Subsea News


Eidesvik inks Technip, Faroe work

Feb 16, 2016

Eidesvik Offshore entered into a new contract extension with Technip for the Viking Neptune subsea support vessel that is scheduled to begin in early April. The supply ship Viking Prince has also been awarded a contract with Faroe Petroleum for a well starting in mid May 2016…

Aker, Total sign technology collaboration deal

Feb 16, 2016

Aker Solutions and Total agreed to collaborate on research and innovation to develop new cost-effective subsea field technology. The initial four-year technical collaboration agreement will build on earlier cooperation and bring both…

TE unveils subsea CiA LVDT position transmitter

Feb 15, 2016

TE Connectivity (TE) announced a new Macro Sensors SSBR-937 Series CANBus LVDT Position Sensor with a  CANopen interface compliant to CiA 443 for subsea instruments. The subsea CiA 443 LVDT position sensor…

Forsys inks Trestakk tieback

Feb 15, 2016

Forsys Subsea, the joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, has been awarded a contract from Statoil to provide a subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for subsea tie-back of Trestakk to Åsgard A floating production…

Aker dips 16.5%, to make MMO pay cuts

Feb 12, 2016

Aker Solutions saw a 16.5% drop in its revenue in Q4 2015 as the market activity declined, especially in the North Sea, that will result in the company to slow down activity, reduce costs, and streamline its maintenance, modifications, and operations (MMO)…

Halliburton adds to Dash system range

Feb 11, 2016

Halliburton has released the Dash 3in subsea safety system, a solution for electrohydraulic control of Halliburton’s subsea safety tree. Previously, control was provided through direct hydraulic pressure from the surface. This latest edition…

Subsea 7, NOV ink Sea Lion FEED contracts

Feb 11, 2016

Premier Oil has issued key front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the subsea work on its Falklands Islands Sea Lion development.  The subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines transport and installation to Subsea 7. A FEED…

Deep Gulf Energy picks Technip for deepwater project

Feb 09, 2016

Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Deep Gulf Energy III for the development of the deepwater Southe Santa Cruz and Barataria fields, in 200m water depth in the Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. The contract consists of: Project management and engineering services…

Wood Group inks Chevron extension

Feb 09, 2016

Wood Group has secured an extension to continue to support Chevron Upstream Europe across four offshore assets in the North Sea. Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver operations and maintenance services to the Alba Northern platform, Alba floating storage unit…

Diamond, GE ink performance-based BOP deal

Feb 08, 2016

Diamond Offshore Drilling and GE Oil & Gas entered into the offshore drilling industry's first-of-its-kind contractual service agreement (CSA) that transfers full accountability for blowout preventer (BOP) performance to GE Oil & Gas. In this Pressure Control by the Hour model…

Acteon launches field life service

Feb 08, 2016

Subsea services company Acteon has launched a new service offering to directly address the demands and changing conditions of the global oil and gas industry. Acteon Field Life Service (FLS) offers a “joined-up” approach to the capex…

Late Laggan-Tormore comes onstream

Feb 08, 2016

First gas from Total’s Laggan and Tormore gas and condensate subsea-to-shore development has finally been achieved. Originally due on stream at the end of 2014, the Laggan-Tormore development, has suffered delays, resulting in massive costs for onshore contractor Petrofac…

Subsea Expo: Standardization standardization standardization

Feb 05, 2016

Standardization is a hot topic in the offshore oil and gas industry, not least in the subsea sector. OE caught up with GE Oil & Gas' global leader of subsea services and offshore Nick Dunn after his talk at Subsea Expo, which touched on the topic…

Subsea Expo: Vision and courage needed for $30/bbl oil

Feb 05, 2016

Almost 7000 visits were made to this week's Subsea Expo - Europe’s largest subsea event, held in Aberdeen, despite the industry facing its toughest year ever.  The exhibition and conference, organized by Subsea UK, attracted just under 5000 individual delegates…

Subsea UK sponsors MATE ROV competition

Feb 04, 2016

At Subsea Expo, Subsea UK has announced that it will sponsor an initiative which inspires budding subsea engineers for a second year.  The body which represents the US$13.1 billion (£9 billion) subsea industry has now committed over $29…

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