BW Offshore
Premier Oil to award Catcher FPSO EPC contract The London-based company Premier Oil (Premier) and its partners, Cairn Energy (Cairn) from Scotland and the Basf subsidiary Wintershall from Germany, are on the point to make the final decision to award the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a floating, storage, production and offloading (FPSO) […]
Eni, Vitol and GNPC work on Sankofa FPSO project The Italian major company Eni and its partners, the Swiss trading company Vitol and the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC), are working on the technical requirements of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to be moored in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) Block […]
Brazil Key Projects and Highlights In 2012, Brazil and its flagship, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), had to face a reality regarding their capacity to deliver on time all the fleets of drilling ships, exploration and production floating units and services vessels in respect with the local content requirements. Awarding contracts to shipyards not yet even built […]
Cobalt to join Majors in Angola pre-salt Kwansa Basin With the Cameia discovery, the junior Cobalt International Energy Company Inc. (Cobalt) is joining the major companies BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Galp Energia, Maersk, Petrobras, PetroChina, Statoil and Total in the development of the pre-salt oil and gas reserves lying in the Angola deep offshore Kwanza […]
Pemex to release Ayatsil call for tender in September The Mexican national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), selected the concept of the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to develop its Ayatsil-Tekel discovery in the shallow water of the Campeche Basin in the Gulf of Mexico. Located 130 kilometers northwest Cuidad del Carmen, Ayatsil […]
Petrobras to send invitations to bid on Carioca FPSO Petrobras and its partners, BG Group (BG) and Repsol–Sinopec Brazil, are preparing the invitation to bid (ITB) to be sent to the charter companies for the lease of a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at Carioca in the Santos Basin. Originally the Carioca FPSO was […]
Noble Energy plans first Colorado LNG facility The Houston-based Noble Energy (Noble) announced to build and operate the first facility in Colorado, USA, to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG). With a production capacity of only 100,000 gallons per day (approximately 60,000 tonnes per year), this Colorado LNG plant will rank among the smallest ones ever built […]
Modec and SBM in competitive FEED final for TEN The UK-based Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) and its partners Kosmos Energy (Kosmos) from USA, Anadarko Petroleum (Anadarko) from USA, Sabre Oil and Gas (Sabre) from USA, and the local Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) are approaching the time for decision on the design contest between Modec […]
