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Acquisitions

Blue Water acquires Guyana-based Falcon Logistics

Blue Water acquired the Guyana-owned and operated Falcon Logistics Inc. The international transport and logistics company handles large volumes of cargo for the Oil and Gas sector into Guyana and with…

Energy

First successful docking at Al Zour refinery

In January a first ship has berthed to the offshore loading platform of Al Zour refinery in Kuwait to deliver the products necessary for its start-up. This operation is the…

Energy

Blue Water opens two new offices in the Middle East

Active in the Middle East since the mid-80s, Blue Water is opening two additional offices in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. This is to underline and strengthen the objective of servicing…

Construction

Record time delivery with Goldhofer

On the cconstruction site for the Dos Bocas Refinery in Tabasco, Mexico, the heavy haul company Pesado Transport moved precast concrete pipe racks to their final locations. In addition to…

Energy

Petrofac forms industry alliance

Petrofac, Repsol Sinopec Resources UK and TechnipFMC have formed an industry alliance which seeks to maximise the recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Under the…

Africa

Subsea 7 wins contract in Angola

Subsea 7 has been awarded a substantial contract by Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC). The contract is for the Sanha Lean Gas Connection (SLGC) project comprising the construction and…

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Contract

Jumbo Offshore breaks deep-water installation record

On behalf of TechnipFMC, Jumbo Offshore has completed the first phase of work on Energean’s Karish gas field offshore Israel in October. The scope of work included transport and installation…

Africa

Jumbo supports Subsea 7’s contracts in Angola

Jumbo has completed the first of two contracts supporting two of Subsea 7’s EPIC projects for Total in Angola: CLOV MPP and Zinia Phase 2. To complete the contracts, Jumbo…

Africa

Friends of the Earth challenges British Government investment in Mozambique gas project

Friends of the Earth has issued a legal challenge to the decision by the Department of Trade to invest USD 1 billion in a major gas project off the coast…

Contract

Mammoet secures biggest ever contract for the Arctic LNG 2 project

Technip-led joint venture NovArctic in cooperation with Saipem and NIPIgas has choosen Mammoet as a contractor for the Arctic LNG 2 project. Over the course of four years, Mammoet will…

Construction

Subsea 7 wins UK offshore contract

Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) for the Blythe and Vulcan Satellites field development, located in the UK sector of the southern North…

Europe

Kroustalelis Special Transport trusts Goldhofer heavy-duty modules

Greek special transport company, Kroustalelis, relied on a Goldhofer THP/LTSO heavy-duty combination as a trailer combination to transport a 67-meter-long naphtha splitter and an equally long deisohexanizer from the production…

Contract

Osprey signs shipbuilding contract worth £3m

The UK-based specialist logistics firm, Osprey Group, has recently signed a £3m shipbuilding contract for two new offshore barges, Osprey Bouwer and Osprey Fabrique. Ideal for work supporting the offshore…

Africa

SPIE Oil & Gas Services names new Managing Director

European provider of multi-technical services in the fields of energy and communications, SPIE Oil & Gas Services, has announced the appointment of Christophe Bernhard as Managing Director, succeeding Yves Compañy,…

Heavy lift

Al Faris transports 19 vessels for a crude-oil production facility in Abu Dhabi.

Over a period of 3 months, Al Faris has transported 19 various vessels covering a distance of 150 km for a crude-oil production facility in Abu Dhabi. The heavy lift…

Africa

New oil refinery project in Algeria

Algerian Sonatrach has signed a contract with Tecnicas Reunidas & Samsung Engineering Group for the construction of the Hasse Messaoud oil refinery to be built at Haoud El Hamra. Its…

Carrier

New addition to Roll Group fleet

Roll Group has added another Module Carrier into their fleet. With a length of 146m, a width of 32m and 12,285t deadweight, this vessel is slightly smaller than the current…

Gantry Cranes

Al Faris uses Enerpac SBL900 gantry system

One of the leading Middle Eastern heavy lifting company, Al Faris Group, has been recently contracted to provide complete logistics from loading to the transportation of over-sized oil refinery equipment…

Energy

Successful start-up of Egyptian Refinery

Qatar Petroleum has announced the successful start-up of the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) Refinery project located in Mostorod, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo. Qatar Petroleum owns 38.1% in the…

Oil & gas

BP sells its oil assets in Egypt

BP has announced the sell of its interests in Gulf of Suez oil concessions in Egypt to Dubai-based Dragon Oil, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC).…

Africa

Eiffage and Saipem will build a gas terminal for BP

Eiffage Génie Civil Marine, pilot of a consortium with Saipem, has been appointed by BP to perform the EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract for the Hub/Terminal of the…

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