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Technip wins subsea contract with Lundin

Technip was awarded by Lundin Petroleum a lump sum contract, worth approximately € 100 million, for the Brynhild field development. This field, previously known as Nemo, is located in the Norwegian North Sea a few kilometers East of the boundary to UK waters at a water depth of around 80 m.

 

North Sea decommissioning could cost £47.5 billion

A £47.5 billion business opportunity is opening up for companies in decommissioning the North Sea’s huge infrastructure of offshore oil and gas fields according to new research to be published by Deloitte and Douglas-Westwood.

 

QGC awards A$19.5 million gas fields contract

QGC Pty Limited, developer of the Queensland Curtis LNG Project, has awarded a A$19.5 million contract to Australian firm Transfield Services for gas field work in the Surat Basin of Queensland.

 

Global Leadership Award

Rex W. Tillerson has been recognised by UN Foundation as the recipient of 2011 Global Leadership Award.

 
 
 
 

McDermott wins Indian EPCI contract

McDermott International, Inc. has won an EPCI project for Oil and National Gas Corporation Ltd.’s (ONGC) Cluster 7 Development Programme.

 

WellDog wins tender from Arrow Energy

WellDog has won a tender to provide hundreds of downhole pressure gauge systems to Arrow Energy Pty Ltd over the next two years.

 

Shale drilling linked to tremors

Protesters are said to have scaled a drilling rig at Cuadrilla resource’s Bank site to protest at the shale gas exploration in the area.

 

Hammerfest LNG plant back online

Statoil has brought its LNG plant at Hammer fest back online after an earlier shutdown on October 14.

 
 

RasGas extends LNG supply agreement with EDF

RasGas has signed a long-term LNG supply agreement with EDF Trading for an annual contract quantity of up to 3.4 million tpy of LNG, equivalent to approximately 4.5 billion m3/yr of natural gas. It marks a further extension of a long-term relationship between RasGas and EDF Trading.

 

Micoperi to build Israeli LNG terminal

State-owned Israel Natural Gas Lines has reportedly signed a deal with Micoperi, the Italian marine contractor, to construct an offshore LNG terminal worth approximately US$ 140 million.

 

GDF reinforces presence in Asia Pacific region

Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ signed two agreements with China Investment Corporation (CIC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) illustrating the development strategy of GDF SUEZ in China and in the Asia-Pacific region.