The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted its Integrated Software Quality Management (ISQM) notation to OOS Serooskerke one of the world’s largest semi-submersible, heavy-lift crane platforms.The ABS Integrated Software Quality Management…
Offshore equipment company OEG Offshore (OEG) has this week acquired Norfolk‐based Pegasus Welfare Solutions (PWS), a company that developed the world's first offshore wind turbine toilet, for an undisclosed sum.Aberdeen‐based OEG, which provides the offshore market with DNV certified containers…
Safe Influx, an Aberdeen-based well control company, said Thursday that the rig trial of the industry’s first-ever integration of Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) and Automated Well Control technology has been completed. 'Following months of preparation by Weatherford…
ChampionX, a Texas-based oilfield tech company, has said it has won two contracts to deliver its 'non-toxic chemicals' aimed at tackling corrosion to two major North Sea operators.Under the contracts worth £2.8 million ($3.9 USD) in total, the…
UK-based Ithaca Energy, the operator of the Captain field located on the edge of the outer Moray Firth, UK, has sanctioned Captain Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Stage 2 project.The sanction of the project in the UK Central North Sea comes after…
Norway-based Tampnet which operates offshore high-capacity communication networks has completed the acquisition of BP's Gulf of Mexico (GoM) offshore fiber cable network, in what Tampnet says is one of the most significant milestones in the history of the company…
Akselos, a company developing real-time digital twins for offshore energy industry applications, has appointed Shell Venture’s Michiel Van Haersma Buma as Vice President of Customer Success.Van Haersma Buma joins Akselos after a 12-year career with Shell as a commercial technologist…
Boston-based subsea robotics firm Dive Technologies has entered a commercial partnership with Metron, Inc. 'This partnership will directly support the commercialization of Metron’s Autonomy, Navigation, Command & Control (ANCC) software suite…
PSE Kinsale Energy, a Petronas subsidiary working to decommission its Kinsale area offshore gas fields in Ireland, has awarded a contract to HydraWell to support the project.PSE Kinsale Energy last July said that the Kinsale area offshore gas…
DNV, energy industry expertise and assurance provider on Wednesday published what it said was the world’s first recommended practice (RP) for floating solar power projects following a collaborative joint industry project (JIP) involving 24 industry participants…
CGG, a France-based provider of seismic data for oil and gas industry, has said it has won three major seismic imaging projects by BP.Two projects are for data from deepwater Gulf of Mexico and one from offshore Trinidad & Tobago.'These projects…
Robots could replace hundreds of thousands of oil and gas jobs globally and reduce drilling labor costs by several billion dollars by 2030, if there is an industry push for such a transition, Rystad Energy has found.'Even when the Covid-19 downturn is finally past us…
Vaarst, an offshore robotics technology spin-off from ROV-services firm Rovco, was formally launched Wednesday.Vaarst says its goal is to revolutionize the offshore robotics sector - 'leveraging intelligent data flows for smart asset management…
What has been described as a first-of-its-kind multi-million-pound fleet of innovative and interconnected marine technologies is soon set to be deployed off the coast of Plymouth, UK, according to Plymouth Marine Laboratory, a marine research institute…
Dutch Damen Shipyards Group has teamed up with technology firm MO4 specializing in offshore motion prediction, to take a step towards the digitalization of offshore wind farm operations. 'This strategic alliance pairs Damen’s Triton monitoring platform with MO4 motion forecasting knowledge…