Shell, COSCO Ink Appomattox Platform Transportation Deal
COSCO Shipping Company Limited (COSCOL) signed a contract with Shell Offshore Inc. on 6 July 2015, for the transportation of the Appomattox semi-submersible offshore platform hull from South Korea to Ingleside, Texas. This contract was awarded as part of an Enterprise frame agreement between Shell and COSCOL. Shell’s 41,165 metric ton hull will be transported on COSCOL’s new-building 98,000 deadweight ton vessel “Guang Hua Kou”. The “Guang Hua Kou” is currently under construction at the COMEC shipyard in Guangzhou, China and expected to be delivered in to service late 2016.
Boskalis Wins Huge Offshore Philippines Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster wins a Shell Philippines Exploration contract to install an offshore Depletion Compression Platform. The contract to be executed for the Malampaya Project off the coast of Palawan Island, in the Republic of the Philippines, includes seabed preparation, rock installation, platform transportation and installation work and has a contract value of approximately US$ 60-million. The project relates to the expansion of the Malampaya Gas Field by means of an additional compressor platform next to the existing gas production platform.
Saipem Wins Egyptian, North Sea, Russian Contracts
Saipem has been awarded new E&C Offshore contracts in Egypt, in the North Sea and in Russia, worth in excess of $1 billion. In Egypt, Burullus Gas Company awarded Saipem the EPIC contract for new subsea developments in the area of the West Delta Deep Marine Concession, located about 90 km offshore the Northwest Nile delta, at water depths between 400 and 1,000 m. The development encompasses the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of a total of seven new subsea wellheads and relevant infrastructures, umbilicals and flowlines.
