More Subsea Oil & Gas News in North Sea & Europe

DOF Subsea UK has won two contracts from Saipem to support subsea installations on the Kizomba field offshore Angola

Statoil and its licensees in the Visund South project have submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) to Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

Viking Moorings and Seaweld Engineering has formed a partnership to collaborate in mooring jobs offshore West Africa.

A&P Group’s ship repair yard in northeast England has won a contract to build two subsea arches for Total’s deepwater Usan project, 100 km (62 mi) offshore Nigeria.

FMC has contracted ClampOn for downhole equipment for Statoil’s Pan Pandora subsea project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in water depths of around 950 ft (290 m).

Reef Subsea AS has acquired EXS Subsea AS, which owns 80% in S3, Specialist Subsea Services Ltd.

The Galsi pipeline across the Mediterranean Sea will transport natural gas from Algeria to Sardinia and mainland Italy once completed. Parts of the 560 km (348 mi) offshore route encounter difficult seabed morphology, descending and climbing steep slopes in water depths approaching 3,000 m (10,000 ft).

Statoil has kicked off production from the Vega gas and condensate field off Norway’s west coast. Vega has three seabed templates that send gas and condensate to the Gjøa platform. At full capacity, the Vega field will deliver 7 MMcm/d (247 MMcf/d) of gas and 3,900 cm/d (24,500 b/d) of condensate. At start-up, four wells were online. The final two are scheduled online in April.

Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has approved a series of manned underwater operations on the Norwegian shelf in 2011.

Claxton has completed a drilling riser rental project for Encana Corp. at Deep Panuke field offshore Nova Scotia, Canada.

PPS Glass Fibre has won a contract worth $350,000 to provide riser anti-roll chocks for four drillships owned by Stena Drilling.

Aker Solutions in Brazil has contracted Expro Connectors & Measurements to supply medium-power subsea electrical connections.

Ithaca Energy (UK) has contracted Bibby Offshore to install subsea equipment and the FPSO mooring system for the Athena development in the UK central North Sea.

Hess ApS has signed a $55-million contract for Subsea 7 Inc. to provide a pipeline bundle for the South Arne field development in the Danish North Sea.

Grenland Group is to deliver one integrated template structure and one manifold for FMC Technologies at Kongsberg. The total weight for the delivered structures will be approximately 350 metric tons (386 tons).

India’s state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. has awarded Expro a three-year, $4-million contract for subsea test tree operation offshore India.

Statoil has awarded the Åsgard subsea compression system contract to Aker Solutions.

Aker Subsea has won a NOK 80-million ($13-million) contract to supply direct electrical heating systems (DEH) for subsea pipelines for ENI’s Goliat field development in the Barents Sea.

Expro has a £1.9-million ($3-million) contract from FMC Kongsberg to supply connector systems to Total’s Laggan-Tormore gas field development, 125 mi (201 km) West of Shetland.

FMC Technologies has ordered a 13.5-km (8.4 mi) control and chemical injection umbilical from Nexans for the Marulk gas field on the Norwegian continental shelf.

The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway has presented its investigation into drilling and well operations at Gullfaks.

Statoil has awarded two subsea installation contracts valued at $90 million in total to Subsea 7.

FMC Technologies has contracted Grenland Group to supply an integrated template structure and a subsea manifold for Statoil’s Katla field development in the Norwegian North Sea.

Subsea 7 has won a contract valued at over $55 million from an unnamed operator in the Danish North Sea.