Daewoo and Aker Solutions to share Topsides contract Statoil and its partners Total and Det norske selected a combination of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) from South Korea with the local engineering company Aker Solutions to design and build the topsides of the Dagny offshore platform project in Norway. (more…)
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24
Jan
2013
Total and CNOOC to select Samsung for Egina FPSO
Samsung benefits from Nigeria local content regulation The french major Total and its partners, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC), are in the process to approve Samsung Heavy Industries (Samsung) offer for Egina new-build floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Egina project is (more…)
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03
Jul
2012
Shell and ExxonMobil awards Fram FPSO to SBM
SBM will supply, lease and operate a converted FPSO The Fram field is located in United Kingdom continental Shelf (UKCS) including the Blocks 29/3c, 29/4c, 29/8a and 29/9c in the central North Sea, around 220 km east of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, in a water depth of approximately 97 m. These (more…)
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20
Jun
2012
Turret
Definition Turret is the major component of a vessel or any floating production unit (FPSO, FPO) to which the risers coming from the seabed are connected. Turret name refers the rotating function of this large equipment to facilitate the rotation of the vessel according to winds, waves and dominating current while (more…)
Read moreStatoil validated concept for $4 billion Dagny and Eirin oil and gas fields development Partners and actual interests in Dagny are split between: - Statoil 58.5% - ExxonMobil 33% - Total 6.5% - Det norske oljeselskap 2%. The final distribution of ownership interests will be subject to negotiations in (more…)
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05
Jun
2012
“FPSO”
Definition FPSO is the acronym of Floating Production Storage and Offloading. A FPSO unit is a floating vessel used in the oil and gas industry to treat the oil and gas and condensates offshore before their transportation to the land by pipeline or shuttle vessels. Comments The FPSO is a multi-functions vessel for (more…)
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30
May
2012
“FSO”
Definition FSO is the acronym of Floating Storage and Offloading used to describe the offshore operation between the oil and gas processing and the export to the shore by pipeline or shuttle tankers. Comments Originally, all the offshore platforms used to sit on the seabed, but as exploration and production moved (more…)
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