required for its joint development Area Block A-18 gas project.

On offer is a contract for the supply of a derrick pipelay barge to install the Bulan B and Bumi B wellhead platforms and associated pipelines, scheduled for delivery to the field locations in April and September 2013, respectively.

Bids are due in early June 2012 for the month long installation campaigns expected to be completed by May and September 2013. The Bulan B tripod will be delivered from Cuel’s yard in Thailand.

The contract variation increases the total contract to US$116.3 million.Work on the contract started in December 2011 and expected to be completed by August 2012.

The original workscope included the design, supply and installation of a 502 room fly camp, along with central facilities buildings including kitchen/diner and offices, installation of all necessary utilities and a waste water treatment plant.




Monadelphous awarded a construction contract by BHP Billiton on Macedon gas project on Wheatstone Project in Australia

Thiess Pty Ltd secures US$438 million contract with Bechtel for work on Wheatstone Project in Australia

Thiess Pty Ltd has secured a contract with Bechtel to undertake site preparation works for the downstream portion of the Wheatstone Project, a LNG and domestic gas project in Western Australia.The total contract value is estimated at US$438 million.Thiess will undertake the bulk and final finish earthworks for the plant, storm water drainage system and access roads around the project.Work will begin onsite early in fourth quarter of 2012 with site preparation works scheduled for completion in early 2014.The contract is forecast to include 95% Australian content and is expected to create 400 Western Australian jobs.

Technip awarded US$322 million subsea installation contract for the Wheatstone Project in Australia

Chevron Australia has awarded Technip a US$322 million contract for subsea facilities for the Wheatstone project. This involves development of the Wheatstone and Lago fields in the Carnarvon basin offshore northwest Australia. Technip’s scope of work includes project management, design, fabrication, and installation of subsea isolation valve, production tee protection structures, spools and jumpers, transport and installation of manifold, foundation structures and pipeline termination structures, and supply and installation of 41 kilometres of umbilicals.

The company’s centre in Perth, Australia, will manage the overall project. Vessels to be deployed for the offshore campaign will include the Deep Orient and Global 1201, with completion scheduled in 2015.

QGC awards US$244.7 million contract to install gathering pipelines

QGC (Queensland Gas Company) Pty Limited has awarded a construction contract to Murphy Pipe and Civil Constructions Pty Ltd to install gas and water gathering pipelines throughout QGC’s gas fields in the Surat Basin, Australia.

The initial phase of the contract is about US$244.7 million.

Murphy Pipe and Civil will install high density polyethylene pipe to gather and transport gas and water from wells to processing facilities.

Tyco lands US$68.5 million QGC contract

QGC (Queensland Gas Company) Pty Limited has awarded a US$68.5 million pipe supply contract to Tyco Water, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tyco International.Tyco will supply carbon steel, concrete lined trunklines and pipe fittings to support water gathering in QGC’s gas fields in the Surat Basin of southern Queensland.Tyco is expected to employ an extra 100 people and has increased production from one to two shifts at its Wacol factory to accommodate the contract.The finished pipes and fittings are being carried to QGC’s gas fields by local transport companies.

BHP Billiton has awarded Monadelphous a construction contract on its Macedon gas project in Western Australia. The contract covers structural, mechanical and piping installation works associated with the construction of an onshore gas plant near Onslow.The domestic gas plant, which is being built by Technip, will have a design capacity of 200 million cubic feet per day and will be supplied by the Macedon field which lies in offshore Block WA-12-R in the Exmouth sub-basin.Work on the contract is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2013.

Woodside awards Aker Solutions GWF umbilical contract

Aker Solutions has been awarded an umbilical contract on Woodside Petroleum’s GWF (Greater Western Flank) Phase 1 project, off the northwest coast of Australia. The scope of work would include project management, design, engineering, manufacturing and verification testing of two steel tube umbilicals with a total length of 17 kilometres.The contract also included all associated ancillary equipment required for transportation to Australia and interface with the existing development.Aker will manufacture the umbilicals at its facility in Moss, Norway, with its office in Fornebu, Norway, supporting project management, design and engineering.The GWF Phase 1 project will develop the Goodwyn GH and Tidepole fields, via a subsea tie-back to the existing Goodwyn A platform. The GWF project consists of 14 fields to the south-west of the existing Goodwyn A platform and is estimated to hold about 3 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas and 100 million barrels of condensate.


