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How AUVS Can Spot Oil Plumes After an Ocean Spill

Feb 14, 2022

On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned, sank in the Gulf of Mexico and terrified the world. This horrific accident — recorded as the largest oil spill in history — killed 11 workers and released 210 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean…

Baker Hughes Expands in Guyana

Feb 14, 2022

Energy technology company Baker Hughes announced it has opened a new 'supercenter' facility for oilfield services and equipment in Guyana. The facility, which spans more than 8 acres, will support regional customers and bolster Baker Hughes’ localization efforts within South America…

Worley Gets Funding for Enhanced Subsea Gas Tieback Project

Feb 11, 2022

Worley's Aberdeen office has been given £765,000 support from Scotland's national economic development agency Scottish Enterprise for full pre-production testing of its pseudo dry gas (PDG) liquid removal system.According to Worley, the Enhanced…

Ingersoll Rand Launches BOP Handling System for Arctic Temperatures

Feb 08, 2022

Ingersoll Rand has introduced the Ingersoll Rand Arctic Range Blowout Preventor (BOP) Handling System for safely transporting and handling B.O.P. stacks in ultra-low temperatures. This specially designed system can operate at temperatures as…

Borr Drilling Picks IFS Cloud

Feb 08, 2022

Cloud enterprise software company IFS said Tuesday that the shallow water offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling was upgrading its existing IT platforms to the latest IFS versions including IFS Cloud, IFS Cloud Services and IFS Success Services…

Technip Energies Acquires 16.3% Stake in Floating Wind Tech Start-up X1 Wind

Feb 08, 2022

Engineering and technology group, Technip Energies has acquired a 16.3% stake in X1 Wind, a startup that has designed 'an innovative and disruptive' offshore wind turbine floater.Technip Energies is the lead investor in this funding round, which…

Shell Orders EDR's Drilling Tech for Gulf of Mexico Operations

Feb 07, 2022

Norwegian offshore drilling technology company Enhanced Drilling (EDR) has recently received an order from Shell to supply a second EC-Drill Controlled Mud Level (CML) system to be used in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) system…

Shearwater GeoServices, ConocoPhillips 'Reveal' Tech Collab

Feb 04, 2022

Offshore seismic surveyor Shearwater GeoServices has signed a technology sale and transfer deal with the oil firm ConocoPhillips, involving seismic imaging technology that will be implemented in Shearwater's Reveal software.According to Shearwater…

Ireland's First: XOCEAN Deploys Uncrewed Vessel for Survey in Irish Waters

Feb 03, 2022

XOCEAN last week launched an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) in Ireland to carry out an environmental survey of the seabed in collaboration with Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT). Launched off County Louth coast, off the Mid-East Region of Ireland…

Jan De Nul Group Orders USV for Offshore Surveys

Feb 02, 2022

Marine dredging and installation services contractor Jan De Nul Group has ordered Maritime Robotic's Mariner Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) as the first step towards unmanned and autonomous offshore survey operations. Named Beluga 01, after the Beluga whale…

Hydromea's Wireless ROV Tested at TotalEnergies’ FPSO Ballast Water Tank

Feb 02, 2022

Switzerland-based subsea wireless access provider Hydromea has said it has recently successfully trialed EXRAY, its wireless underwater ROV system, in a full ballast water tank on one of TotalEnergies’ North Sea FPSOs.EXRAY was deployed to collect visual inspection data…

Saudi Aramco Buys Stake in Cognite from Aker BP

Feb 02, 2022

Saudi Aramco has bought a 7.4% stake in Norwegian industrial software group Cognite from oil firm Aker BP, Cognite said on Wednesday.The price for the stake was 'around 1 billion Norwegian crowns,' or about $113 million, an Aker BP spokesperson told Reuters…

IKM Subsea's ROV to Sport Nauticus Robotics Olympic Arm

Feb 02, 2022

Norwegian ROV operator and subsea services company IKM Subsea has selected the Nauticus Robotics Olympic Arm, a fully electric work-class manipulator, for its subsea resident remotely operated vehicle (ROV) system. The Olympic Arm increases…

Golden Energy Offshore Signs Up for Inmarsat's Fleet LTE

Feb 02, 2022

Mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has secured a contract with the Norwegian offshore support vessel owner Golden Energy Offshore to provide its three-in-one network service Fleet LTE, to meet the needs of vessel charterers, crew…

ABS, N-KOM Testing Remote Survey Techniques for Shipyard Surveys

Feb 01, 2022

Maritime classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Nakilat - Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (N-KOM) have teamed up to examine how techniques developed by ABS for its program of remote survey of vessels in service can be applied to surveys and inspections in the shipyard…

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