Offshore technology
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 […]
BSP to tender 6 platforms for Champion enhancement Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) is preparing the call for tender (CFT) for the first phase of the Champion waterflood project to boost the production of this old oil and gas field offshore Brunei. Champion is the largest oil and gas field in the Sultanate of Brunei representing 40% […]
PetroChina to complete FEED by end of June 2013 The joint venture between the national oil companies China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and the local KazMunaiGas (KMZ) is working on a second crude oil export pipeline from Kazakhstan to China. As the existing pipeline, the new one would connect Atyrau on the coast […]
Grupo R orders four jack-up rigs to Keppel for Pemex The Mexican construction and oil field service company Grupo R ordered four jack-up drilling rigs to Keppel Fels in Singapore to support the exploration and production program planned by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to stop the Mexican production to decline and to increase it again. In October […]
Technip to complete FEED work for onshore NEB 3 The national Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Operations (ADCO) is making significant progress in the North East Bab field with the contracts to be awarded soon for the development of the third phase called NEB 3. ADCO is the joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company […]
SBM and Modec to charter three FPSOs to Petrobras The Brazil national oil company Petrobras signed with SBM Offshore (SBM) from The Netherlands two chartering contracts for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to substitute the P-66 and P-67 FPSOs currently in construction and planned for the Lula field. These contracts with SBM come in […]
KBR to complete FEED on Lucapa new-build FPSO On first quarter 2012, the international oil company Chevron through its local subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (Cabinda) and its partners, the national oil company Sonangol, Eni from Italy, Total from France, and Galp from Portugal, had awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract to […]
Mustang-Hejailan-DAR-PI signed Shoaiba project FEED Saudi Aramco selected Mustang Engineering and its local partners Faisal Jamel Al-Hejailan Engineering Company (Mustang Hejailan), Dar Al-Riyadh Engineering Consultants (DAR) and Petro-Infrastructure Engineering Consultants Company (PI Consult) for the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract of the Shoaiba Terminal project. Located in the southwest of Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea […]