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Foster Wheeler AG, a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an EPCm (engineering, procurement and construction management) services contract by Total Raffinage-Chimie for the revamp of a hydrodesulfurization unit at Total’s refinery in Antwerp, Belgium.

Foster Wheeler has received a full notice to proceed on this contract. The value of engineering and procurement services will be included in the company’s first quarter 2012 bookings. Construction management services are expected to be included in the company’s third quarter 2012 bookings upon agreement of the full scope of the services to be provided by Foster Wheeler.

The revamp of the hydrodesulfurization unit should enable the refinery to produce jet fuel with a sulfur content below 30 ppm (parts per million), and diesel with a sulfur content below ten ppm, in accordance with European Union requirements.

Foster Wheeler has already completed the FEED (front-end engineering design) for this revamp. The revamp is expected to be mechanically complete by the end of July 2013.

Foster Wheeler wins Total EPCm contract in Belgium

Bumi Armada to lay Caspian inter field pipelines


OOO LUKOIL Nizhnevolzhskneft has contracted Bumi Armada Caspian to install subsea oil and gas pipelines at the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.

These will connect the Vladimir Filanovsky and Yuri Korchagin fields. Each pipeline will be around 40 kilometres long, and be equipped with band anodes, three layer insulation based on extruded polypropylene, and solid concrete ballasting coating.Bumi Armada will also lay seven starting sections of the infield pipelines, each one kilometre long, at the riser block assembly point at the Vladimir Filanovsky field. These lines will be used for further infrastructure development.

The first stage of pipeline construction should be completed by end 2014 and the second stage in summer 2015.

Overall, the infrastructure development project for the field incorporates more than 330 kilometres of subsea lines and 350 kilometres of onshore lines. Field commissioning is scheduled for end 2015.

JP Kenny Norway has signed a FEED (front end engineering design) contract with Norske Shell for the high temperature, high pressure Linnorm project in Norway.

Valued at approximately US$9 million, this contract forms part of a global Enterprise Frame Agreement awarded to Wood Group Kenny earlier in 2012 by Shell Global Solutions International BV.

The Linnorm FEED study will be carried out at the JP Kenny Norway offices in Stavanger and Oslo and is the single largest project to be executed by JP Kenny Norway to date. The project involves the provision of a full SURF (subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline) work scope.

JP Kenny Norway awarded US$9 million Linnorm contract by Shell

Reef Subsea has been awarded by A/S Norske Shell a seabed dredging contract on Ormen Lange field development.

The task will be performed by the newly built Scanmachine 4, the new generation of the highly experienced tool carrier developed and operated by Scanmudring. The water depth, challenging seabed conditions and high precision required in achieving the work are ideal to the new Scanmachine 4 capabilities.

The project objective is to perform final seabed preparation for pipelay within narrow geometrical tolerances and with a curved route to follow. The dredging and rectification works will be achieved at the Ormen Lange field development at a water depth of about 950 metres, with an uneven seabed mainly composed of hard clay. The contract has an option for similar work to be accomplished for Ormen Lange Further North development.

Reef Subsea awarded Ormen Lange seabed dredging contract by Shell


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Ocean Installer secures subcontractor for work at the Draugen field


Prosafe has secured a contract with BP to deploy its accommodation unit Safe Caledonia at BP’s Andrew Area development project in the British sector of the North Sea. The firm period of the contract, with a duration from the

Prosafe wins US$340 million BP flotel contracts

Saipem has won two new engineering and construction contracts worth over US$1.1 billion for work in Russia and the North Sea. Saipem will carry out the EPCI (engineering, procurement, construction and installation) of a 114 kilometre 55.9 centimetre oil pipeline and a 71.1 centimetre gas pipeline over the same distance connecting the Vladimir Filanovsky offshore field to onshore shut-off valves in Russia’s Kalmyk Republic. The two export pipelines will be built in the Northern Caspian Sea at a maximum water depth of six metres, along with a ten kilometre onshore oil pipeline and 20 kilometre onshore gas pipeline.In the North Sea, Saipem has won an EPCI contract with Dong Exploration and Production for another two pipelines connecting the Hejre field, 300 kilometres off Denmark, to an offshore platform.This contract called for EPCI work on a 24 kilometre, 30.5 centimetre gas export pipeline in a water depth of 69 metres and an oil export pipeline of 90 kilometres with a 25.4 centimetre diameter in a water depth of 40 metres.These activities will be carried out between the second and third quarter of 2014.

