Taking A Pet To Spain
Pets entering Spain must be fitted with an ISO microchip for identification. Citizens of EU countries should bring their pets’ passports. What are the rules for British pets now that we are no longer members of the EU? If you have a pet passport issued by Spain or another EU member state, you can use...
Aker Solutions Secures US123M Troll A Platform deal
Aker Solutions secured a contract valued at over NOK 1 billion from Equinor to deliver a module for the Troll A platform that will help increase output at one of Norway’s largest natural gas fields. The engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract is the company’s latest award for work at phase 3 of the...
Wood wins new contract to provide FEED for Statoil refinery in Norway
Wood is delivering front-end engineering design (FEED) for Statoil’s Mongstad refinery near Bergen, Norway, as part of a new contract secured under an existing framework agreement. Effective immediately, the scope of the contract includes the design, engineering and analysis for modifications to reduce sulphur content in gasoline produced at the refinery. Wood’s in-country engineering teams...
Add Energy and PT Synergy secure maintenance build contract, Indonesia
Add Energy, the international energy consultancy provider, in partnership with their Indonesia partner, PT Synergy Engineering, have been awarded a maintenance build contract for work on Tangguh LNG expansion project in Indonesia. The work is being undertaken in both Aberdeen, at Add Energy’s engineering centre, and in PT. Synergy head office in Jakarta. Damon Bowler,...
Skanska lands Norway’s largest road project ever
Skanska are the preferred bidder for the first PPP-project in Norway in more than ten years. It is also the largest road contract ever awarded in Norway. The project involves constructing a new national road between Løten and Elverum in the county of Hedmark. The PPP-contract will be worth about NOK 5.5 billion, about SEK...
Wood Group picked for Norwegian chemical plant contract
Wood has secured a new engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCm) contract to deliver a major expansion at INOVYN’s Rafnes plant in Telemark, Norway. The company will support the Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) project to increase production capacity at the onshore chemical plant by around 70 kilo tonnes a year. Detailed engineering, procurement, installation management and...
KBR Awarded Statoil’s Ground-Breaking Northern Lights Project
KBR, Inc. has been awarded the Concept and FEED (front-end engineering design) contract by Statoil for their ground-breaking Northern Lights Project, to develop an onshore carbon dioxide (CO2) – a known greenhouse gas – storage terminal in Norway. The terminal is a key component of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) demonstration project being undertaken...
Aker wins trio of umbilicals contracts for Statoil projects
Aker Solutions won a contract to provide umbilicals for the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup, Utgard and Bauge developments offshore Norway. The order entails delivery of more than 40 kilometers in total of subsea umbilicals. It will be booked in the fourth quarter. “By combining the delivery for three separate projects into one order, we are able...
Expats Earn 25% More Abroad Than At Home
Singapore has again been rated by expats as the best country in the world to live and work. Runner-up was Norway. Both Singapore and Norway offer expats a stable economic and political environment while giving them a fulfilling experience and an improved family life, according to the HSBC Expat Explorer survey. As well as unveiling...
Best Destinations For A Career Abroad in 2017
Europe is rated the best destination for those looking to progress their career abroad and benefit from great working conditions. According to new data released from the latest Expat Explorer survey from HSBC, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Austria and the UK are among the top ten countries for a successful expat career. For the second...
Wärtsilä wins FRSU Norwegian contract
Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the re-gasification system for an FSRU (Floating, Storage, Re-gasification Unit) conversion project that Höegh LNG plans to carry out on a modern LNG vessel. The contract was signed in August. The Wärtsilä re-gasification system to be supplied will feature regas technology using water glycol as the intermediate medium instead...
DOF Subsea awarded vessel contract
Shell Australia has awarded DOF Subsea a five-year contract with 2x two year options to provide a fulltime underwater services and multi-purpose supply vessel (MPSV) to the Prelude FLNG facility. Prelude FLNG, the largest floating facility ever built, will produce, liquefy, store and transfer LNG at sea. The facility will be located in Western Australia....