Oil spill in Bay Jacques, Louisiana
The Coast Guard and local agencies are responding to a crude oil spill in Bay Jacques, Louisiana, Wednesday. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Houma watchstanders received notification from Summit Oil and Gas, LLC at 11:54 a.m. that a crude oil storage tank located in Bay Jacques developed a leak and caused an estimated 4,200 gallons of Louisiana crude oil to discharge, Tuesday. Tuesday, MSU Houma personnel arrived on scene and performed an assessment of the spill. MSU Houma incident management personnel are currently on scene along with OMI Environmental Solutions, the oil spill
Wison Launches Buoyant Tower Solutions with Storage
Wison Offshore & Marine has developed a new Buoyant Tower solution with condensate or oil storage, adopting Wison’s proprietary Buoyant Tower technology. This floating concept provides a new economic and reliable option for the oil and gas development in the shallow to medium-depth waters. Originally invented by Ed Horton and Lyle Finn, the Buoyant Tower technology was first applied to BPZ CX-15 project offshore Peru when both Ed and Lyle worked for Horton Wison Deepwater Inc. (HWD), now renamed as Wison Offshore Technology Inc. with 130+ patents originated by Ed Horton and his
Global Maritime Completes Njord A Disconnection and Tow to Shore
from the Njord field. The Njord A platform arrived safely in Klosterfjorden on the August 23, where a handover to Kværner was achieved. The 346 nautical-mile journey was carried out by Global Maritime, on behalf of the operator Statoil. The news follows the successful towing of the oil storage and offloading vessel Njord B by Global Maritime to Sterkoder, Kristiansund earlier this summer. Global Maritime was responsible for the project management, engineering, design, fabrication and procurement of equipment, as well as all offshore management activities for the Njord A and
NYK: Oil Production Starts at Third FPSO Unit
further advance its expertise in the FPSO business by dispatching technical staff to this project as well as FPSO Cidade de Paraty. Outline of FPSO Oil processing capacity 150,000 barrels of oil per day Gas processing capacity 6 million cubic meters per day Oil storage capacity 1.6 million barrels Water injection capabilities 200,000 barrels per day Mooring type Spread moorin
Custom ROV Solution for Stinger Technology
Stinger Technology AS has taken delivery of a customized Seaeye Falcon ROV to be used for offshore subsea operations under a contract awarded by Dong Energy. The assignment includes environmental sampling and inspection inside the oil storage tank of the Siri platform. Siri is located in block 5604/20 in the north-western part of Denmark’s North Sea sector, about 220 kilometers off the Danish coast. Production on the Siri platform first started in 1999. DONG Energy is 100 percent licensee of the Siri licence. The Siri platform is also host for the nearby Nini, Nini East, Cecilie
Offshore Brazil: Production Starts at FPSO Unit
know-how to expand and develop its business in the offshore industry, which is expected to grow remarkably. - Outline of FPSO Oil processing capacity 150,000 barrels of oil per day Gas processing capacity 6 million cubic meters per day Oil storage capacity 1.6 million barrels Water injection capabilities 200,000 barrels per day Mooring type Spread mooring *
FPSO Charter Bussiness for Offshore Brazil Oil Fields
the fourth quarter of 2017. The Project is the fourth occasion under which the Companies havecollaborated to operate FPSOs in Brazil. Outline of the FPSO Oil processing capacity 150,000 barrels per day Gas processing capacity 176 million cubic feet per day Oil storage capacity 1,600,000 barrels Mooring type Spread mooring (at a depth of 765 meters) Shareholders of MV29 MODEC, Inc. 29.4% Mitsui & Co., Ltd. 32.4% Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. 20.6% Marubeni
Drydocks World wins ADIPEC Awards
for SOLAN Project The ADIPEC Category 1 - Best Oil & Gas Project Award recognizes a project that showcases regional innovation through an outstanding original approach. Drydocks World has received the Best Oil & Gas Project award for the Construction of World's Deepest and Largest Subsea Oil Storage facility consisting of a 45m x 45m x 25m structural tank connected with pile sleeves and mud mats weighing a total of 10,150 tonnes. The storage facility was towed to a defined offshore location in UAE waters for loading and floated over onto a heavy lift transportation vessel for sail away to
Barents Sea Oil Terminal: Development Concept Chosen
a subsea production system located in about 380 metres of water. The production is estimated at almost 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The oil will be transported through a 280-kilometre pipeline from Skrugard to Veidnes outside Honningsvåg. It will be piped directly to an oil storage facility and stored in two mountain caverns. The oil will be sent from there in a pipeline to the quay for transportation by tankers. Some 50-100 crude tankers per year are estimated to call at the terminal. "This is part of the ambition of making Northern Norway the country's next
February 2024
