Subsea 7, a subsea engineering, construction and services company, has announced the award of a three-year frame agreement, with four one-year options, for six North Sea clients. The clients are Chevron North Sea Limited, Dana Petroleum (E&P) Limited, Hess Denmark…

Aker Solutions’ maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) business in Norway secured two contracts for work at North Sea fields operated by ConocoPhillips. The award comes shortly after Aker Solutions lost a bid to perform modification and maintenance services for Statoil’s…

GE Oil & Gas has been awarded what it claims is the first ever global maintenance agreement for an entire fleet of FPSOs owned by the world’s largest provider of FPSO vessels, SBM Offshore.  Under the agreement, GE Oil & Gas will…

Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum has started drilling the Maligan exploration well in Block SB307/SB308, offshore East Malaysia. The Maligan prospect is in shallow water and lies to the north of a major producing field in offshore East Malaysia. The…

Clough announced on Thursday that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has awarded a contract for the hook-up services on the Ichthys LNG Project Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Ichthys FPSO is a 336 metre long, permanently…

Clough announced on Wednesday that Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (SHI) has awarded a contract for hook-up services on the Ichthys LNG Project Central Processing Facility (CPF). The Ichthys CPF will become the world’s largest semi-submersible platform with a topsides…

Lamprell has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) and Hyundai Heavy Industries in connection with a potential partnership collaboration…

Keppel FELS, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has delivered Halul, a KFELS B Class jack-up rig, to Gulf Drilling International (GDI) of Qatar. According to Keppel, the rig was completed on January 21, 2016, which is…

Ophir Energy, an independent oil and gas company, and Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services provider, have entered into a non-binding Heads of Terms Agreement whereby Schlumberger will get a 40% economic interest in the Fortuna FLNG project, offshore Equatorial…

BW Offshore, a provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a one year contract extension for one of its vessels that operates offshore New Zealand. AWE Limited, an Australian oil and gas exploration…