Nord Stream AG has awarded Technip a $47.6 million frame contract for the Nord Stream pipelay project in the Baltic Sea, designed to export gas from fields in Russia to customers in Europe.

BP has re-engaged Wood Group for engineering, modifications and
maintenance services to its Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT) on the main Shetland island off northern Scotland.

European energy utility WINGAS, a joint venture between Wintershall and Gazprom, has contracted Siemens Energy for a compression system for its OPAL natural gas Baltic Sea pipeline link.

Petrovietnam, Chevron, Mitsui, PTTEP sign Block B Gas Pipeline Project cooperation contract.

Dassault Systèmes has released a new version of its Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA.

Repsol Investigaciones Petroliferas has awarded a contract for development of two fields 50 km (31 mi) offshore Spain in the Mediterranean.

Nord Stream AG has received the Finnish “Water Permit,” the last permit required to start constructing its 1,223 km (760 mi) natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea.

C & C Technologies has completed a second project using the PROSAS Surveyor SAS sonar to assess pipeline integrity in the Gulf of Mexico.