US-based Bluefin Robotic successfully tested its unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in deepwater conditions, the company announced last month. Bluefin tested the UUV off Massachusetts with the Scarlett Isabella vessel…
Saipem is constructing a new fabrication yard in Brazil close to the Santos basin. Pier Alberto Viecelli and Andrea Intieri of Saipem share the details and scope of the investment. As the global offshore oil & gas industry makes giant steps towards ultra-deep waters…
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver operations & maintenance services to Hess Corporation's Baldpate production platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, under a new five-year contract. WGPSN will also provide these services to Hess for…
A new Russian oceanographic research vessel was launched at the JSC Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea. New research vessel in JSC Yantar Shipyard R/V Yantar is designed for deepwater research. The 107.8m-long vessel…
Tenaris invests US$180 million in Brazilian mill to support deepwater challenges. The new U-and-O forming presses at Tenaris’s mill in Pindamonhangaba will produce casing and tubing to face offshore E&P challenges, especially for the Pre-Salt…
Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Total hwill sign a framework of agreement whereby QPI will participate in Total E&P Congo through its subscription to a 15% share capital increase of this company. This participation reinforces Qatar’s…
Reeled pipelay has normally been used in fully developed and matured offshore oil and gas field areas with close proximity to onshore support, onshore logistics, and with short offshore transit distance to onshore spoolbases for loading the pipeline stalks onto the reel…
The offshore market is becoming of increasing importance to Finnish suppliers, partly because of the current downturn in traditional shipbuilding orders. Finnish companies have a wealth of offshore-related niche expertise from ice management to automatic welding for shipyards…
Oceaneering International has been subcontracted by Saipem to supply umbilicals for the Burullus West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Phase IXa development offshore Egypt. The order is for 10 subsea production control umbilicals totaling approximately 84 kilometers (52…
E&P companies are ramping up exploration of deepwater and ultra-deepwater reservoirs, encouraged by attractive oil prices. New developments spread across offshore Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and North and South America. Jeannie…
Aberdeen-based Bibby Offshore recently completed hyperbaric evacuation trials on its DSV fleet, which includes the Bibby Sapphire, Polaris and Topaz. Bibby is the first company to carry out this procedure on its entire fleet and the only…
Cargotec's MacGregor has received a EUR 22 million (US $28,369,261) order to deliver a 900-tonne active heave-compensated (AHC) MacGregor subsea crane to the South Korean shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd. The crane will be installed…
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania through Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) announced the 4th Tanzania Deep Offshore and North Lake Tanganyika Licensing Round. The 4th Tanzania Offshore Licensing Round…
As subsea projects continue to increase in size and complexity, they are also more frequently executed in deepwater and harsh environments. As well as having the vessels and ROVs with the capabilities to execute the scopes, and the expert…
Pemex awarded Subsea 7's Mexican joint venture its second contract for work at the Line 67 Project in the Bay of Campeche, the E&C services company announced on 14 May 2013. The contract's value is estimated at US$90 million. The scope of work includes the engineering…