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Saipem: awarded FPSO contracts in Angola worth more than $4 billion
Saipem has been awarded two contracts in Angola by Total, for a combined total of more than $4 billion.

GE Expands Distributed Power Presence in Brazil’s Offshore Sector
Expanding its role as a leading energy technology supplier for Brazil’s offshore oil and gas sector, GE’s (NYSE: GE) Distributed Power business today announced it will supply four additional LM2500+G4 aeroderivative gas turbine generators to supply 85 megawatts (MW) of reliable on-site electricity for a new floating oil and gas production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel—the Cidade de Caraguatatuba MV-27.

Bumi Armada Receives Letter Of Intent For An FPSO From Eni For Block 15/06, Angola
Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad (“Bumi Armada”) has received a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) from eni Angola S.p.A (“eni Angola”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of eni S.p.A. the Italian multinational oil and gas company, wherein eni Angola has stated its intention to award a contract for the chartering, operation and maintenance of a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (“FPSO”) (the “Contract”), to a consortium of Bumi Armada Offshore Holdings Limited (BAOHL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bumi Armada) and Angoil Bumi JV Limitada (ABJL*) for deployment at Block 15/06, East Hub located offshore Angola.

VAALCO Energy Provides Update On Operations
VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EGY) today provided the following update on recent activities.

Start-up of Platform P-58 in Parque das Baleias
Petrobras announces that the production platform P-58 started-up operation this Monday (03/17/14) in the complex known as Parque das Baleias, off the coast of Espírito Santo state in Campos Basin, in line with the company’s 2014-2018 Business and Management Plan, through the well 7-BFR-7-ESS, a pre-salt reservoir producer, with an excellent productivity, as expected.

Keppel secures contracts worth S$140 million
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd's (Keppel O&M) subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard), Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), and Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd (Keppel Nantong) have secured contracts worth a total of about S$140 million.

Ichthys LNG Project Celebrates FPSO Keel Laying
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has celebrated a key milestone for its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility.

The first block of the keel was placed during a ceremony in the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea, where the FPSO is being constructed.

FPSO hull launch marks more than one million hours incident free on Dana’s Western Isles Project
Dana Petroleum has recently celebrated a milestone achievement on its flagship Western Isles Development Project (WIDP) with the hull launch of the floating production, storage offloading vessel (FPSO) in China.

Bumi Armada Bids Bon Voyage To FPSO Armada Claire, Sets Sail For Australia
Malaysia-based international oil and gas offshore oilfield services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad, today launched its Floating Production, Supply and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, the Armada Claire. The Armada Claire is owned and operated by Bumi Armada. The vessel will operate in block WA-49-L of the Balnaves Field, north-west Australia which is owned and operated by Apache Energy Ltd (Apache).

Deltamarin designs FPSO unit for Bumi Armada
Deltamarin strengthens its position in the offshore oil and gas industry by signing a contract with Bumi Armada, for the basic design of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit.