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Technip, Sonangol, support Total offshore Angola

Mar 10, 2016

Technip's joint venture with Sonangol, Technip Angola Engenharia Limitada, has been awarded a three year engineering services contract by Total E&P Angola. The contract covers services for the existing Girassol, Pazflor, Dalia and CLOV…

DNV GL, majors in subsea standardization JIP

Mar 09, 2016

A joint industry project (JIP) to standardize subsea processing systems has been kick-started by DNV GL with industry partners Petrobras, Shell, Statoil and Woodside. Subsea development projects have been under substantial pressure due to cost inflation and the low oil price…

DW: deepwater spend forecast drops 35%

Mar 08, 2016

Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecasts deepwater expenditure to total US$137 billion from 2016-2020. This represents a 35% decline compared to DW’s previous edition of the deepwater forecast issued March 2015. The prolonged low oil price has impacted the deepwater market…

Exceed gets Fairfield P&A support contract

Mar 08, 2016

Exceed has secured a contract to support Fairfield Energy in its forthcoming North Sea well plugging and abandonment campaign. Fairfield’s program includes 45 platform wells and 16 subsea wells, all of which will be plugged and permanently abandoned…

Boskalis bags Abu Dhabi pipeline gig

Mar 08, 2016

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded a contract from the National Petroleum Construction Co. of Abu Dhabi, UAE for dredging work related to the installation of an offshore gas pipeline of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. as well as to an existing offshore gas pipeline…

Statoil signs up Oceaneering ROVs

Mar 07, 2016

Oceaneering International has been awarded an eight-year contract by Statoil. The agreement is to provide two work class electric remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for Statoil’s CAT-J Platforms in the North Sea. The new ROVs are currently being built in-house and called the eNovus…

Pulse expands INTEGRIpod platform

Mar 07, 2016

Pulse Structural Monitoring, an Acteon company, has launched INTEGRIpod NXT, the third generation of INTEGRIpod subsea motion and data logging sensor systems.  INTEGRIpod NXT, a new addition to the INTEGRI range of structural monitoring sensor systems…

Petrofac awards HFG platform fabrication contract

Mar 04, 2016

Petrofac has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) an AFC contract to fabricate the substation platform for Galloper Wind Farm (GWFL). Heerema Hartlepool is fabricating the unmanned offshore substation platform. Project engineering…

Geoquip Marine releases new rig

Mar 04, 2016

Geoquip Marine, a geotechnical engineering and offshore drilling company, will unveil its new GMTR150 rig at Oceanology International in London. The GMTR150 is a twin ram drilling rig that can be used for drilling, coring, sampling and testing in water depths up to 3500m…

ICoTA appoints European chair

Mar 04, 2016

Elliot Kinch, business development manager for Interwell UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association's European chapter (ICoTA). Kinch, who takes up his appointment March 2016, has served on the organization’s committee for two years…

Subsea 7 installs SeeByte's CoPilot

Mar 04, 2016

Unmanned marine systems software firm SeeByte's CoPilot system has been integrated into the workclass ROVs on Subsea 7's Normand Oceanic.  CoPilot is an advanced, plug-and play software that makes piloting any ROV a much simpler task…

Trendsetter completes Gunflint subsea delivery

Mar 02, 2016

Trendsetter Engineering has completed delivery of the subsea equipment for Noble Energy’s Gunflint project. Trendsetter’s scope consisted of five subsea pipeline end termination (PLET) and inline sled (ILS) structures, three jumper kits…

Trelleborg gets Shah Deniz order

Mar 02, 2016

Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded an order for thermal insulation and corrosion coating services for phase II of the BP Project, Shah Deniz, contracting directly to Azeri firm BOS Shelf. The contract is expected to begin in 2015 and run until approximately 2022…

BP extends Subsea 7 IRM job

Mar 02, 2016

Subsea 7 has won a contract extension from BP for subsea construction, inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services in the North Sea. Under the agreement, Subsea 7 will provide BP with an additional two years of IRM delivery, extending the contract to 2019…

ONE funding for UK Oil and Gas Technology Centre

Mar 01, 2016

Opportunity North East (ONE) is working with oil and gas industry leaders to establish Aberdeen as a global center for offshore technology research and development. The funding announced by the UK and Scottish governments through the…

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