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Subsea 7 has received a contract from Total for the Lapa North East field in the presalt Santos Basin. The contract’s scope includes the transport, installation, and pre-commissioning of 22 mi of flexible pipelines and 12 mi of umbilical, connecting five wells to the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba. Offshore activities are set to start in 4Q 2019.

Apache has announced the extension of life-of-field contracts between its North Sea subsidiaries and PD&MS Group, Global E&C, and Wood Commissioning Services. The extensions cover the provision of ad-hoc design, engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning services across the Beryl and Forties fields. Apache, which has been working with the companies sinc…

Murphy Oil has contracted GATE Energy to provide facility commissioning for the King’s Quay development in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The project scope includes commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution, and offshore commissioning/ready-for-startup services. King’s Quay is an 80,000 BOPD facility anchored by the Khaleesi/Mormont and Samurai development…

Maria Moraeus Hanssen, COO and Deputy CEO of Wintershall Dea, will leave the company on 31 December to focus on other opportunities. Until that time, she will continue in her present role. She had previously served as CEO of DEA prior to its merger with WIntershall. Before joining DEA, she had worked as CEO of Engie E&P International and as head of the E&P business un…

Balltec won a contract from Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland to support decommissioning and removal of a platform with conductors in the North Sea. Balltec will supply 18 LiftLOK ball and taper lifting connectors to lift 30-in. diameter conductors during removal of a jacket in a single lift operation by the heavy-lift vessel Sleipnir. That vessel will then transpo…

Several SPE sections have received recognition for outstanding contributions to the association. Nine SPE sections have been awarded the 2019 SPE Presidential Award for Outstanding Section, the highest honor a section can receive. These sections form the highest-ranked 5% of SPE’s 203 sections around the world. Formerly known as the President’s Award for Section Excel…

James Fisher Offshore (JFO) has won a decommissioning project in the Middle East, a deal that covers the removal of a new offshore platform jacket in Saudi Arabia. The project requires two full spreads of abrasive cutting equipment to be mobilized in support of a regional contractor’s jacket removal program. JFO said the work will utilize a cutting solution that is ca…

Reliance awarded Intecsea, a subsidiary of Worley, with a project management consultancy (PMC) contract for its MJ Field deepwater gas and condensate project offshore India. Under the deal, Intecsea will provide PMC services for the development of Reliances’ subsea gas and condensate resource located in approximately 1000-m water depth in the MJ field. The contract co…

Clough, an Australian LNG engineering company, has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction deal for the loadout line trestle for the LNG Canada project in Kitimat, British Columbia. The contract, worth an estimated $40 billion, covers a liquefaction facility, a 670-km pipeline from Dawson Creek, and a marine terminal. Construction activities began l…

Capital drilling equipment company Henderson has named Chris Naquin as senior business development manager. Naquin has more than 28 years of experience in fabrication and rig building to the position. Prior to joining Henderson, he served as project manager for Sundowner Offshore and Nabors Industries and as owner of Advanced Rig Services and Applied Machinery Corp., …