Drilling & production - 21 May 2014

Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard has secured a contract to build a tailor-made jack-up rig for Hercules North Sea Ltd.

Strainstall’s Vessel Motion Monitoring System has been installed on a vessel running trials for the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator programme.

Subsea 7 has been awarded its largest UK EPIC services contract, valued in excess of US$ 460 million.

Claxton has won a major contract to provide centralisers for the Martin Linge development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

API comments on the NDPC report that says Bakken crude is like other light crudes and meets current safety requirements for rail shipment.

PT Pertamina has selected Axens to conduct a study for the moderisation and capacity expansion of the Plaju refinery, in South Sumatra.

A new study from the North Dakota Petroleum Council has show that Bakken consistency is similar to other light sweet crudes.

EcoStim to use Fotech’s Helios DAS technology for field management operations.

Hess Corporation celebrated the recently completed expansion of the Tioga Gas Plant on 19 May.

Production from a subsea template at the Snorre B platform was shut down following the discovery of an abnormal erosion of mass under the template.

The QuantArray is a molecular microbiological method that provides accurate and simultaneous quantification of key organisms and functional genes involved in MIC and oilfield souring.

Oilfield services company, Expro, has won the President’s Award in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2014.

McDermott has signed a lease agreement for the exclusive right to operate a spoolbase and marine operations base in the Port of Gulfport.