Express Engineering to supply hybrid components to Aker Solutions
2008.08.26 -
Contracts
North East based precision engineering specialist, Express Engineering has secured a £2 million plus deal for the turnkey supply of hybrid penetrator components for global engineering company Aker Solutions. The contract extends the Tyneside company’s run of new business success in the oil and gas sector which has seen the Team Valley based operation expand its workforce by around 8% to 125, take on four new apprentices and invest £500,000 in new equipment. After the signing of this latest agreement William Barclay, Head of Sales with Express Engineering, said: “This demonstrates the continued confidence which Aker Solutions has in our products and services and underpins our accelerated growth plans in the North East to increase our capacity and capability to support the oil and gas Industry.” Aker Solutions is a leading global provider of engineering services, technology products and integrated solutions, providing sub-sea systems for energy production.
Cameron (NYSE: CAM) has signed a three-year worldwide preferred supplier agreement with Schlumberger Integrated Project Management (IPM) for the supply of a wide range of flow equipment products and services. As part of the agreement, Cameron will provide Schlumberger IPM with all surface, subsea, drilling, measurement, compression and downstream equipment on a worldwide basis.
ClampOn has been awarded a contract for delivery of five subsea ClampOn DSP Leak Monitors to the Tampen Link project in the Norwegian sector in the North Sea (Sept 07). ClampOn will supply its ultrasonic non-intrusive acoustic Leak Monitors to Technip Norge AS on behalf of Statoil. The Leak Monitors will be retrofitted on two 20” gas valves on the seabed to verify/disprove through-valve gas leakage. These valves are currently open and they will be shut to close off the bypass alternative.
Helix Energy Solutions (NYSE: HLX) announced today that it has received a Letter of Intent ("LOI") for the installation of the subsea infrastructure for the VIC/P44 Stage 2 Development project in the Otway Basin offshore Australia. Participants in the VIC/P44 permit are Santos Limited (Operator) 50%, Peedamullah Petroleum Pty Ltd (Australian Worldwide Exploration) 25% and Mitsui E&P Australia Pty Ltd. 25%.
Velosi Limited Velosi or the Group, a provider of asset integrity and HSE services to a number of major national and multinational oil and gas companies, is pleased to announce that it has been re-awarded a contract from Mobil Producing Nigeria, for the next three years with an option to extend for a further one year.
Fugro has been awarded a contract to perform a detailed marine survey in the Mediterranean Sea to select the best route for the GALSI gas pipeline from Algeria to Southern Sardinia and then from Northern Sardinia to the mainland of Italy. The contract value is approximately EUR 18 million.
