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IKM, Nexans ink ROV agreement

Feb 22, 2016

Nexans Norway and IKM Subsea have come to an agreement to extend the current ROV services contracts on board the C/S Nexans Skagerrak.  The contract value including options is NOK 75 million and duration term is firm for three years plus two yearly options…

Woodside signs Wood Group for Western Flank

Feb 22, 2016

UK-based engineering firm Wood Group has won a contract with Australia's Woodside to provide the detailed design of the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) flowline system. The GWF-2 project is on the North West Shelf, offshore Western Australia…

A new marine model required?

Feb 22, 2016

The protracted low price environment is pushing the offshore marine supply chain to breaking point. Rig managers, offshore support vessel (OSV) contractors and subsea vessel owners are trading at 60-70% discounts to 2013 highs and every week seems to usher in a new wave of profit warnings…

McDermott picks JDR for umbilicals

Feb 22, 2016

UK-based subsea power cable and umbilicals manufacturer JDR has been awarded two umbilical contracts by McDermott for two projects in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.    The first project includes three umbilicals with a total combined length of 9km…

C-Kore delivers tools to SEAR JIP

Feb 18, 2016

UK based C-Kore Systems delivered its subsea monitoring units to PTTEP Australasia for use on the Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability (SEAR) JIP. The SEAR JIP was formed to meet the challenging subsea conditions faced in Australian waters…

Seacon releases enhances Ruffnek MUX series

Feb 16, 2016

Seacon released its newly designed A259 Ruffnek MUX series as an enhancement to the 7991 Ruffnek MUX series used on subsea BOP systems. Three key changes to the connector design include: Integrating a rubber molded face onto the…

Petrobras starts up Cidade de Maricá, Route 2

Feb 16, 2016

Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has started production from the Cidade de Maricá floating production storage offloading unit (FPSO), in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, in addition to the expansion of the country’s longest subsea natural gas pipeline…

Eidesvik inks Technip, Faroe work

Feb 16, 2016

Eidesvik Offshore entered into a new contract extension with Technip for the Viking Neptune subsea support vessel that is scheduled to begin in early April. The supply ship Viking Prince has also been awarded a contract with Faroe Petroleum for a well starting in mid May 2016…

Aker, Total sign technology collaboration deal

Feb 16, 2016

Aker Solutions and Total agreed to collaborate on research and innovation to develop new cost-effective subsea field technology. The initial four-year technical collaboration agreement will build on earlier cooperation and bring both…

TE unveils subsea CiA LVDT position transmitter

Feb 15, 2016

TE Connectivity (TE) announced a new Macro Sensors SSBR-937 Series CANBus LVDT Position Sensor with a  CANopen interface compliant to CiA 443 for subsea instruments. The subsea CiA 443 LVDT position sensor…

Forsys inks Trestakk tieback

Feb 15, 2016

Forsys Subsea, the joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, has been awarded a contract from Statoil to provide a subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for subsea tie-back of Trestakk to Åsgard A floating production…

Aker dips 16.5%, to make MMO pay cuts

Feb 12, 2016

Aker Solutions saw a 16.5% drop in its revenue in Q4 2015 as the market activity declined, especially in the North Sea, that will result in the company to slow down activity, reduce costs, and streamline its maintenance, modifications, and operations (MMO)…

Halliburton adds to Dash system range

Feb 11, 2016

Halliburton has released the Dash 3in subsea safety system, a solution for electrohydraulic control of Halliburton’s subsea safety tree. Previously, control was provided through direct hydraulic pressure from the surface. This latest edition…

Subsea 7, NOV ink Sea Lion FEED contracts

Feb 11, 2016

Premier Oil has issued key front end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the subsea work on its Falklands Islands Sea Lion development.  The subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines transport and installation to Subsea 7. A FEED…

Deep Gulf Energy picks Technip for deepwater project

Feb 09, 2016

Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Deep Gulf Energy III for the development of the deepwater Southe Santa Cruz and Barataria fields, in 200m water depth in the Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. The contract consists of: Project management and engineering services…

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