Engineering

TechnipFMC secures Ghana onshore facilities construction work

March 21, 2017 | Construction & Installation, Engineering, Ghana

Paris, France |  –  TechnipFMC, a global leader in oil and gas projects, technologies, systems and services has been selected as project manager for construction work on the onshore receiving facilities associated with Ghana’s Offshore Cape Three points project. In a statement on its website on Tuesday, the engineering major said it would be carrying out supply, construction and commissioning works for Eni Ghana E&P, a joint venture vehicle comprising Eni, Vitol Upstream Ghana and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. The facilities, which will be located in …

Nigeria’s Aveon Offshore wins offloading buoy contract from NOV

November 11, 2014 | Construction & Installation, Engineering, Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria  | – Aveon Offshore Limited, a Nigerian engineering and fabrication company, has been awarded a contract by National Oilwell Varco Nigeria for the fabrication of an offloading buoy as part of the package for the Egina OLT contract for Total Upstream Nigeria. The contract, which was awarded in March 2014, for the fabrication of a 900 ton offloading buoy includes the fabrication of the 700 ton buoy hull, installation and integration of a 200 ton turret and the launching and pre-commissioning of the completed …

Foster Wheeler JV secures Hamada onshore FEED contract in Libya

July 18, 2014 | Contracts, Engineering, Libya

Zug, Switzerland | – Global Engineering and Construction Group, a subsidiary of leading engineering conglomerate Foster Wheeler, in a joint venture with Taknia Libya Engineering Company, has won a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Nafusah Oil Operations, Libyan branch for an onshore oilfield development. The Area 47 Development Project in Libya is located in the Hamada region, about 200 km south of Tripoli, in the Ghadames Basin. The Foster Wheeler contract value was not disclosed and will be included in the company’s second-quarter 2014 …

Samsung Engineering wins $800 million Algeria contract

February 17, 2014 | Construction & Installation, Engineering

South Korean contractor will build gas processing facilities at Algeria’s Timimoun field Algiers, Algeria – Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. has signed the Algeria Timimoun field development project worth US$ 800 million with Groupement Timimoun (GTIM), a joint venture between Sonatrach, Total and Cepsa. The signing ceremony was held in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, with the attendance of Samsung engineering’s President and Chief Executive Officer Park Choong-Heum and Sonatrach’s President and Chief Executive Officer Abdelhamid Zerguine. The Timimoun field development project is located 800 km …

Amec wins Nexen North Sea deal

January 06, 2014 | Contracts, Engineering

London – Aberdeen-based UK services provider Amec has secured a six-year engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services contract with Nexen Petroleum for the explorer’s North Sea offshore assets. The six-year contract with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation-owned explorer comes with two two-year extension options. Amec’s managing director for brownfield and asset management business in Europe Alan Johnstone said the deal would build upon the existing long-term relationship between the two companies, who collaborated on the hook-up and commissioning of the Buzzard production platform in …

Wood Group Kenny wins EPMS contract for Ibhubesi gas project

September 13, 2013 | Contracts, Engineering

Wood Group’s subsidiary Wood Group Kenny (WGK) Australia announced Thursday that it has been awarded a contract to provide engineering and project management services to Sunbird Energy Ltd for the Ibhubesi gas project, off the west coast of South Africa. The initial phase of WGK’s work involves the concept and definition phases, with the objective of moving the project into front end engineering design (FEED) in 1Q 2014. The project is likely to include a subsea gathering system, an offshore processing facility, a subsea pipeline, approximately …

Technip awarded the major Moho Nord Subsea project in Congo

August 07, 2013 | Construction & Installation, Contracts, Engineering

Technip was awarded by Total E&P Congo a major lump-sum contract for the engineering, procurement, supply, construction, installation (EPSCI) and pre-commissioning for the Moho Nord development project. This project is located approximately 75 kilometres off the coast of the Republic of the Congo, at water depths ranging from 650 to 1,100 metres. This project consists of two developments, the Moho Phase 1bis and Moho Nord, with first oils being respectively expected in 2015 and 2016. The Moho Nord development, which will be tied back to a …

Wood Group wins engineering contract with BP Angola

August 07, 2013 | Africa, Contracts, Engineering

Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has recently been awarded a new contract containing two Engineering Services scopes with BP Angola under the BP Global agreement awarded to WGK in 2007. The contract involves Subsea Operations Support: one is for work associated with the Block 18 Greater Plutonio Operations group; the other is for work associated with Block 31 PSVM (Plutao, Saturno, Venus and Marte fields) Operations Group. The $18m contract secures the provision of Wood Group Kenny’s Subsea Engineering and Project Management Services (EPMS) for an …