Saipem wins US$1.1 billion pipeline contracts

Ocean Installer awards an EPC manifold contract to EAB Engineering.Ocean Installer was in April 2012 awarded a contract for EPCI (engineering, procurement, construction, installation) services in the context of A/S Norske Shell’s further development of the Draugen field.

In the process of securing subcontractors, Ocean Installer has now contracted EAB to design and deliver a Tee Manifold to be installed summer 2013. The contract includes procurement of all valves, piping and structural steel. Estimated total weight of the Tee Manifold is 110 tons. A/S Norske Shell will supply the Aker subsea hubs and a multi-phase flow meter as CPI.

end of 2012 to the end of August 2013, carries a value of around US$65.4 million, giving an approximate dayrate of US$311,400, with an additional one month option.Prosafe recently won a one month extension with BP for use of its Safe Scandinavia unit at the Valhall field off Norway at a dayrate of nearly US$243,000.The two deals, worth as much as US$340.3 million if options are exercised, have yielded respective dayrates of US$283,700 and US$315,300.

Penspen lands Greater Stella contract

The offshore business stream of the Penspen Group, Andrew Palmer & Associates, has been contracted to provide detailed design services to EPC Offshore Limited in support of Ithaca Energy’s GSA (Greater Stella Area) Development. The contract follows on from Penspen’s recent work for EPC Offshore on the FEED (front end engineering design) for the GSA Development.

Under the terms of agreement, Penspen will provide detailed design services for the Phase 1 subsea structures and associated tie-in infrastructure, consisting of the Stella Main Drill Centre manifold, Northern Drill Centre manifold, Export Riser Base, Oil and Gas Export Tee assemblies.

The Stella field is located in the central North Sea within UKCS Block 30/6a, 280 kilometres southeast of Aberdeen in a water depth of approximately 85 metres. Ithaca Energy contracted EPC Offshore to provide project management of the subsea and pipelines elements of the development in 2011, who subsequently contracted Penspen.

Alderley Systems wins major North Sea oil and gas contracts

BP has awarded multi-million pound contracts for North Sea oil and gas metering systems and a slops separation package to Alderley Systems.They will be installed on the BP Quad 204, a new FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) unit to replace an existing vessel in the Schiehallion field, west of Shetland. It is part of a BP project to replace the existing subsea system with 15 new/replacement flowlines and 21 new/replacement risers, and 14 new wells in addition to the 52 existing wells. The objective is to produce 130 million barrels of oil a day and 220 metre standard cubic feet per day of gas compression.


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Emerson Process Management has secured a multi-million dollar deal to supply subsea instrumentation as part of a subsea production system to be installed by Aker Solutions on the Brynhild field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Emerson will deliver Roxar multiphase meters, pressure and temperature sensors, chemical injection valves and sand monitors under the workscope of the contract.

The system is intended to measure oil, gas and water flow rates as well as help to optimise production from the Brynhild field, which is being developed as a cross border subsea tieback to the Pierce floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the UK sector.

Emerson will also deliver a number of downhole pressure and temperature gauges directly to Lundin.Aker has been awarded a US$122 million engineering, procurement and construction contract by Lundin for the

Emerson secures multi-million dollar Brynhild metering contract

subsea production system on Brynhild, located northeast of the Pierce field in approximately 80 metres of water.


NPCC to be awarded the offshore package for the Upper Zakum expansion project in United Arab Emirates

NPCC (National Petroleum Construction Company) is set to be awarded the offshore package for the Upper Zakum 750 oilfield expansion project with a low bid of under US$1 billion as it joins Technip to bid for a second package for construction of massive onshore facilities.

Rolls Royce lands US$136 million Dolphin Qatar deal

Rolls Royce has been awarded contracts worth US$136 million to supply technology and long-term services support to Dolphin Energy Limited which transports natural gas from Qatar to the United Arab Emirates and Oman via a 364 kilometre subsea pipeline.

Rolls Royce will supply Dolphin Energy Limited with three industrial trent gas turbine compression packages. In addition to selecting Rolls Royce energy technology, Dolphin Energy Limited has signed a TotalCare® long-term equipment service agreement designed to increase equipment availability and reliability. Delivery of the packaged units to Ras Laffan will be in the second and third quarters of 2013.

