Tag: offshore oil and gas

Technip-Coflexip has signed a joint venture agreement with Sonangol for the creation of a new company to manufacture subsea umbilicals.

British engineering firm AMEC PLC has said that a joint venture in which it is a partner had signed a GBP 750 million pound seven-year deal to provide support services to North Sea oil producer Shell Expro.

The plan for development and operation of Statoil's Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea was approved on 7 March by the Norwegian Storting (parliament).

FMC Technologies has announced that its FMC Energy Systems business has been awarded contracts valued at USD 16 million to supply sub-sea production solutions for Petrobras and Halliburton KBR offshore Brazil.

The Norwegian offshore company DSND Subsea and Halliburton Subsea have signed a letter of intent stating that they intend to merge their underwater activities from 1 January 2002.

BP has announced an agreement with Nexen Petroleum USA Inc. that will bring BP's Aspen (Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico) discovery into production by the end of this year.

Malaysian oil and gas services firm Crest Petroleum Bhd has won a USD 79 million contract to instal offshore pipelines for state oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas).

Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina has signed new oil and gas contracts with BP, Conoco and Amerada Hess, a Pertamina official has said.

Pioneering development by Sandvik Steel and by key customers in the offshore oil and gas industries has seen Sandvik's duplex and super duplex stainless steels become the industry standard for hydraulic tubes in drilling risers, which provide the link between drilling platforms and equipment on the seabed.

PT Brown & Root Indonesia, an affiliate of Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a business unit of Halliburton Company, has won a contract to provide project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services for the Conoco Belanak floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).