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BP picks Aker for subsea frame agreement

Mar 29, 2016

Aker Solutions secured a global framework agreement to deliver engineering and project management services at BP-operated subsea oil and gas fields. The contract has a fixed period of five years and may be extended by two years. It covers subsea engineering services…

IMES wins Bibby frame agreement

Mar 24, 2016

Bibby Offshore has awarded a frame agreement for rigging equipment inspection and wire rope management to marine and subsea business IMES following a lengthy and competitive tender process. The agreement, potentially worth a seven-figure sum…

Gabon extends 11th round deadline

Mar 23, 2016

The government of Gabon has extended the deadline to submit bids for the country's 11th Licensing Round to 29 April 2016. Gabon is calling for international participation in the licensing round which will focus on five blocks, E-12, F-12…

READ launches ZeroTime at ICoTA

Mar 22, 2016

Aberdeen-based well intervention specialist READ Cased Hole launched its latest logging technology, ZeroTime, at the 2016 SPE ICoTA Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conference and Exhibition in Houston. As a logging while working solution…

Aquatic adds to Houston team

Mar 22, 2016

Aquatic Engineering & Construction has expanded its team based in Houston. Bob Terrell joined Aquatic last month as regional manager, while Andrew Blaquiere has moved permanently from the Acteon group to Aquatic as proposals and project engineer…

CentraMax RT1 finds success in GOM

Mar 18, 2016

Antelope Oil Tool (AOT), a manufacturer and supplier of casing and cementation equipment, has successfully run their CentraMax RT1 centralizer in ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, in a deviated and under-reamed wellbore. A customer faced…

OneSubsea, BP sign two EPC GFAs

Mar 16, 2016

OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, has signed two 5-year global frame agreements (GFA) with BP to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of subsea production systems (SPS) and subsea aftermarket services. Continuing previous supply agreements with BP…

Frames finishes Petrobras FPSO work

Mar 16, 2016

Frames Flow Control & Safeguarding has completed the flow control and safeguarding equipment for the Petrobras FPSO Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29. Modec Offshore Production Systems (Singapore), a Modec group company, awarded Frames…

Statoil upgrading Vigdis jumper

Mar 16, 2016

Statoil has exercised an option with Ocean Installer for flexible jumper replacement at the Vigdis field. The option falls under an amendment to the previously awarded SLMP Marine Installation contract. Vigdis is in block 34/7 in the…

SeeByte, Tritech collaboration produces Gemini 720is

Mar 15, 2016

SeeByte and Tritech International have integrated SeeByte’s target tracking capabilities into Tritech’s Gemini 720is multibeam imaging sonar software. This agreement sees the integration of Tritech’s Gemini 720is sonar with SeeByte’s tracking analytics…

Harkand on Flyndre commissioning campaign

Mar 15, 2016

UK-based subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) firm Harkand has been awarded a multi-million pound contract with Maersk Oil to deliver subsea support services. The contract includes a commissioning support campaign for the Flyndre…

Aker axes 600 more subsea jobs

Mar 14, 2016

Aker Solutions is reducing its Norwegian workforce by as many as 600 positions as the company takes necessary measures to strengthen the organization and boost competitiveness amid a continued market slowdown. Image from Aker…

OneSubsea bags BP West Nile Delta subsea gig

Mar 14, 2016

OneSubsea was awarded a contract from BP Exploration (Delta) and partner DEA (Deutsche Erdoel AG), to supply subsea production systems for the West Nile Delta Giza/Fayoum and Raven fields, situated offshore Egypt. The scope of supply…

Eni's clean sea sets out of Mediterranean

Mar 14, 2016

Eni's Clean Sea subsea robotic technology is to be used for the first time for marine environmental monitoring and offshore asset inspection offshore the Mediterranean and West Africa. Clean Sea is a type of hybrid AUV focusing on environmental…

VIDEO: Goliat finally achieves first oil

Mar 14, 2016

Production has finally started from Norway’s first Arctic oil field, at the Goliat floating production facility in the Barents Sea.  The 180 MMbo field, the first producing oil field in the Barents Sea and the northernmost producing oilfield…

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