Shareholders of both US-based underwater tech firm FMC Technologies and French engineering house Technip have voted to approve the proposed business combination of the two companies, the firms announced today (5 December). The merger was announced back in May…
2016 has been a year of challenges for the oil and gas industry. Audrey Leon surveys some of the year’s notable starts. Shell’s Stones project came online in September 2016, using the Gulf of Mexico’s second ever FPSO…
Statoil has awarded contracts to the FMC Technologies and Technip joint venture Forsys Subsea, and to Aker Solutions for its Trestakk field development that is scheduled for start-up in 2019, offshore Norway. Illustration of the Trestakk field…
Hurricane Energy is suspending the Lancaster sidetrack well offshore the UK to develop as a future producer and moving on to its Lincoln well. Technip today also confirmed a win for its subsea joint venture with FMC Technologies, Forsys Subsea…
Optime Subsea Services, subsea technology company, will merge with engineering house Telemark Technologies to fast-track its subsea installation solution. Telemark Technologies is a supplier of pressurized vessel systems for testing operations of subsea…
Ashtead Technology has successfully completed a subsea integrity management project to support BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, West of Shetland. Subsea technology and equipment provider Ashtead deployed its new Deflection Monitoring System (DMS)…
New business models involving alliances, integrated offerings and early engagement with suppliers were hailed as ways to do business better in today’s cost conscious environment, the Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen was told last week…
Japan-based Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) entered into a deal to aquire 25% interest EMAS Chiyoda Subsea Ltd. (ECS). The agreement between NYK, Ezra Holdings and Chiyoda Corp. will see the shareholding structure of ECS change to Ezra 40%…
French engineering house Technip and US-based underwater technologies firm FMC Technologies are to combine, creating a new US$13 billion business, the firms announced this morning. The companies, which firmed a joint venture, Forsys Subsea…
WFS Technology has appointed Mike Theobald as project director for Australia and Southeast Asia. Theobald brings his knowledge and understanding of subsea control systems, as well as an insight into how best to use Seatooth products and technology…
Subsea boosting is coming under the spotlight, despite and also because of the current low oil price environment. Elaine Maslin reports from Subsea Expo and Subsea Valley. Omnirise ECM Subsea Boosting Pump System…
Paris-headquartered subsea and engineering house Technip has come out of Q1 2016 with a better than expected profit, but its CEO expects front end market activity to remain damp until late-2016, early 2017. Meanwhile, Subsea 7 has seen…
Forsys Subsea, the joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, has been awarded a contract from Statoil to provide a subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for subsea tie-back of Trestakk to Åsgard A floating production…
Subsea 7 has won a three-year frame agreement, with four one-year options, for six North Sea clients: Chevron North Sea, Dana Petroleum (E&P), Hess Denmark, Nexen Petroleum UK, Talisman Sinopec Energy UK and TAQA Bratani. Under the frame agreement…
Subsea 7 inked a contract estimated to be between US$50 million to $150 million with Burullus Gas Co. for the platform extension and tie-in on the first phase of BP's West Nile Delta development of the Taurus and Libra fields, offshore Egypt…
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