Fugro News

Fugro TSM Q1400 trenching system

Sep 17, 2013

Fugro provides this video of its Q1400 Trenching system, which is capable of performing jet trenching in soils up to 100KPA and mechanical chain cutting of soils up to 250KPA.

Fugro, Bumi create well services JV

Aug 29, 2013

Fugro announced that it will enter into a new well services joint venture with Malaysia Oilfield Services company Bumi Armada Berhad. The companies will create a team consisting of members of both Fugro and Bumi Armada with skills in marine operations…

Fugro awarded 3-year survey contract by Total E&P Angola

Aug 28, 2013

Fugro has been awarded a large, three-year survey contract by Total E&P Angola, with an estimated value of US$26 million, to support its development programs offshore Angola. The contract includes the provision of offshore positioning services…

OE13: Walk-to-work boosts campaign

Sep 05, 2013

A scheme developed by Chevron to increase the amount of people working on its Captain field for asset integrity campaigns helped increase bed space and ease logistical issues during the recent helicopter crisis, a session heard yesterday…

Fugro Chance completes shallow 3D project in GoM

Aug 14, 2013

Fugro Chance Inc. provided three-dimensional (3D) acoustic metrology on a large 36-inch (91 cm) diameter spool piece, despite environmental and logistical challenges. The highly accurate metrology was performed from a platform in Enlace Litoral Tabasco…

The Gryphon Alpha rises

Sep 01, 2013

Twenty years after it came online, the UK’s longest serving permanently-moored FPSO has been given a new lease on life. Elaine Maslin reports on the extent the UK’s largest offshore project in 2012. When production from the central North Sea Gryphon field came online in October 1993…

Fugro and COSL sign JV extension

Aug 07, 2013

On 23 August 2013, when the recently signed ten-year extension comes into effect, Fugro will enter the fourth decade of the successful joint venture with China Oilfield Services Ltd (COSL). The joint venture, named China Offshore Fugro Geosolutions (COFG) in which Fugro holds 50%…

Fugro and COSL sign 10 year extension

Aug 08, 2013

After their recently signed ten-year extension comes into effect,  Fugro and China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL), will enter the fourth decade of the successful joint venture. China Offshore Fugro Geosolutions (COFG), in which each company holds 50% interest…

Chevron picks Fugro for Angola work

Jul 11, 2013

Fugro was awarded a three-year contract by Chevron’s subsidiary, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd., to support its development program at Block 0, off the coast of Cabinda province, Angola. The contract includes the provision of offshore…

Back to Basics with Offshore Installation Services President Mike Earlam

Jul 18, 2013

Mike Earlam joined Aberdeen-based Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Aceton company, as president in April. OIS specializes in providing support for construction, maintenance, installation and decommissioning projects. As leader of OIS…

Colloquy: Exploration Fabric of Africa

Jul 10, 2013

Colloquy: Editor’s Column The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) has developed a new African exploration GIS database, as the Edward G. Purdy Memorial Project, honoring the late geologist (b. 4 December 1931, d. 13 October…

Gravity gradiometry has graduated!

Jun 12, 2013

Andrew McBarnet picks up on the growing enthusiasm for modern gravity gradiometry surveys to assist E&P oil and gas operations There’s definitely something stirring in the full-tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) market for airborne and vessel surveys over onshore and offshore targets…

Fugro Chance, Inc. enters agreement with Coda Octopus Group Inc.

May 28, 2013

Fugro Chance, Inc. entered a two-year cooperation agreement with Coda Octopus Group Inc. involving the use of the company’s Coda Octopus  Echoscope, a patented 3D sonar technology. The deal grants CODA the ability to apply the Echoscope in a variety of environments…

CGG appoints new Senior VP

Jun 06, 2013

Christophe Barnini has been appointed as Senior Vice President, group communications for CGG. Barnini will report to Jean-Georges Malcor, CEO of CGG, and has become a permanent member of CGG’s management committee. This appointment took effect on 15th May 2013…

Sound Oil ready to unlock Laura

Jun 03, 2013

Exploration and production company Sound Oil is planning to drill its first appraisal well on the Laura discovery offshore Italy as part of a larger drilling program in the country next year.    Laura, in the D150 DR-CS permit in…

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