ORPIC ready to reveal the shortlisted companies for the US$1.5 billion EPC package of the Sohar Refinery expansion project

ORPIC (Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Company) is expected to reveal the shortlisted companies for the EPC (engineering procurement construction) package of the Sohar Refinery expansion contract at the end of May 2012.

About eight international EPC contractors are expected to be the front runners to win the EPC contracts for the US$1.5 billion refinery expansion project. The company expects to award the contracts by the end of 2012, while construction work on the expansion project will only start in 2013 and is slated for completion in the first half of 2016. While part of the refined products is earmarked for export, a significant proportion of the output will be consumed locally.

The expansion will add around 60,000 bpd (barrels per day) of new capacity to Sohar Refinery’s present processing capacity of around 116,000 bpd of crude and long residue. This represents a hefty 70% jump in the plant’s existing processing capacity.


TECNA awarded new project in Salalah pipeline network

TECNA has been awarded a new project by the OGC (Oman Gas company) in international bidding to develop the conceptual engineering for the extraction of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) in Salalah pipeline network in Southern Oman.

This is a high-tech engineering study that over ten months will assess the potential recovery of Liquefied Petroleum Gases at various points of the gas pipeline facilities in the Salalah region of Oman.The project includes, among other works, the economic studies and development of business models, market research for the marketing of LPG and condensate, identifying and selecting the most suitable process alternatives for maximising recovery, localisation studies of the facilities and the estimates for the investment required in each case, with the aim of allowing OGC to define the next phases of the project.

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Halliburton lands US$95 million Badra contract

Halliburton has been awarded a US$95 million contract to test and complete almost a dozen wells at a Gazprom Neft play in Iraq. The US services behemoth will be working on 11 wells on the Badra oilfield in Wasit Province in the eastern part of the Middle Eastern oil powerhouse.Testing of the first well is set to begin in the third quarter of 2012.Schlumberger had already, in 2011, been awarded the contract to drill the wells with the first spudded in November 2011. Three rigs are involved in the drilling with production to begin once the final field development plan is completed in 2013.The development project has a 20 year term with a five year extension possible. Estimates put reserves at three billion barrels of oil. Production is expected to hit 170,000 barrels of oil per day by 2017.In total 17 wells and five injections are planned.

Jordan tenders for Aqaba Red Sea oil port

Jordan Government is inviting international contractors to prequalify for a crude oil and products terminal at its Red Sea port of Aqaba.Large imports of gasoil, organised via monthly tenders, have put pressure on Jordan’s only oil jetty that can accommodate tankers of around 400,000 tonnes.Contractors were invited to respond to a prequalification request by June 21, 2012. The project would be carried on the basis of a lump sum turnkey job.Jordan also plans to offer a tender to build an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal in the port of Aqaba by June 2012.


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ExxonMobil to tender for US$300 million West Qurna-1 field in Iraq

ExxonMobil is studying bids from engineering companies for 100,000 bpd (barrels per day) crude production facility for Iraq’s West Qurna-1 as the company moves to further expand output from the giant field.The estimated US$300 million contract is expected to be awarded by the end of 2012. The company has also issued a tender for flow-line stations. The plant will help raise processing capacity from West Qurna-1 from the current level of about 400,000 bpd. Bidders include an alliance of UK companies including Petrofac and Consolidated Contracts Company (CCC), and a joint venture of Dome international and Kentz.

New contracts and bidding rounds for the second phase of PetroRabigh petrochemicals complex in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical have issued letters of intent to at least two contractors who submitted the lowest bids to expand a petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia. Petrofac and GS Engineering and Construction were picked among contractors to be part of building the second phase of the already operational complex in Rabigh on the Red Sea coast of the world’s largest oil exporter. Petrofac leads the race for the two packages that involve a tank farm and common utilities. GS Engineering and Construction is frontrunner for two process packages known as CP3 and CP4. GS is also the lowest bidder on a utilities package for interconnecting. The estimated total budget cost of the expansion was US$6 to US$8 billion.

Daelim Industrial has submitted the lowest bids for the CP1 package, for cumene, phenol and cyclohexanone. Aramco and Sumitomo have extended the bidding validity date of this package till June 2, 2012. Saipem is the lowest bidder on an aromatics complex, known as RP2. The deals had been expected to be awarded in the first quarter of 2012 but Sumitomo was unsure if it made economic sense and wanted a feasibility study to be completed.

