Offshore marine company Otto Marine will hold a naming ceremony for the Norshore Atlantic at its Batam Shipyard, Indonesia, today. The Norshore Atlantic is one the first of its kind to be constructed by an Asian yard, says Otto. It…
When one thinks of “retro,” a number of things may come to mind – old clothes, vintage furniture, maybe even a classic car – but in the world of subsea well operations, there are three words that best fit: Riserless drilling systems. Riserless…
Milling bit packed with set asphaltenes Copyright Welltec A/S Various myths and misperceptions surround riserless light well interventions (RLWI), preventing operators from performing these cost-efficient…
Offshore drilling solutions provider AGR Enhanced Drilling (AGR ED)has further secured its position in the Caspian after BP signed a two-year contract extension with the Norwegian company. The contract was signed by BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd…
AGR has been contracted to provide riserless mud recovery services for an operator working off Sakhalin. The US$3 million contract will see AGR Enhanced Drilling provide riserless mud recovery (RMR) services over this summer drilling season…
AGR has been contracted to provide riserless mud recovery services for an operator working off Sakhalin. The US$3m contract will see AGR division AGR Enhanced Drilling provide its Riserless Mud Recovery (RMR) services (RMR) over this year’s summer drilling season…
The offshore oil and gas industry is moving further into deeper and colder waters in remote locations thanks to advancing technologies. Ulstein provides products and solutions in support of safer, smarter and greener operations. The OCV/subsea vessel design SX121…
This year’s group of Spotlight Award winners at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC.13) brings advances in all areas of offshore activity. Advances were generated in drilling, logging, operational control, robotic intervention and more…
FMC Technologies and Edison Chouest Offshore formed a joint venture based in Houston to provide integrated vessel-based subsea services for offshore oil and gas fields globally. The JV will offer equipment intervention, riserless light well intervention…
‘Why does rigless also have to be riserless?’ offshore technology innovator David Wright, president of Wright’s Well Control Services, asked himself. His answer: a self-contained heave compensation system that heaves itself while running coiled…
While the Q4000, star of the Macondo response,was in dock recently for some much-deserved TLC, Helix Energy Solutions Group chairman and CEO Owen Kratz spoke with analysts about the company’s bet on a burgeoning well intervention market and…
Safer, faster, more efficient, more productive, more cost-effective and simpler interfaces top the technology wish lists of many in the offshore oil & gas sector over the next decade, as Jennifer Pallanich reveals in part two of this month's special survey…
The world's largest deepwater well intervention ship recently set sail from Norway, bound for its first offshore contract. Before it left port, Terry Knott visited the newbuild Skandi Aker to find out what makes this vessel stand out from the pack…
Rapid technological and market developments in the offshore industry over the past five years have put pressure on class to develop rules and notations for a new generation of specialised well-intervention offshore vessels. DNV's Alexander Wardwell reports…
Handling the loadCargotec is to deliver MacGregor offshore and subsea load-handling systems to a deepsea research vessel on order at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Shimonoseki shipyard in Japan.‘This contract highlights Cargotec’s capacity and technological expertise in offshore load-handling…