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Geoholm RSV contract extended

Jul 21, 2015

Petrobras has extended the RSV contract for the vessel Geoholm for 18 months until December 2016.  The extension is a direct continuation of the current contract and the vessel has been operating for Petrobras since January 2014. The…

Seatronics appoints QHSE coordinator

Jul 22, 2015

Image: Joanne Keilloh/ Seatronics Seatronics appointed Joanne Keilloh as its new group QHSE coordinator based in Aberdeen. Keilloh will lead the QHSE function within the Seatronics Group and Acteon sister company…

Fatal accident reported on Skandi Pacific

Jul 15, 2015

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating a fatal accident on board anchor handling supply vessel, Skandi Pacific, 166km northwest of Karartha, Western Australia (on the Northwest Shelf).  During the early hours of 14 July…

Goliat in tow to Barents

May 07, 2015

Eni's Goliat platform is being towed from Hammerfest in Finnmark to the field location in the Barents Sea.   Goliat tow out. From Eni. The cylindrical platform – a so-called floating…

DOF picks up Chevron IMR contract

Mar 12, 2015

Chevron Australia has awarded DOF Subsea Asia Pacific a three years master services agreement, IMR contract to work on projects on the Australian North West Shelf.  DOF Subsea will deploy the DP vessel Skandi Protector to undertake this work supported by an extensive management…

Huisman opens Brazil facility

Apr 23, 2015

Huisman officially opened their new production facility in Navegantes, Santa Catarina state on 16 April 2015, in the south of Brazil. The facility is used for the manufacturing of offshore equipment for the Brazilian market. It is located along the Itajai-Açu river…

Knarr FPSO fire under investigation

Mar 26, 2015

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) is investigating a fire that broke out on the Petrojarl Knarr floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) in the Knarr field, North Sea. Petrojarl Knarr achieving first oil…

BG: Developing Knarr

Mar 24, 2015

BG Group began production at the Knarr field in the North Sea, seven years after its discovery. In this video, BG Group takes you to the process to get to this month, where its first floating vessel development is expected to deliver vital resources to the European energy market…

BG starts-up Knarr FPSO

Mar 18, 2015

First production has started from the BG Group-operated Knarr field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Knarr, discovered in 2008, with estimated gross recoverable reserves around 80 MMboe, is being produced from two subsea templates…

Chevron extends Skandi Salvador contract

Mar 06, 2015

Chevron Brasil extended the contract for Skandi Salvador and IRM services for the remainder of 2015. The extension is a direct continuation of the current contract.   The vessel has been operating for Chevron on the Frade oil field since delivery of the vessel in 2009…

AWE begins subsea tieback in New Zealand

Mar 09, 2015

AWE Ltd. began the Pateke-4H subsea tieback and installation project offshore New Zealand. Map from AWE.   Pateke-4H is located in the offshore Taranaki basin, in the PMP 38158 permit area…

Maersk using Ampelmann MCG

Mar 05, 2015

Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. (MOUK) awarded Ampelmann a contract to use its motion compensation gangways (MCG). MOUK will use the Ampelmann system for a shutdown campaign in the UK sector of the central North Sea to extend the weather window and increase workability and efficiency…

Seafloor tools

Mar 09, 2015

Susan Gourvenec outlines toolbox approach for optimizing geotechnical design of subsea foundations Fig. 1: Evolution of offshore architecture. Image created by M Cocjin, COFS, UWA.   Subsea…

DOF wins GOM contracts

Jan 07, 2015

DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF ASA, has been awarded several contracts in the North America region by key clients and oil majors in the Gulf of Mexico.  The contract awards will give a utilization of the chartered-in vessels Ross Candies…

Huisman inks AHTS winch contracts

Feb 09, 2015

Netherlands based lifting, drilling and subsea solutions firm Huisman and Brazilian shipping company and shipyard group Grupo CBO have signed a contract for the delivery of four anchor handling and towing winch packages for four new Havyard 843 AHTS vessels…

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