Projects

Statoil has awarded the contract for drilling services on the Mariner platform on the UK continental shelf to UK-based Odfjell Drilling. "Mariner is the largest new offshore development in the UK in more than a decade,” said vice president, Western Europe, in Development and Production International in Statoil, Morten Ruud.

Automation Technology, Inc. (ATI), the global leader in customized valve automation, has been awarded a contract to supply valve actuator systems to a major pipeline operator for their West Texas NGL pipeline.

Group DF will build a new high-quality titanium dioxide production facility at Crimea TITAN. It will have an initial production capacity of 80 thousand tons per year, which will later be increased to 120 thousand tons.

BP has announced completion of a successful flow test of the Itaipu-1A discovery well offshore Brazil. The drill stem test was the latest activity in the ongoing appraisal program at the BP-operated Itaipu discovery.

Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, has received a multi-million dollar order from M.N. Larnaca Desalination to provide a complete pump package and energy recovery devices (ERDs) to be used at Larnaca, a 60,000 cubic meters/day seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located in the Republic of Cyprus.

Lakeland Resources Inc. has acquired two uranium projects by staking, both located within the northern part of the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada. The Athabasca Basin hosts the world's largest and richest high-grade uranium deposits.

Engineering and technology group SENER has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil. The company establishes an operating and permanent division in the country made up of about 300 Brazilian professionals specialized in engineering and construction that will carry out projects in the fields of power and process, civil engineering and architecture, aerospace and marine engineering.

First Solar Inc. has acquired the Solar Gen 2 power project, a 150 MW project located in Imperial County, California. Construction for the project is expected to start this year and finish in 2014.

Petrobras has awarded Subsea 7 S.A. a contract worth more than US$350 million. The contract is for the operation of the Pipe Lay Support Vessel (PLSV) Kommandor 3000 on a day rate basis for five years.

WorleyParsons has entered into a joint venture with Day & Zimmermann to provide turnkey solutions to the U.S.