More Subsea Oil & Gas News in North Sea & Europe

With demands for maintenance and modifications increasing offshore Norway and globally, Aker Solutions’ service facility at Coast Center Base in Ågotnes, near Bergen, is well placed to capture new opportunities for equipment refurbishment.

This should be a landmark year for the subsea cluster around Bergen on Norway’s coast. The local industry association NCE Subsea is seeking to forge new links with Brazil, one of the most promising markets for the Bergen area’s thriving technology and services sectors.

Technip has signed a frame agreement with Reef Subsea subsidiary Technocean AS for subsea services in the North Sea and offshore Canada over the next four years.

TAQA Bratani has awarded Expro a year-long contract to provide large bore landing strings in the North Sea.

Subsea 7 has won a $60-million subsea installation contract from Centrica Energy Upstream for the Ensign project in the UK southern North Sea.

Douglas-Westwood predicts a 23% growth in subsea hardware capex to $139 billion in 2011-2015 compared to the prior five-year period.

FMC Technologies Inc. says its subsidiary, FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS, has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips Scandinavia AS to manufacture and supply subsea equipment and services for a water injection development in the Ekofisk field.

Statoil has awarded Technip a €90 million ($123.4 million) contract for work on Gygrid field in the Norwegian Sea.

Reef Subsea AS has chartered it newbuild Polar King to a Norwegian operator for three years with two one-year options.

Chevron USA Inc. has awarded subsea-to-surface engineering, construction, and services on Tahiti Phase II to Subsea 7.

Subsea 7 has contracted Nexans to provide static subsea electro-hydraulic control umbilicals for Total’s Laggan-Tormore gas/condensate project, 125 km (77.7 mi) west of Shetland.

Retrieval and pull-in of a submerged turret production (STP) buoy is complete at the Maersk Peregrino FPSO offshore Brazil.

Subsea 7 has won a $75-million pipeline engineering contract in the German sector of the North Sea.

Specialist Subsea Services has acquired Caledonian Geotech.

ABB has commissioned Aker Marine Contractors (AMC) to install a subsea power cable for Eni Norge’s Goliat field development in the Barents Sea.

First Subsea has appointed Phil Day as sales manager for North and South America.

GE Oil & Gas will supply subsea equipment to Petrobras for deepwater Brazil and to Maersk for use in the North Sea.

Aker Solutions has been awarded the Åsgard subsea compression system contract by Statoil. The contract value is approximately NOK 3.4 billion ($582.7 million).

Framo Engineering has contracted Aker Subsea for an umbilical for Total's CLOV development in Angolan deepwater block 17.

Aker Solutions has contracted MAN Diesel & Turbo Schweiz to supply four compressor units for Statoil Åsgard subsea compression project in the Norwegian Sea.

Bennex has contracted to supply subsea distribution systems to Kirinskoye field in the Russian Pacific Ocean.

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.