North Sea & Europe Oil & Gas Pipeline & Transportation News

Lundin Britain has awarded Technip a $30-million lump-sum contract for an augmentation pipeline at the Broom field in the UK North Sea

Gazprom’s management committee has been reviewing construction progress on the Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi gas pipeline, much of which will follow an offshore route under the Russian sector of the Black Sea.

Russia and Turkmenistan have signed amendments to a long-term gas purchase and sales contract established in April 2003.

Germany has issued approvals for its section of the offshore route for the Nordstream gas trunkline from northern Russia.

Nord Stream has received a permit to construct the 123-km (76-mi) Russian section of its 1,223-km (760-mi) natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea.

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).

TDW Offshore Services has completed a low pressure isolation operation on an export pipeline riser in the North Sea.

The Petroleum Saftey Authority Norway has granted Gassco consent to carry out modifications at the Kollsnes natural gas processing plant in Norway.

BJ Services has completed a subsea pipeline pre-commissioning operation for Saipem on the Akpo field, offshore Nigeria using the deepwater support vessel Bourboun Trieste and FPSO Akpo.

The Swedish and Finnish governments have granted permits to Nord Stream to use Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) for a pipeline through the Baltic Sea.

Denmark’s Energy Authority has granted a permit to Nord Stream AG to construct the Danish section of a planned 1,223-km (760-mi) natural gas pipeline.

Vice Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanovich Sechin, Russian Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Turkey Taner Yildiz, and Minister for Economic Development of the Italian Republic Claudio Scajola signed a joint statement concerning the construction of the Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline between Turkey's Black Sea coast and its Mediterranean coast.

Nord Stream in the fourth quarter will begin disposal of unexploded ordnance in the security corridor of its pipeline route in Finnish and Swedish waters.

Blue Stream Pipeline Co. has awarded DOF Subsea Norway a contract for two external pipeline inspection campaigns in the Black Sea using the vessel Geosund.

Gazprom has welded the first joint of the Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi gas pipeline.

ACS Cobra Castor UTE has awarded J P Kenny a contract for construction management and procurement support services offshore Spain.

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted StatoilHydro consent to use the Veslefrikk field facilities until 2020.

BP has awarded Subsea 7 a $150-million contract for a gas export pipeline (GEL) project offshore Angola.

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.

TAQA Bratani has become the new operator of the Brent System pipeline and facilities in the UK Northern North Sea.

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.

Petrobras has awarded Nexans a $48-million contract to develop, manufacture, and supply the electro-hydraulic control umbilicals for the Tambau and Urugua fields in the Santos basin.