ExxonMobil signs US$100 million contract to drill 20 oil wells in Iraq

ExxonMobil Corporation signed a contract on 2nd May 2012 with the Iraqi Drilling Company, to drill 20 oil wells in West Qurna-1 Oil Field in Basra, south of Iraq.

The project is scheduled to complete within 24 months as of 3rd May 2012 and cost up to US$100 million.

West Qurna (Phase 1) Field – Iraq

West Qurna is one of Iraq’s largest oil fields, located north of Rumaila field, west of Basra. Shell holds a 15% interest in the large concession in which operator ExxonMobil holds 60% and the remainder being held by the Iraqi Oil Exploration Company (25%).


AMEC awarded topsides design contract on Mad Dog Phase 2 deepwater project, Gulf of Mexico

AMEC has been awarded a contract from BP Exploration & Production Inc. to provide FEED (front end engineering design) services for the topsides facilities for the second phase of the Mad Dog field development. The new facility will be of one of the largest floating production systems to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico. The facility will produce oil and gas from the Phase two development area within the existing Mad Dog field in the Green Canyon region of the Gulf of Mexico, about 320 kilometres south of New Orleans, Louisiana.

McDermott International receives brownfield contract for North Coast Marine Area project

McDermott International received a brownfield contract to provide two new permanent living quarter modules, including FEED (front end engineering design), construction, transportation and installation for BG’s North Coast Marine Area project.

The two modules comprise a 640 ton, 60 man quarters module for the Hibiscus platform and a 915 ton, 62 man quarters module for the Poinsettia platform. The Hibiscus module will also accommodate new electrical power generation and distribution, the design of which is being performed by the McDermott engineering office in Houston. The Poinsettia and Hibiscus fields are located in the North Coast Marine Area in waters up to 162 metres, offshore Trinidad.


Hyundai ahead in race for US$1.2 billion contract

Hyundai Heavy Industries is front runner to land a huge contract worth up to US$1.2 billion to construct a 30,000 tonne deck for ExxonMobil’s Hebron project off Newfoundland, Canada.Hyundai has been competing against two other companies including, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries in the international tender for the Hebron contract which takes in utility and process modules. The contract is expected to be awarded towards the end of 2012.

ExxonMobil awarded WorleyParsons US$360 million Hebron topsides contract, offshore Canada

ExxonMobil has awarded WorleyParsons the topsides contract for its Hebron oil and gas development in the Atlantic Ocean, off Canada. The award comes as a result of ExxonMobil exercising its option to award WorleyParsons the detailed EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) services contract after the company carried out the FEED (front-end engineering and design) work on the topsides.WorleyParsons will work with Fluor to provide overall project management of the contract, with subcontracts to be awarded to multiple third parties.The company estimated its portion of the service revenue under the EPC contract to be US$360 million over five years.

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Technip lands Mad Dog FEED contractTechnip has been awarded a FEED (front end engineering design) contract by BP for the second spar on its Mad Dog development in the Gulf of Mexico.

The contract covers the design of a Spar hull and mooring system and is the first award under the 10 year spar platform services agreement Technip signed with BP in 2011.Detailed engineering for the new spar is scheduled to start during the second half of 2012 and Technip will execute the contract from its operating centre in Houston, Texas, with support from its centre in Pori, Finland.

BP has previously estimated the Greater Mad Dog area to hold four billion barrels of oil in place and at least 600 million boe (barrels of oil equivalent) in recoverable reserves.Technip delivered the existing Mad Dog spar, which is capable of processing 80,000 barrels per day, to BP in 2004.

Hebron Field – Canada The Hebron field is located 350 kilometres offshore the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Oil field with recoverable reserves estimated at 700 million barrels. ExxonMobil is the operator holding 36.04% interest in the field, with partners Chevron (26.63%), Suncor Energy (22.73%), Statoil (9.7%) and Nalcor (4.9%) holding the remaining interest.

Tata Steel secures US$158 million deepwater pipe contract in Gulf of Mexico

Tata Steel has been awarded a major contract worth more than US$158 million to provide pipe for the Discovery Producer Services LLC gas pipeline in Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. Discovery is a 60/40 joint venture between Williams Partners LP and DCP Midstream Partners LP.

