Jerry Lee looks into Arctic-rated safety equipment that seeks to make it eaiser to comply with regulations around the globe. Arctic capping stack with remote BOP control and intervention subsea accumulator module…
Norway's Statoil says the world’s first subsea gas compression system has now been in successful operation for one year on the Åsgard field, helping increase production by some 16 MMboe. The firm says the system, installed on the field in the Norwegian Sea…
Scottish back deck machinery firm Maritime Developments (MDL) has introduced a new 110-tonne, four-track pipelay tensioner to its MDL Offshore Service business. MDL says it's the only system of its capacity readily available to take on projects worldwide…
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have teamed up to develop the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS), designed to enable pumping of up to 200 bbl per minute of kill mud through a single relief well utilizing multiple vessels as opposed to the conventional method of multiple relief wells…
Total E&P Congo, through Petro Services, awarded Farstad Shipping an 18-month contract for the subsea/construction support vessel Far Sleipner to support their subsea development activity in Congo. The contract will begin during Q4 2016.…
Teledyne RD Instruments (TRDI) has received an order for an additional 10 Explorer Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) to provide precision navigation and current profiling capability on board OceanServer Technology’s Iver3-580 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)…
A two-week mission involving 10 marine robots has commenced off northwest Scotland. The third in a series of demonstrator missions, this latest phase sees the largest fleet of marine robotic vehicles simultaneously deployed in UK waters…
Germany's NKT Cables is acquiring ABB’s global high-voltage cable system business with a total enterprise value of US$934 million. The business is part of ABB’s Power Grids division, which is currently undergoing a strategic review. The sale includes ABB's new cable laying vessel…
FMC Technologies has installed and tested its annulus monitoring system (AMS) in an offshore well in Malaysia owned by Petronas. A winner of the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference Spotlight on New Technology award, FMC Technologies’…
A development by Fugro for its work class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) has been utilized successfully in cable lay touchdown monitoring operations at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. Fugro Symphony…
Norwegian oil service firm Akastor has agreed to form a joint venture with Mitsui and its subsidiary AKOFS Offshore. The joint venture has already agreed to acquire the Skandi Santos hull from DOF Subsea Rederi and the Skandi Santos topside from AKOFS…
Osbit delivered two bespoke subsystems for a Modus autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The AUV systems designed and manufactured by Osbit during testing at the Port of Blyth. Image from Osbit…
Aquaterra Energy and Plexus Holdings have developed a light weight, dual barrier high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) riser system which can be deployed by a jackup as an alternative to semisubmersible installation for HPHT well operations…
Maersk Oil UK has awarded fellow company Maersk Supply Service to provide decommissioning services for the Janice field in the North Sea. Janice A FPU. Images from Maersk Oil. Maersk Supply Service (MSS) will provide engineering…
Shell has awarded the duo of Sulzer and FMC Technologies a subsea multiphase boosting pump contract to upgrade one of the pumping modules in the supermajor’s Parque das Conchas, a deepwater oil field off the coast of Brazil. Image from Sulzer…
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