Offshore

Water Abrasive System Used To Cut Pipe And Concrete In Water As Deep As 1,700 Feet

Dismantling decommissioned oil-drilling platforms, wells and pipelines requires precision demolition techniques. Gulf Coast specialty oil service contractor Proserv Offshore, a unit of Norwegian-based Proserv Group, has become known in the industry for using high-pressure, water-abrasive cutting technologies—also known as cold-cutting—to help remove a variety of oil and gas facilities.

August 2010 Vol. 237 No. 8

Excelerate Completes 42nd Ship-to-Ship Transfer

Excelerate Energy L.P. reports that it has now completed more than 40 LNG STS operations, transferring more than 5 million cubic meters of LNG.

July 2010 Vol. 237 No. 7

Weatherford Helps Cut Commissioning Costs In Deepwater Field Off Ghana

Weatherford Pipeline & Specialty Services group was awarded a contract by Technip for pre-commissioning and commissioning services on the Jubilee field development off West Africa.

April 2010 Vol. 237 No. 4

Customized Isolation Operation Solves North Sea Riser Repair

TDW Offshore Services AS has completed an innovative low-pressure isolation operation on an export pipeline riser in the North Sea. The work results from a 2007 incident when a passing vessel collided with the southeast face of a satellite platform jacket, damaging the 12-inch export riser.

April 2010 Vol. 237 No. 4

Subsea 7 Completes Diverless Pipeline Repair Off Angola

Subsea 7 Inc. repaired the Girassol Pipeline in the Girassol field, 210 km northwest of Luanda, Angola for Total E&P Angola last year. The project was a diverless operation in 1,350 meters of water. A design competition by Total resulted in Subsea 7 being awarded a contract for the design, manufacture, testing and operation of a deepwater pipeline repair system, which it then used to repair a 12-inch water-injection pipeline.

April 2010 Vol. 237 No. 4

World’s First Gravity-Based LNG Terminal Supplies Gas To Italy

In October 2009, Adriatic LNG placed the world’s first gravity–based LNG terminal into service. Adriatic LNG is a joint venture between Qatar Terminal Limited (45%), a 100%-owned Qatar Petroleum subsidiary, ExxonMobil Italiana Gas (45%) and Edison SpA (10%).

April 2010 Vol. 237 No. 4

Corus Awarded Shetlands Gas Field Pipeline Contract

Corus has received a letter of award worth nearly £200 million from Total E&P UK Ltd. regarding a pipeline to serve the Laggan-Tormore offshore gas field development in the region West of the Shetlands.

March 2010 Vol. 237 No. 3

Brazil’s First Floating LNG Facility Planned

Technip, in association with JGC Corp. and Modec Inc., was awarded a lump sum contract by Petrobras for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a proposed floating LNG (FLNG) project.

February 2010 Vol. 237 No. 2

McDermott Acquires Interests In Construction Vessels

J. Ray McDermott, S.A., a subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc. has finalized a transaction with Oceanteam ASA for the construction vessel, North Ocean 102 (NO102) and a new build vessel, North Ocean 105 (NO105).

February 2010 Vol. 237 No. 2

Woodside Contract Awarded To Fugro GOES

The Australian office of Fugro GEOS has been awarded a contract by Woodside Energy Ltd. to undertake a year-long metocean study 37 miles north of Broome in western Australia.

February 2010 Vol. 237 No. 2