Offshore Technology News - page 183


Balmoral releases HT thermal insulation systems

Apr 29, 2016

Balmoral Offshore Engineering has introduced a range of high temperature thermal insulation systems suitable for use on subsea Christmas trees, manifolds, spool pieces and jumpers, etc. High temperature-rated silicone, urethane alloy…

OTC16: Bosch Rexroth to showcase latest drives solutions

Apr 29, 2016

Bosch Rexroth will exhibit its latest marine and offshore technologies at booth 4416 during Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) at NRG Park in Houston, 2-5 May 2016. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about Rexroth’s technologies…

OES, SCM join strategic partnership

Apr 29, 2016

Strategic Corrosion Management (SCM), an asset integrity firm, has joined with OES Oilfield Services Group, an oilfield inspection company, in a global strategic partnership, which will integrate the companies’ RISCm (Risk, Integrity, and…

Forecasting the future of oil and gas operations

Apr 27, 2016

A new report from DNV GL paints a very automated future for many oil and gas processes and sectors. Melissa Sustaita sets out the details. Sames. Image from OE staff. Over the…

NSL wins Saipmen lifting, HSE work

Apr 25, 2016

NSL has won HSE (health, safety, and enviornment) and lifting operations contracts with Italy's Saipem. The two-year agreement will deliver HSE competency assurance and lifting intervention of onshore and offshore lifting operations to Saipem personnel…

Siemens wins Baltic wind farm order

Apr 25, 2016

Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation, and commissioning of 60 direct-drive offshore wind turbines, each with a capacity of 6MW. The customer for the project is a consortium between the German power provider E.ON, based in Essen…

Fugro awarded CHS supply arrangement

Apr 25, 2016

Fugro has been awarded a supply arrangement by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) to provide vessel based hydrographic survey services. Under the contract CHS will procure hydrographic surveys as needed, anywhere in Canada, to enhance…

Cross Group wins Trinidad gig

Apr 22, 2016

The Cross Group has won a contract to assist in pulling five flexible flowlines and an umbilical, with a maximum expected load of 44-tonne, onto a jacketed platform. The work will be performed using one of Cross Group’s Hepburn 83-MPE…

CGG GeoSoftware updates VelPro

Apr 22, 2016

CGG GeoSoftware has released VelPro 9.5, a velocity modeling and depth conversion commercial software technology used by interpreters and velocity modeling experts to integrate seismic and well velocity information, horizons, faults, and well tops into velocity models…

Sandvik extends CT reach

Apr 22, 2016

Sandvik will offers weld-free coiled tubing in lengths exceeding 1000m. The first 1010m coiled tube reel is to be symbolically delivered on 10 October 2016 for a demanding offshore oil and gas customer. To meet a growing need for coiled tubing in very long lengths…

New Wild Well tool completes GOM P&A

Apr 22, 2016

Wild Well Control’s DeepRange tool, in conjunction with its 7Series riserless intervention system, has successfully performed full plug and abandonment operations on four subsea wells in the Gulf of Mexico. These wells are a part of a larger…

ITF JIP undergoes field trial

Apr 20, 2016

V-IR, a new technology system designed to identify the location of electrical faults on subsea installations, is undergoing a shallow water trial at Portishead Quays marina.  Established through The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)…

DOF supports Eni's OCTP project

Apr 20, 2016

DOF Subsea has been awarded more than US$61.6 million (NOK 500 million) in IMR and subsea installation contracts in several regions, including key work on Eni's OCTP project offshore Ghana. DOF was awarded an FPSO mooring installation…

Aker opens Brazilian subsea facility

Apr 20, 2016

Aker Solutions has opened its new subsea plant in Curitiba, Brazil. The facility will employ about 850 people and is dedicated to machining, welding, surface treatment, assembly and testing of christmas trees and other subsea equipment. It…

Sakhalin Energy, Ampelmann sign Icemann agreement

Apr 18, 2016

Ampelmann and Sakhalin Energy Investment signed an agreement to install and operate a winterized version of an Ampelmann’s motion compensated gangway system. This system is designed to be capable of safely and efficiently transferring work crew in temperatures down to -28˚C…

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