Asia Oil & Gas Pipelines & Transportation News

Cargotec will supply two 10-point MacGregor mooring systems for two offshore pipelay, heavy-lift construction vessels being built at Cosco (Nantong) Shipyard Co. Ltd.

CNOOC Ltd. reports an oil sheen in Bohai Bay near the Jinzhou 9-3 oil field.

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.

TDW Offshore Services has completed a successful pipeline pressure isolation and joint test offshore western Borneo for Sarawak Shell Berhad.

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

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announces that it has successfully carried out an assessment of the design capacity of the KG D6 deepwater gas production facilities on December 23, 2009.

BJ Services has completed pre-commissioning work for Helix Energy Solutions Group on an 18-well subsea production system on the KG-D6 field in the Krishna Godavari basin, offshore India.

TDW Offshore Services (TDW) and Amserve Engineering have completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation in Malaysia on behalf of Malaysia LNG (MLNG).

CAPE Group has developed a semi-automatic, remotely controlled orbital welding system to repair oil and gas pipelines on the seabed.

Swiber Holdings has won its first pipeline installation contract offshore Myanmar.

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH).

ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia has awarded Barmada McDermott a contract to replace a 12-in. (30-cm) full wellstream pipeline between the Guntong-B and Guntong-A platforms offshore Malaysia.

Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (CPCL) has contracted Mott MacDonald to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) consultancy services for a proposed single point mooring (SPM) project.

Leighton has awarded Hallin Marine a $15-million contract to supply saturation diving support for ONGC’s Pipeline Replacement Project (PRP2) offshore Mumbai, India.

Despite the present economic woes, the Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) business is underpinned by compelling long-term fundamentals and is poised to be a major growth sector, with expenditures of $23 billion forecast to 2016, according to Douglas-Westwood’s World FLNG Market Report 2010-2016.

Petronas has signed a global frame agreement on the supply of gas turbines and compressors from GE Oil & Gas affiliate Nuovo Pignone S.p.A.