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Massy Wood Group wins $250 million BP contract in Trinidad & Tobago
Massy Wood Group has been awarded a five year contract, with a potential value of up to $250 million, by BP to provide services to its operations in Trinidad & Tobago.

FPSO Petrojarl I dry-docked at Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam for EPC Redeployment Upgrade
After four months of preliminary work alongside, FPSO Petrojarl I moved on April 16, 2015 into Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam’s 307m long x 47 m wide dry dock no 8 for work to the hull. In all, the vessel will spend a year at DSR before heading off to the South Atlantic. The Teekay managed FPSO arrived at Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam in January 2015.

Subsea 7 S.A. awarded contract offshore Brazil
Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs: SUBC) has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD$200 million with a duration of approximately two years. The contract is for the installation of flexible lines for Petrobras' projects using Subsea 7's construction and flex-lay vessel Seven Seas, on a day-rate basis. The vessel has been operating for Petrobras under a similar day-rate contract since 2013 and will commence the new contract in direct continuation to the current one.

MODEC, Mitsui, MOL and Marubeni to Proceed with the Deepwater FPSO Charter Project for Tartaruga Verde & Tartaruga Mestiça Oil F
MODEC, Inc. (“MODEC,” head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; president: Toshiro Miyazaki), Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui,” head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; president: Tatsuo Yasunaga), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (“MOL,” head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; president: Koichi Muto) and Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni,” head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; president: Fumiya Kokubu) have agreed that Mitsui, MOL and Marubeni will invest in a long-term charter business (“the Project”) currently promoted by MODEC for the purpose of providing a floating production, storage, and offloading system (“the FPSO”) for use in the Tartaruga Verde and Tartaruga Mestiça oil fields off the coast of Brazil. The above four companies (“the Companies”) have entered into related agreements today.

McDermott Awarded SURF Installation Scope for Atlanta Early Production System
McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) announced that the consortium between McDermott and a consortium partner has been awarded the SURF engineering, product supply and installation scope for the Atlanta Early Production System (EPS) in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil by Brazilian exploration and production company Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção S.A. (QGEP).

Oil and gas discovery at Zebedee, Falkland Islands
Premier is pleased to announce that the Zebedee well (14/15b-5) in PL004b (Premier 36 per cent equity) discovered 81 feet of net oil-bearing reservoir and 55 feet of net gas-bearing reservoir.

Start-up of platform P-61 in Papa Terra field
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras announces the start-up of platform P-61 in Papa Terra field, in the southern tip of Campos Basin, 110km off the coast of Brazil and at a water depth (distance between water surface and sea floor) ranging from 400 to 1,400 meters.

Libra Consortium completes the drilling of the second appraisal well
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the Libra consortium has completed the drilling of the extension well 3-BRSA-1267-RJS/3-BRSA-1267A-RJS (3-RJS-735/735A). The drilling results have confirmed the presence of a hydrocarbon-bearing column of approximately 200 meters of good reservoir characteristics.

Development plan for Peregrino Phase II submitted
Following the sanction of the Peregrino phase 2 project in December, Statoil together with its partner Sinochem submitted the Plan of Development (PoD) to the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in Rio de Janeiro on 30 January.

Accident aboard FPSO Cidade de São Mateus
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras regretfully announces that an explosion took place aboard FPSO Cidade de São Mateus today, February 11th, at approximately 12:50 p.m. The FPSO is operated by BW Offshore and is chartered by Petrobras. The unit has been operating since June 2009 in the post-salt of the Camarupim and Camarupim Norte fields, off the coast of Espírito Santo state, 120 km offshore. Out of 74 workers onboard, three have succumbed to their injuries and died on site; ten sustained injuries and have already been transferred by helicopter to receive medical care in the city of Vitória; and six are still missing.