Allseas’ Solitaire has started laying the Gulf of Finland stretch of the Nord Stream gas line in the Baltic Sea.

The next MTS Houston Section luncheon will be held on September 23, 2010, and will feature a presentation by Michael Kologinczak, Senior Engineer with Williams on the Gulfstream Natural Gas System.

Allseas’ Solitaire has sailed out of Rotterdam following an equipment retrofit to install part of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Gulf of Finland.

Saipem´s pipelay vessel Castoro Sei is resuming work on the Finnish offshore stretch of the Nordstream gas trunkline installation in the Baltic Sea.

Fairfield Energy has contracted Technip UK to provide subsea engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services for the Dunlin Fuel Gas pipeline project in the northern North Sea.

Subsea 7 has won a $100-million contract for work in the UK sector of the North Sea for an unnamed client.

Oil production from East Belumut field on PM 323 offshore Malaysia has resumed, reports Newfield Exploration Co.

Stupp Corp. reports that it has successfully completed the manufacture, coating, shipment and delivery of 90 miles of 36-in. OD, X-70 API-5L PSL2 custom steel line pipe.

Work in the waters around the port of Dalia has succeeded in capturing any oil remaining from a release following a pipeline explosion last week, according to reports from China.

Installation of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is making good progress, with the first of the two lines reaching the landfall point on the Russian shore.

ClampOn has a Letter of Intent from FMC to supply 19 subsea sand and vibration monitors and pig detectors for Total’s Laggan-Tormore project west of Shetland.

Eni is seeking an entrée into Azerbaijan’s upstream sector via the proposed CNG (compressed natural gas) project.

Saipem has awarded Cybernetix a second contract for the Kashagan development in the North Caspian Sea.

An oil pipeline offshore peninsular Malaysia has been damaged by an unidentified vessel, according to operator Newfield Exploration.

Saipem has won new offshore contracts in various locations worth over €1 billion ($1.267 billion) in total.

Iran could export gas to India via a new long-distance seabed pipeline, according to the Iranian Petroleum Ministry.

BG Group’s Egyptian subsidiary says that it plans to invest $2 billion to install a pipeline and drill new wells off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, according to a Reuters report.

BP has awarded Technip a subsea engineering and installation contract for the Devenick field gas/condensate development in the UK northern North Sea, 234 km (145 mi) north east of Aberdeen.

Apache North Sea has contracted Subsea 7 for a pipeline bundle for its newly launched Bacchus subsea development project in the UK central North Sea.

Saipem’s pipelay vessel Castoro Sei has arrived in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to continue construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

ONGC has commissioned pipeline inspection services offshore Mumbai from Fugro Survey (India).

AGR Drilling Services (AGR DS) is providing excavation services to Van Oord Australia for Chevron’s Gorgon project.

GDF Suez has become the fifth participant in the Nord Stream consortium constructing the 1,224-km (760-mi) subsea pipeline taking gas from Russia through the Baltic Sea to western Europe.

Gazprom has completed engineering and reconnaissance surveys in the Black Sea for the South Stream pipeline project to take gas from Russia to central and southeastern Europe.

Statoil says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this week between Azerbaijan and Turkey will help advance the next development phase of the Shah Deniz project in the Caspian Sea.