The company will supply Discovery’s Keathley Canyon ConnectorTM with 345 kilometre of 50.8 centimetre diameter submerged arc welded linepipe, weighing more than 110,000 metric tonnes. The pipe will be manufactured at Tata Steel’s 106.7 centimetre mill in Hartlepool, England. Delivery is scheduled for the second half of 2012.

The Keathley Canyon ConnectorTM gas pipe will have a gathering capacity of over 400 million cubic feet, gathering the gas from the Keathley Canyon, Walker Ridge and Green Canyon areas of the Gulf of Mexico. The pipe will be laid at water depths of up to 2,250 metres and is designed to meet the required specification for deepwater conditions.

OceanWorks International awarded contract for MWCC subsea dispersant fluid system

OceanWorks International has been awarded a design, manufacturing and test contract to provide MWCC (Marine Well Containment Company) with a SDFS (subsea dispersant fluid system). The system will further enhance MWCC’s existing dispersant injection system, also developed and manufactured by OceanWorks International.

The SDFS is designed to sit on the seabed in the proximity of a subsea well at depths of up to 3,000 metres and provides the capability to deliver dispersant fluid to a deepwater well control incident in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The system is designed to allow the dispersant flow to be provided by either a surface vessel or autonomously based on ROV provided flow input.

Equipment to be provided includes three battery/pump modules, based on OceanWorks proven 150 kWhr UPS system design, two gathering manifolds, two distribution manifolds, static mixers, all interconnecting hose assemblies and deployment equipment.



Technip awarded subsea contract for the Lucius field in the Gulf of Mexico

Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the development of the Lucius field, located in the Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of approximately 2,130 metres.

The contract covers the installation of a flexible flowline, multiple flexible gas lift jumpers, main gas lift and infield umbilicals, subsea distribution units, electrical, fiber optic and hydraulic flying leads.

In addition, the scope of work covers design and fabrication of the flexible flowline end termination, fabrication and installation of rigid jumpers, burial of flowlines, flooding and hydro-testing of the flowline system.

Technip’s operating centre in Houston, Texas, will perform the overall project management.

ClampOn secures order to supply subsea and PIG detectors for Tubular Bells field

ClampOn has secured an order to supply multiple subsea acoustic sand vibration detectors and PIG detectors for the Hess Tubular Bells project. The project is in 1,341 metres of water and is approximately 135 miles southeast of New Orleans in Mississippi Canyon Block 725. The expected start up for Tubular Bells is the fourth quarter of 2014.

Framo Engineering awarded subsea pumping contract by Chevron

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. has awarded Framo Engineering the contract for engineering, procurement, manufacturing and delivery of complete subsea pumping systems for the Jack and St.Malo fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

The scope of supply consists of several Framo single-pump stations, Framo cx subsea single-phase pumps, subsea electrical power components including high voltage wet mateable connectors and subsea transformers, subsea pump control system, installation, intervention and testing tools, and all project management, engineering, Q-HSE and administration services in order to fulfill the project deliverables.


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OGX declares Waikiki oil field commercial

OGX has declared the Waikiki oil field commercial, making it the company’s first commercial declaration of an offshore oil discovery. The Waikiki field will be renamed Tubarao Martelo or Hammerhead Shark. The development plan for the oil field is being finalised and will be submitted to ANP soon. OGX estimates the field holds recoverable reserves of 285 million barrels of oil with production expected to start in the second half of 2013.The Waikiki accumulation was discovered through the wildcat well 1-OGX-25-RJS in December 2010 and production is expected to start in the second half of 2013. The plan for production at the Waikiki complex, of which the Tubarão Martelo field is a part, involves employment of production units FPSO OSX-3 and WHP-2, which are being built by Modec and Techint.

FMC Technologies signs subsea contract for the Parque das Conchas Complex

FMC Technologies has signed a contract with Shell Group Companies to supply subsea systems for the Parque das Conchas Phase II project.FMC’s scope of supply will include 11 subsea trees rated at 10,000 psi (pounds per square inch) and two production manifolds. The company will also supply an artificial lift manifold containing four subsea gas/liquid separation and boosting modules, as well as related subsea controls. The subsea system will be engineered and manufactured at FMC Technologies’ facility in Rio de Janeiro. Deliveries will take place in 2012.

