Projects

SBM Offshore will supply and lease a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) to Shell Offshore for its Stones development project in the Gulf of Mexico.

IHC Merwede has announced that it has signed two new contracts for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) delivery of offloading system packages for five floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels.

Weir Minerals Canada has opened a new 19,000 square-foot service and distribution operation in Fort McMurray to support customers in the Athabasca Oil Sands in Canada. Weir Minerals Canada is pleased to announce that the Weir Minerals Canada Fort McMurray service and distribution operation has been relocated to a new facility in the MacKenzie Industrial Park.

Fluor Corporation has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for Sasol’s world-scale ethane cracker and associated derivative chemicals facility at its Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Louisiana.

Subsea 7 S.A. has been awarded a contract with a value of approximately US$400 million from Petrobras. The contract is for the operation of the Pipe Lay Support Vessel (PLSV) Normand Seven on a day rate basis for around five years, with operations starting in the fourth quarter of this year. The vessel has operated for Petrobras for several years and is currently under contract with this client.

Skanska has been awarded a construction contract to expand a thermal power plant for a confidential client in Brazil.

Piedmont Natural Gas plans to relocate its 36 employees in Rockingham, North Carolina to a newly renovated, LEED-certified facility in Rockingham West Industrial Park.

Metso will deliver a significant order consisting of 38 feeders for the major Mexican copper mine Buenavista del Cobre, owned by Grupo Mexico.

BP announced has completed the commissioning and start-up of its new 250,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit at the Whiting Refinery, marking a major milestone in the multi-billion dollar upgrade of the facility in Northwest Indiana. “The safe start-up of this large sophisticated crude-processing unit at the Whiting Refinery has returned the refinery to its nameplate processing capability of 413,000 barrels per day — initially of mostly light, sweet crude — and paved the way for the remaining upgrades to the plant to be brought on-line”, said Iain Conn, chief executive of BP’s refining and marketing segment.

The Hyundai-Wison consortium has selected Technip to supply proprietary technology as well as engineering and procurement services for its two hydrogen reformers in Venezuela.