Santos awards Barossa FPSO deal to BW with $4.6bn firm value

Australian energy giant Santos has awarded a contract for the construction, connection, and operation of an FPSO for the Barossa gas field project off Australia to BW Offshore. The firm period contract is worth about $4.6 billion. The Barossa gas field is located 300 kilometres offshore Darwin in Australia. The field will be developed via […]

Deep Down sees up to $2M in new orders

Subsea equipment specialist Deep Down has received an order for the rental of its 3,500 metric ton carousel and associated umbilical spooling services. The project includes the mounting and sea-fastening of Deep Down’s carousel onto a customer-provided barge, trans-spooling of three umbilicals from an umbilical manufacturer’s facility onto the barge-mounted carousel, transportation of the fully […]

C-Power teams up with RigNet for smart connectivity solution

Columbia Power Technologies (C-Power) has entered into collaboration with RigNet for the supply of a comprehensive set of data and communications solutions for its autonomous offshore power systems (AOPS). Illustration/C-Power’s SeaRAY resident system concept (Courtesy of C-Power) The solutions will provide upstream and downstream data transfer to and from payloads operating with an AOPS platform, […]

Watch: TechnipFMC Karish riser ops

Subsea giant TechnipFMC has completed the wet store installation of three steel lazy wave risers for Energean’s Karish and Tanin development project offshore Israel. This embedded content is only visible after accepting cookies. Change your preferences The pipelay vessel Deep Blue executed the project, mobisling from Limassol Port in Cyprus, after delivering the risers from […]

GC Rieber hands over Polar Queen

Norwegian offshore vessels owner GC Rieber said Tuesday it has delivered the IMR / Walk-to-Work vessel Polar Queen to its new owner, following the sale agreement in February this year. Courtesy: GC Rieber According to GC Rieber, the sale to an undisclosed buyer will see the vessel, built at Freire Shipyard in 2011, leave the […]

Green Minerals inks deal with OSI; Lists on Euronext Growth Oslo

Courtesy: OSI Green Minerals, a subsidiary of SeaBird Exploration has signed a letter of intent with a consortium led by Oil States Industries (OSI) to collaborate on a FEED study for a turnkey harsh environment deep sea mining system (HEDSMS) against a long term contract for exclusive use within Norwegian jurisdiction as defined by the […]

SES delivers for Strohm – Offshore Energy

Subsea Energy Solutions (SES) has completed three projects for thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) specialist Strohm, formerly Airborne Oil and Gas. For the projects, the UK-based SES provided a complete equipment package including its patented SUB-VBR Vertebrae Bend Restrictors and SUB-BALLAST-TCP Ballast Modules, designed specifically for TCP. All manufacturing was completed during 2020 and 2021 whilst […]

Sapura Energy gets new boss as current CEO retires after 25 years

Malaysian oil and gas services company Sapura Energy has informed that its President and Group CEO, Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin, is retiring, after leading the group for more than 25 years. Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin will be succeeded by Datuk Mohd Anuar Taib, who takes over the helm as Sapura Energy Group Chief Executive Officer, […]

Reach Subsea scores more work

Norwegian contractor Reach Subsea has alone, and together with its Swedish partner MMT, secured several contracts and call-offs under frame agreements. The company said Tuesday it now has approximately 800 project days in the bag for 2021 execution, compared with the 550 days announced in our 4Q 2020 report. The project days include survey, inspection, […]

Drilling stops on Wintershall Dea field after serious rig incident

Drilling operations have been stopped and an investigation has been launched following a serious incident on the West Mira rig. At the time of the incident, the rig was working for Wintershall Dea on the Nova field in the North Sea. According to an update by Wintershall Dea on Tuesday, there was an incident on […]