Supplier Contracts
Talisman Energy has awarded Aker Kvaerner a service contract to provide personnel and equipment for well intervention services on the Norwegian continental shelf — including the Gyda, Varg, Yme and Rev fields — a job worth NOK60 million ($10 million). 
Oil company BP has awarded Paris-based contractor Technip the €90 million job of engineering and delivering flexible pipes to the Skarv floating production ship in the North Sea. 
Sub-sea contractor Subsea 7 has won a double-bill Norsk Hydro contract worth $340 million for engineering, procuerment installation and commissioning at Vega, Vega South and the Troll 02 fields off southwest Norway. 
ARC Energy (ARC) and Energy World Corporation (EWC) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop an LNG business focused on the domestic Western Australian gas market.
California Oil & Gas Corp. reports Louisiana gas sales and final approval for Chilean project May 11, 2007
California Oil & Gas Corp. announces that the Haas-Hirsch #1 (Krotz Springs Unit Well #60) has been completed in the lower of two potential zones. Nine feet of perforations over the 16 feet of log indicated pay in the Second Cockfield zone flowed at rates of approximately 900 mcf of gas per day during clean-up, with no water.
Linde “re-liquefies” way onto five Samsung LNG carriers May 10, 2007
German refrigeration specialist, Linde Group, has won a $50 million order from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries for “on-board, boil-off gas reliquefaction” plant on five carriers of liquefied natural gas, or LNG. 
U.K.-based Rusia player, Matra, has hired a rig to a drill a $4.5-million well into the Sokolovskaya prospect in Siberia, it was learned Thursday.
Grenland yard gains in Troll build-up May 9, 2007
Toensberg-, Norway based Grenland Group has penned a tentative deal with FMC Technologies, Kongsberg, to build, assemble and test a large sub-sea template bound for the Troll field. 
Cheniere Energy’s wholly-owned subsidiary Cheniere Marketing Inc. (Cheniere Marketing) and Gaz de France International Trading S.A.S. (GDF Trading), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gaz de France, have entered into a pair of Transatlantic Option Agreements to establish a framework of sales and purchases of LNG into the European and North American markets. 
Statoil has secured all the valves it’ll need for the next five to seven years after signing 17 frame agreements with suppliers worth NOK2 billion ($336.1 million), the Norwegian state income-earner said Monday. 
Keppel Shipyard has won contracts to convert two floating production storage and offloading vessels, or FPSOs, owned by SBM Holdings Inc. and Emas Offshore Construction and Production. 
Norway-based liquefied natural gas carrier Golar LNG has won two charters with Brazilian oil company Petrobras for the use of Golar Winter and Golar Spirit as floating LNG storage and re-gasification vessels. 
Norway-based drilling contractor Seadrill has found work for its jack-up rig West Titania in Tunisia, in a contract award for Candax Energy Inc., it was announced Monday. 
Century-old offshore support company, Cape, has won a “significant” contract with John Wood Group as part of Shell’s £350-million ($702-million) overhaul of three onshore installations. 
Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited has received a contract from Saipem (43% owned by Eni), for the design and construction of an Iced Strengthened Pipe Lay Vessel of DP3 class. The 290 m long vessel, with a molded breadth of 39 m, will be built under the American Bureau of Shipping classification. |
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