Aker Solutions,
Oslo, has been awarded a $35 million contract for delivery of a deepwater drilling riser system to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The contract is for the delivery of a complete deepwater marine drilling riser system with buoyancy package and associated equipment. The 7,500-ft system will be used for a semisubmersible drilling rig that DSME is building. This is the fourth deepwater drilling riser contract DSME has awarded Aker Solutions this year. The marine drilling riser system will be manufactured and delivered out of Aker Solutions’ manufacturing center in Malaysia. Buoyancy modules will be manufactured at the same center’s recently opened buoyancy production unit by Aker Solutions subsidiary Phoenix Polymers International Ltd. Delivery of the drilling riser systems is scheduled for 2011.
Meanwhile, an Aker-designed offshore loading system has been used in the first offloading of crude oil from terminal to shuttle tanker in the Barents Sea. The system was installed on the FOIROT (fixed offshore ice-resistant offloading terminal) in Varandey oil field, allowing for the offshore transfer of crude oil onto highly sophisticated ice-class shuttle tankers designed for transporting oil in the sensitive arctic environment. Both the shuttle tanker Vasily Dinkov and the FOIROT terminal are equipped with the latest Aker Solutions bow and offloading systems designed for arctic conditions. The system also includes additional safety features for the protection of the extremely sensitive arctic environment. Aker Solutions has thus far received orders for bow loading systems for 12 arctic shuttle tankers. The FOIROT is owned by Russian oil company Lukoil, operator of Varandey field, and the Vasily Dinkov is owned by Sovcomflot.
Aker Solutions is a unit of Aker Solutions ASA, a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products, and integrated solutions to the oil and gas, refining and chemicals, mining and metals, and power generation industries.
Expro,
Aberdeen, has secured a major mechanical wireline contract from Total E&P Indonesia and completed a second topsides package for an international customer in Indonesia. The Total contract involves supplying five wireline units and performing specialized mechanical wireline services on Total’s wells off Kalimantan. Expro also completed work to engineer, supply, install, and commission a 44,000 b/d, single-life process module for a production topsides system to be installed on the undisclosed customer’s floating production, storage, and offloading vessel.
Meanwhile, Expro also has won a 5-year, £25 million contract with Total E&P UK Ltd. covering exclusive provision of slickline and well test services and ad hoc provision of other services, including drill stem testing, tubing-conveyed perforating, and cased hole logging on Total’s platforms and mobile drilling units in the UK North Sea.
Expro is a market leader in providing services and products that measure, improve, control, and process flow from high-value oil and gas wells.
CGGVeritas,
Paris, has been awarded a $140 million contract by Qatar Petroleum to undertake a large, ultrahigh-density, high-resolution onshore seismic survey. Work will begin near yearend and is expected to last about 30 months. The survey will cover the Dukhan field in Qatar that extends under desert plains, coastal salt flats, transition zones, and shallow-water areas. CGGVeritas will provide the full range of acquisition and processing services, deploying a 40,000-channel seismic crew, 3-D vertical seismic profile, and imaging services.
Meanwhile, CGGVeritas has opened its UK Center of Excellence, which combines its London and Crawley, UK, offices. Based in Crawley, near Gatwick airport, the new center is staffed by over 200 processing geophysicists. New and upgraded facilities include a state-of-the-art visualization center, visual meeting rooms, and the latest in IT infrastructure. The center hosts R&D teams working closely with processing groups to ensure the fast and efficient deployment of new technologies. The new center is also the EAME (Europe, Africa, and Middle East) headquarters for other key CGGVeritas business lines, including marine acquisition, data library, data services, and reservoir services.
CGGVeritas is a leading international pure-play geophysical company delivering a wide range of technologies, services, and equipment to its broad base of customers mainly throughout the global oil and gas industry.
Roxar ASA,
Stavanger, has won a 19.5 million kroner (Nor.) contract from Petrobras America to supply integrated reservoir sensors and multiphase measurement systems for installation in the US Gulf of Mexico’s Cascade and Chinook ultradeepwater oil fields. Petrobras America will install the Roxar subsea multiphase meter, which provides accurate and continuous online monitoring of flow rates of oil, water, and gas in subsea well streams. Roxar will also install a number of SenCorr SEPT combined sand erosion and pressure and temperature sensor systems to provide valuable real-time information on the subsea reservoir. Due to reservoir uncertainties, a phased development is underway with Phase 1 (two subsea wells in Cascade and one subsea well in Chinook) analyzing reservoir performance to ensure increased production and flow assurance in future stages.
Roxar provides innovative products and services that help achieve maximum performance from oil and gas reservoirs.
MacGregor Group,
Helsinki, has received an order from Finstaship to deliver two electrohydraulic subsea knuckle-jib cranes, each with a 150-tonne SWL active heave-compensated winch system The cranes will be fitted on the multiservice vessel Botnica and the icebreaker/tug/supply vessel Nordica. The new cranes will have a hook travel length of 3,000 m and a compensation speed of 120 m/min. In addition to the main winch, a second auxiliary high-speed winch will be installed. This winch also will have subsea capacity and active heave compensation. The cranes are scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2010 from MacGregor’s facilities in Kristiansand, Norway.
Finstaship provides and develops a versatile range of efficient offshore, icebreaking, fairway, ferry traffic, and ship management services for its customers. The primary market area is focused on the Baltic Sea and arctic regions.
MacGregor is a global market leader in engineering and service solutions for the maritime transportation and offshore industries.
Knight Oil Tools,
Lafayette, La., has promoted Jerome Lane to operations manager. Previously, he was a quality assurance/quality control pressure control specialist with Knight. He has worked in the oil industry for the past 30 years, specializing in blowout prevention and related pressure-control equipment. Lane studied marketing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Knight is the largest privately held rental and fishing tools business in the oil and gas industry.
Subsea 7 Inc.,
Cayman Islands, has announced that its Seven Seas flex/J-lay vessel has completed its first major installation project, conducted in StatoilHydro’s Yttergryta field in the Norwegian North Sea. The Seven Seas installed a 130 tonne pipeline end manifold, 25 tonne flowbase, and 6 km of dual-lay umbilical and 3-in. monoethylene glycol line along with three spools. The Seven Seas will complete mobilization at Dusavik, Norway, for its next project at the BC-10 oil field development in the Campos basin off Brazil. The vessel has been designed to perform highly specialized subsea pipeline laying, construction, and engineering work for the deepwater global offshore oil and gas industry and is capable of operating in water depths as great as 3,000 m. It is the fourth in a series of eight new vessels joining the Subsea 7 fleet during 2007-10.
Meanwhile, Subsea 7 has won the first contract for its new fabrication and spoolbase facility at Port Isabel, Tex. The subsea pipelay fabrication and installation contract was awarded by Marathon Oil Corp. and is valued at more than $45 million. The contract covers fabrication and installation of two 8-in. flowlines totaling 58 km in Marathon’s Droshky field development on Green Canyon Block 244 in Gulf of Mexico water depths ranging from 1,350 ft to 3,000 ft. Subsea 7’s full scope of work on the project includes project management, engineering, fabrication, and installation services associated with the subsea infrastructure, including the flowlines, pipeline end terminations, and risers. The pipeline will be fabricated at the company’s new fabrication and spoolbase facility at Port Isabel. Engineering work will be carried out from Subsea 7’s office in Houston. The offshore phase of the campaign will be carried out in the third quarter of 2009 and will be delivered by Subsea 7’s flagship rigid reeled pipelay vessel, the Seven Oceans.
Subsea 7 is one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies offering all the expertise and assets that make subsea, umbilical, riser, and flowline field development and operation possible.
