Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) awarded the McDermott International and GE Oil & Gas consortium a SURF contract to provide subsea equipment for the early production system (EPS) on the Atlanta field, offshore Brazil. Map from QGEP…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) is investigating a fire that broke out on the Petrojarl Knarr floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) in the Knarr field, North Sea. Petrojarl Knarr achieving first oil…
Teekay Offshore provides a look at their newest first floating accommodation vessel, the Arendal Spirit, during its sea trials. Teekay took delivery of the vessel from Cosco's Nantong yard just this week. The Arendal Spirit is…
Teekay Offshore Partners has taken delivery of its first floating accommodation vessel, the Arendal Spirit, from Cosco's Nantong yard. The unit, a Sevan Marine cylindrical design, has accommodation for 500 people. A further two vessels are on order…
Alan Thorpe recently paid a visit to Singapore’s shipyards. He gives a rundown of some of the current floating production and storage unit conversions underway in Singapore and in Malaysia. The…
Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard awarded Ezra Holding subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), a contract to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field’s extended well test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large…
Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR), part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC), has been awarded an engineering, procurement and commissoining contract contract by Petrojarl I for the upgrade of its FPSO Petrojarl I. The Petrojarl I (pictured) is a Teekay Petrojarl-managed FPSO…
Teekay Offshore Partners has entered into an agreement with a consortium led by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) to provide a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Atlanta field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil…
Deltamarin Ltd. entered into a contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. for the conversion of Teekay’s Navion Norvegia to the Libra floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO), for operations in the Libra field, offshore Brazil…
An oil discovery has been confirmed in the Libra field, offshore Brazil, Petrobras announced on 27 October. The Brazilian state-owned firm said the well 3-RJS-731 (informally known as NW-1) confirmed the discovery of good quality oil in the northwestern portion of the structure…
Teekay Petrojarl has gone live with Petrotechnics' Proscient operational performance and predictive risk platform on its Voyageur Spirit asset in the North Sea. The Voyageur Spirit Proscient go-live kicks off the global deployment of…
Cylindrical floating vessel firm Sevan Marine says it has a positive outlook with multiple leads for its technology, including FLNG technology and potential deals for floating production units on Premier Oil’s North Sea Bream field and Shell’s Penguins…
Teekay Offshore Partners have exercised the first of six options to build another floating accommodation unit (FAU) based on the cylindrical Sevan design at the Cosco Shipyard, Nantong, China. The new FAU is scheduled for delivery in Q3 2016…
Petrobras announced drilling has started on the first exploration well on the Libra pre-salt area in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. Drilling on Libra, discovered in 2010, and estimated to contain 8-12 billion boe, comes as marine production…
Brazilian drilling contractor Odebrecht Oil & Gas (OOG) announced that Roberto Simões will take over as the company CEO. Simões has been VP at Odebrecht since 2012, replacing Roberto Ramos. Odebrecht SA incorporated Odebrecht Óleo e Gás in 2006…
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