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Halvorsen sends Akal C4 WHRUs to Mexico for Cantarell

Nov 12, 2013

Halvorsen Kanfa-Tec recently finished and shipped four 20MW Circular Waste Heat Recovery Units (WHRU) to Mexico. The highly efficient WHRUs, in terms of weight and volume, will be utilized by Pemex in the Cantarel Complex in the Gulf of Mexico…

Halvorsen expanding topside processing, services

Nov 12, 2013

Norway's Halvorsen Group AS, specializing in providing topside processing equipment and engineering services to the international offshore oil & gas industry, is planning further expansion following a substantial strategic investment from Blue Water Energy…

Subsea inspection camera

Nov 11, 2013

Norway-based Imenco AS brought its new products including its Lizard Shark pan and tilt camera at the Norway pavilion at Offshore Europe 2013. The Lizard Shark, designed for use in subsea inspection and tooling technology, combines a 10x…

Tritech Gemini Narrow Beam Imager

Nov 11, 2013

Tritech’s Gemini Narrow Beam Imager (NBI) has been field-proven by Reef Subsea. The NBI successfully monitored the trenched installation of 6-in. and 2-in. cable, while using controlled flow excavation techniques. The seabed conditions around the site varied considerably…

Colloquy: High-performance computing

Nov 06, 2013

Colloquy: Editor’s Column BP will invest US$100 million in high-performance computing over five years, and part of that is being spent on a new facility at the Westlake campus in Houston, housing the world’s largest super computer for…

Compact tensioners

Nov 01, 2013

Bolt-tensioning, equipment firm Tentec is showcasing its new V-Series of compact flange bolt tensioners. The V-Series is a range of tools designed for use on SPO compact flanges and the Norsok L-005 compact flanges. The range consists of 11 bolt tensioning tools covering bolt sizes from ¾-4in…

Snorre C: Statoil recommends new platform

Oct 28, 2013

Statoil recommends building a new drilling and processing platform on the Snorre field in the North Sea to maximize extraction of remaining reserves. Together with Petoro AS and the other license partners, Statoil says it has worked hard…

Suppliers benefit from pipelay demand

Oct 18, 2013

IHC Engineering Business, part of IHC Merwede, is benefiting from a demand for greater capacity in the pipelay market. It is currently working on five orders from Seabras Sapura for 550-tonne capacity vertical flex lay systems (FLS) to…

GOM major projects have blossomed-a picture IS worth a thousand words

Oct 16, 2013

The US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has clearly returned to the spotlight as one of the hottest offshore regions in the world. The impact of Macondo appears to be in the past and the number of both drilling rigs and major production projects are increasing…

New marine vibrator offers improved performance

Oct 11, 2013

Houston-based Geokinetics showed its latest source advance in their booth at the SEG Convention this September. Bill Pramik, Geokinetics’ vice president explains the technology. More and more, the oil and gas industry is being asked to reduce its impact on the environments in which it works…

Corac developing in-pipe gas compressor

Oct 08, 2013

Corac Group subsidiary Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed an amendment to its contract with Aramco Overseas Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, for a revised scope of work to develop an in-pipe gas compressor (IGC).  The amendment will enable CET to support the design…

Veolia subsidiary wins Ichthys contract

Oct 03, 2013

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) awarded VWS MPP Systems, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, a contract to supply a macro porous polymer extraction water purification (MPPE) unit for the Ichthys LNG project FPSO…

GE wins Yamal LNG supply deal

Oct 02, 2013

GE Oil & Gas won a contract to provide turbomachinery equipment for the Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) megaproject under development on the Yamal Peninsula in Russia’s northern Siberia region. GE will supply six Frame 7E gas turbines…

3DTV comes to Aberdeen oil industry

Sep 26, 2013

Leading players in the 3DTV industry will converging on Aberdeen next month for a conference focusing on use of such technologies in the oil and gas and renewables industries.  The 3DTV Conference: Vision Beyond Depth event has been organised by Aberdeen University…

Helix confirms Q7000 order

Sep 13, 2013

Helix Energy Solutions has confirmed an order for a second semisubmersible light well intervention rig from Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Jurong Shipyard. The US$346 million order is scheduled for delivery mid-2016, and will be built based…

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