Saipem has been awarded offshore construction and installation contracts off China and Brazil valued at more than $1 billion.

Dolphin Energy has awarded EnerMech Qatar LLC a three year call-off contract to provide nitrogen purging and leak testing on pipeline and related facilities offshore and onshore Qatar.

Research results over the past decade, including drilling and coring, experimental studies, and numerical simulations, are clarifying the resource potential of gas hydrates. Key to recent advances is the recognition that gas hydrate is not something exotic, requiring fundamentally new technologies. Instead, gas hydrate is best thought of as the shallow extension of existing deepwater petroleum systems, fully amenable to exploration and potential production using the same tools and concepts as traditional hydrocarbon resources. The conduct of the impending field sampling and production tests will be the next major step in the evaluation of this potential resource.

Technip has inaugurated its newest flexible pipe manufacturing plant. In Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia, the facility is built to support the growing subsea oil and gas sectors in the Asia/Pacific and Middle East regions.

CPC Corp. has awarded Hallin Marine Subsea International Ltd. a contract to carry out a free-span correction offshore Taiwan.

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

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.

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

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