The contract comprises naval architecture, structural engineering, accommodation and system engineering, including piping, electrical and instrumentation, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The work will be carried out with modern 3D model engineering systems to allow smooth continuation for developing the production information once the yard has been selected and fabrication starts. The vessel is primarily intended for decommissioning platforms, topsides and jackets in the offshore oil and gas fields, but will also be equipped for pipelaying and other offshore construction work. The ship will be 382 metres long, 117 metres wide and will be able to accommodate 577 persons.
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Deltamarin wins major design contract from Allseas
Switzerland-based Allseas Group has awarded the complete detailed design of their ‘Pieter Schelte’ project to the Finnish consulting and engineering company Deltamarin.
The contract comprises naval architecture, structural engineering, accommodation and system engineering, including piping, electrical and instrumentation, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The work will be carried out with modern 3D model engineering systems to allow smooth continuation for developing the production information once the yard has been selected and fabrication starts. The vessel is primarily intended for decommissioning platforms, topsides and jackets in the offshore oil and gas fields, but will also be equipped for pipelaying and other offshore construction work. The ship will be 382 metres long, 117 metres wide and will be able to accommodate 577 persons.Read More
The contract comprises naval architecture, structural engineering, accommodation and system engineering, including piping, electrical and instrumentation, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The work will be carried out with modern 3D model engineering systems to allow smooth continuation for developing the production information once the yard has been selected and fabrication starts. The vessel is primarily intended for decommissioning platforms, topsides and jackets in the offshore oil and gas fields, but will also be equipped for pipelaying and other offshore construction work. The ship will be 382 metres long, 117 metres wide and will be able to accommodate 577 persons.
Qatar set to start LNG deliveries to the UK
Qatar is set to consolidate its position as the world leader in the liquefied natural gas industry with the launch of the $13.2bn Qatargas 2 terminal next month.
The venture at Ras Laffan will be inaugurated by the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thanion April 6 and will supply gas to the South Hook terminal in Wales, UK. The terminal in Wales, jointly set up by Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil and Total, will be inaugurated by the Emir and Queen Elizabeth on May 12. Qatargas 2 is large enough to meet about 20 percent of the UK’s natural gas needs, Qatargas Operating Company CEO Faisal M al-Suwaidi said in comments on Thursday. The first LNG cargo from Qatargas 2 will reach South Hook in May and, on average, one LNG cargo will be dispatched to the UK from Qatargas 2 every three days. Suwaidi called Qatargas 2 a “huge” project, which will also be the world’s first fully integrated value chain LNG venture. He said Qatargas was well on course to achieve a production capacity of about 42m tonnes per year (tpy) within two to three years
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China to add 50 mln tons of oil refining capacity by 2010
China will complete the construction and expansion of several oil refining bases to achieve an annual refining capacity exceeding 50 million tons by 2010, according to information released from the 14th International Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) conference held in Haikou, Hainan Province.
By the end of 2010, two oil refining plants built since the beginning of 2008 will be completed. CNOOC's new plant in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, will have achieved an annual capacity of 12 million tons, while PetroChina's plant in Qinzhou, Guangxi Province, will have achieved an annual capacity of 10 million tons. Meanwhile, six expansion projects begun in 2008 will have achieved an estimated annual refining capacity of 31.5 million tons in total. Last year, China saw refining volume of crude oil reach 342.07 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%.Read More
By the end of 2010, two oil refining plants built since the beginning of 2008 will be completed. CNOOC's new plant in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, will have achieved an annual capacity of 12 million tons, while PetroChina's plant in Qinzhou, Guangxi Province, will have achieved an annual capacity of 10 million tons. Meanwhile, six expansion projects begun in 2008 will have achieved an estimated annual refining capacity of 31.5 million tons in total. Last year, China saw refining volume of crude oil reach 342.07 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%.
MIS to refurbish Saudi Aramco jackup SAR 201
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Maritime Industrial Services (OSE: MIS) has signed a contract with Saudi Aramco for refurbishment work on jackup SAR 201.
The work will begin in the first week of April when the rig arrives at MIS' Sharjah yard and is scheduled for completion by early August. The scope of the project covers major refurbishment work to be done to the accommodation units in addition to blasting and painting work to the legs, tank repairs and coatings and some major piping works. The project will also cover the inspection of the rig's spud cans, among other work, all within the framework of a five-year special periodical survey for a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU). Saudi Aramco has been a client of the MIS Group for over 20 years with several projects completed by MIS Sharjah and MIS Arabia in Saudi Arabia where MIS is partnered with two local Saudi companies. This project marks the first time that Aramco has commissioned a rig refurbishment project at MIS' Sharjah, UAE yard.Read More
The work will begin in the first week of April when the rig arrives at MIS' Sharjah yard and is scheduled for completion by early August. The scope of the project covers major refurbishment work to be done to the accommodation units in addition to blasting and painting work to the legs, tank repairs and coatings and some major piping works. The project will also cover the inspection of the rig's spud cans, among other work, all within the framework of a five-year special periodical survey for a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU). Saudi Aramco has been a client of the MIS Group for over 20 years with several projects completed by MIS Sharjah and MIS Arabia in Saudi Arabia where MIS is partnered with two local Saudi companies. This project marks the first time that Aramco has commissioned a rig refurbishment project at MIS' Sharjah, UAE yard.
World's first deep sea lab on chip
New marine sensor technologies devised by scientists in the United Kingdom have been tested on a research cruise in the Canary Islands and are now ready to be developed further for commercialization.
After nine months of the four-year, two million pounds project, researchers have developed the first of a new generation of miniaturized sensors to measure marine environments and have tested them at depths of 1,600 metres. “These sensors were dropped into the water strapped to a device which measures the temperature and salinity of the oceans as a function of depth, and the sensors measured the nitrate and nitrite concentrations which are important characteristics of ocean chemistry,” said Professor Hywel Morgan, from Southampton University’s School of Electronics & Computer Science. “Phosphate, iron and manganese can also be measured with this technology,” added Prof Morgan who was aided by Dr Matt Mowlem at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, southern England. Now that the researchers have established that the sensors are capable of measuring harsh environments, they will develop them further so that they can be deployed for months at a time. The project is funded by the UK’s Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council and has two aims: to develop lab on a chip chemical and biochemical analysers to detect nutrients and pollutants at the ultra-low concentrations found in the ocean; and to develop small chips to identify individual phytoplankton in the oceans.Read More
After nine months of the four-year, two million pounds project, researchers have developed the first of a new generation of miniaturized sensors to measure marine environments and have tested them at depths of 1,600 metres. “These sensors were dropped into the water strapped to a device which measures the temperature and salinity of the oceans as a function of depth, and the sensors measured the nitrate and nitrite concentrations which are important characteristics of ocean chemistry,” said Professor Hywel Morgan, from Southampton University’s School of Electronics & Computer Science. “Phosphate, iron and manganese can also be measured with this technology,” added Prof Morgan who was aided by Dr Matt Mowlem at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, southern England. Now that the researchers have established that the sensors are capable of measuring harsh environments, they will develop them further so that they can be deployed for months at a time. The project is funded by the UK’s Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council and has two aims: to develop lab on a chip chemical and biochemical analysers to detect nutrients and pollutants at the ultra-low concentrations found in the ocean; and to develop small chips to identify individual phytoplankton in the oceans.
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