Subsea News


Mooring work begins at Ichthys

May 12, 2015

Mooring installation has gun at Inpex's Ichthys field in Australia's Browse Basin, the company announced on 8 May 2015. The first of 49 foundation piles was safely deployed and driven into the seabed on Wednesday, 6 May 2015, in 250m water depth…

MacArtney increases pressure vessel range

May 12, 2015

With the introduction of a new range of hydrostatic pressure vessels, MacArtney now offers a range of four highly capable and versatile standard pressure vessels. Furthermore, MacArtney is able to supply customized or bespoke vessels featuring alternative dimensions and pressure rating…

Optime Subsea targets tree installation cost savings

May 12, 2015

A group of ex-FMC employees have teamed up with subsea installation player DeepOcean to found Optime Subsea Services, whose multiCompletionSystem (mCS) can provide up to 80% time and cost savings on subsea tree installations compared to traditional solutions…

Part II: The demand for standardization

May 12, 2015

In the second installment of a two part series, Elaine Maslin takes a look at what all the clamor about standardization is, what the industry is planning to do about it and what the results have been to date.  Image from DNV GL…

OIS lands North Sea decommissioning campaign

May 12, 2015

Acteon company Offshore Installation Services (OIS) has been awarded a contract to decommission multiple wells in the North Sea by operator Centrica Energy. The initial campaign includes six subsea wells in the central North Sea, in categories 2…

Delta SubSea gets Olympic Delta vessel

May 11, 2015

Delta SubSea entered into an agreement with Olympic Shipping for the Olympic Delta, a newly built multipurpose subsea support and construction vessel. Image of the Olympic Delta. From Delta SubSea…

Red Marine develops subsea clamp solution

May 11, 2015

Red Marine developed and delivered the modular umbilical clamp system, made up of six purely mechanical elements to FMC Technologies.  Image of the modular umbilical clamp system. From Red Marine…

GE, Enpro Subsea in well intervention MOU

May 11, 2015

GE Oil & Gas and Enpro Subsea entered in an agreement to jointly market and provide fluid intervention services that offer oil and gas operators a cost-effective way to improve production rates in producing wells. The companies have signed…

Apache starts up Coniston field

May 11, 2015

US-based operator Apache started oil production from the Coniston subsea oil field development offshore Exmouth, Western Australia, 10 May, says partner INPEX.  Coniston covers 45sq km saddling blocks WA-35-L and WA-55-L where the water is 380m deep…

Wood Group wins OSRCL contract

May 11, 2015

Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has won a five-year contract with Oil Spill Response (Capping) Ltd. (OSRCL) to provide the maintenance support for a key part of a containment toolkit that would be used to control hydrocarbon release in the event of a subsea well control incident…

Subsea 7 inks Maria EPCI

May 08, 2015

Subsea 7 has been award of a US$300 million pipeline and subsea contract for the Wintershall Norge Maria field development. Maria is located in the Norwegian Sea at 300m water depth. The contract consists of engineering, procurement…

Jan De Nul orders two installation vessels

May 07, 2015

Jan De Nul Group is investing in two 6000-ton subsea rock installation vessels that were ordered at AVIC Weihai shipyard in Weihai, China. The vessels will be able to install rock at depths up to about 600m by means of a flexible fall pipe…

Nexans delivers static umbilical to Snøhvit

May 07, 2015

Statoil's Snøhvit gas field, the largest industrial project off the coast of northern Norway, will be equipped with Nexans' static umbilical that provide hydraulic, electrical and fiber optic services for subsea services. The Snøhvit…

OTC15: FMC, Total sign R&D frame agreement

May 06, 2015

FMC Technologies and Total signed a frame agreement for technology development on 5 May. The purpose of this agreement is to define the R&D relationship and to create a framework for collaborative and innovative projects. The goals of…

Aibel awarded Maria work

May 06, 2015

Aibel was awarded a US$114.3 million engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for work related to planned water injection from the Heidrun platform to the Wintershall Norge-operated Maria field. The Maria field is in the Norwegian Sea…

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