Saipem and Commsa ahead in the bid to win US$1.4 billion EPC contract for Perla development

Saipem & Commsa are understood to have nudged ahead in the bid to win Repsol and ENI’s three different EPC contracts

for the US$1.4 billion Perla development in the Cardon IV block in the Gulf of Venezuela. J Ray McDermott is also understood to have bid on all 3 contracts, as has Dynamic Industries in association with Venezuela’s Vhicoa. Dragados Offshore also bid in the tender, but only for the fabrication sector. The first tender covers platforms, the 2nd transport and installation and the third flow-lines and pipelines. The project will also include a 62 killometre, 76.2 centimetre pipeline to a modular onshore processing facility for separation of gas and liquids.




Blue Water Shipping awarded Sapinhoa FPSO Conversion Project

Blue Water Shipping received a contract to provide logistics for materials and equipment to China and Brazil, where the conversion of the Cidade de Ilhabela FPSO is taking place. The scope of work includes converting the tank vessel into an FPSO, which is 400 metres long and 70 metres wide. First part of the project takes place in China where the preliminary, basic changes of the tank vessel will be carried out. Subsequently the vessel will sail to SBM’s shipyard in Brazil where the final part of the conversion will take place. The entire conversion project is expected to be completed in 2014.

OGX Petroleo e Gas Tubarao Azul offshore oilfield in the Waimea complex is commercially viable

OGX Petroleo e Gas has declared its Tubarao Azul offshore oilfield commercially viable, the company’s first such declaration since it was founded five years ago.The Campos basin oilfield had an estimated recoverable volume of 110 million barrels of oil from the field over its production phase. The company will now look to connect a second well and improve production by floating production and storage vessel OSX-1.

SBM signs FPSO charter deal offshore Brazil

SBM Offshore has signed for the 20 year charter and operation of FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela for the north part of Sapinhoá field (former Guara Area) development in the pre-salt area, offshore Brazil.The contracts have been executed with Guara BV and with BM-S-9 Consortium, which consists of member companies Petrobras as operator (45%), BG E&P Brasil LTDA (30%), and Repsol Sinopec Brasil S.A. (25%).The unit will be owned and operated by a Joint Venture comprising of affiliated companies of SBM Offshore and QGOG, and Mitsubishi Corporation. First production from the FPSO is planned for the second half of 2014.

Wärtsilä Hamworthy secures inert gas contract in Brazil

Wärtsilä Hamworthy has underscored its technical prowess in the offshore sector by winning the contract from Brazilian shipyard Ecovix-Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. to deliver inert gas generator units to eight FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessels in the Santos Basin.Six of the units will be deployed for the Tupi fields with the other two being utilised for the Guará field. The first two units will undergo full scale testing at the factory in Moss prior to delivery starting as soon as the end of December 2012, up to the end of January 2015.

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Oceaneering lands US$120 million umbilicals contract in Brazil

Oceaneering has lined up a record contract to provide roughly 200 kilometres of umbilicals for Petrobras’ Lula and Sapinhoa fields in Brazil. Manufacturing for the US$120 million deal will start in the third quarter of 2012 in Oceaneering’s Niteroi, Brazil plant, and is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2015.

Wärtsilä Hamworthy lands Petrobras flare gas recovery contract

Wärtsilä Hamworthy has won a contract to supply its flare gas recovery packages to four FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) units under construction for Petrobras. The units, each of which will be able to handle 150,000 bpd (barrels per day), are to be deployed on the pre-salt fields, off Santos, Brazil. Three of the FPSOs will be utilised for Block BM-S-11 Lula field (Tupi) and one will go to Block BM-S-9 Sapinhoá field (Guara). The first FPSO is expected to be operational by the end of 2014, with the next three producing by 2015.

Repsol confirm significant potential at Campos pre-salt resources

Statoil together with operator Repsol Sinopec and partner Petrobras confirm the significant potential of the pre-salt block BM-C-33 in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.The total estimated resources of the block amount to more than 700 million barrels of light crude and three Tcf (trillion cubic feet) of gas. The estimate includes the Seat, Gávea and Pão de Açúcar discoveries.

Block BM-S-9 Sub-Salt – Sapinhoá Field – BrazilThe Sapinhoa (Guara) oil discovery, located in the Santos basin pre-salt offshore Brazil in Block BM-S-9, is estimated to contain recoverable volumes of 1 to 2 Bboe (Billions barrels of oil equivalent). Petrobras, operator, holds 45% interest, whlist partners BG Group holds 30% and Repsol holds the remaining 25%.

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