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Excelerate’s Aguirre gets FERC approval

Jul 27, 2015

Houston-based Excelerate Energy received authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Aguirre Offshore GasPort project offshore Puerto Rico.Image from Excelerate. After nearly four years of environmental reviews…

Harkand in Mexico inertial metrology survey

Jul 27, 2015

Image: diver working/Harkand Harkand has carried out the first-ever free inertial metrology in Mexico's waters and at a new depth for this approach in the region. The global inspection…

Genesis to acquire GoM pipeline business for US$1.5 billion

Jul 16, 2015

Enterprise Products Partners LP executed definitive agreements to sell its offshore Gulf of Mexico pipelines and services business to Genesis Energy, LP for approximately US$1.5 billion in cash. Image from Enterprise…

OMS launches inspection service

Jul 10, 2015

Precision measurement specialist Optical Metrology Services (OMS) launched an inspection service to analyze the critical internal girth features of oil and gas pipeline welds in the firing line.  Specifically designed to blend seamlessly with pipe weld processes…

Saipem gets official South Stream axe

Jul 09, 2015

Gazprom handed Eni subsidiary Saipem a termination notice for the South Stream pipeline project to transport gas via a pipeline in the Black Sea. Image of South Stream pipelay. Images from Gazprom…

2H Offshore wins two Stampede contracts

Jul 08, 2015

2H Offshore has been awarded two separate contracts, one by Hess Corp. and a second contract by Enbridge Energy Co., to verify the design, fabrication and installation phases of the steel catenary risers (SCRs) for the Stampede field development in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM)…

4Subsea drills in on flexible pipe corrosion

Jul 03, 2015

The Research Council of Norway has through its Petromaks 2 program awarded 4Subsea funding for a research initiative on corrosion in flexible pipes. The initiative aims at developing new and improved ways of assessing structural integrity…

Subsea 7 inks Ichthys contracts

Jul 03, 2015

Subsea 7 has been awarded four contracts by Chevron Australia and INPEX Operations Australia for the engineering, procurement and construction of an emergency pipeline repair system (EPRS) to be used offshore Australia. This EPRS project consists of developing a process of repair…

CT-ing in the deep

Jul 01, 2015

Medical technology has been taken to the bottom of deepwater Gulf of Mexico to help operators understand their flow assurance and asset integrity issues. Elaine Maslin explains a technology first.  Discovery deployed…

Decom projects on the rise

Jul 01, 2015

Within the next few years, a couple of major decommissioning projects are set to start in the UK sector of the North Sea at the Brent and Murchison fields — and there are plenty of other projects in the pipeline. John Bradbury outlines the activity…

Realizing CCS’s potential

Jul 01, 2015

Could the North Sea become a CO2 storage site? Elaine Maslin takes a look at two proposed projects and some of the challenges involved. The CCS goal—how the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage sees carbon capture and storage on and offshore…

Wood Group acquires BETA

Jun 30, 2015

Wood Group acquired BETA Machinery Analysis (BETA), a Calgary-based engineering consultancy specializing in advanced vibration analysis in a deal valued at US$14.3 million. BETA’s expertise in advanced vibration, pulsation stress…

GE‘s Newcastle innovation center unveiled

Jun 25, 2015

GE Oil & Gas announced the official opening of its new innovation center in Newcastle, UK, designed to drive technology development for the subsea fields of the future. The center houses GE’s full suite of testing equipment for flexible pipelines…

Wood Group to run CATS

Jun 25, 2015

Wood Group has entered into a US$250million agreement with Antin Infrastructure Partners (Antin IP) to provide operating services for the Central Area Transmission System (also known as CATS) in the North Sea for up to 10 years, subject to certain regulatory and other consents…

Total a shoo-in for Shtokman

Jun 19, 2015

Gazprom is welcoming Total back to the Shtokman project upon resuming operations in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea. Image of Gazprom, Total and StatoilHydro signing framework agreement for Phase 1…

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