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EMGS obtains data licensing agreements

Jul 01, 2015

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) entered into two new data licensing agreements for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS' multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The agreements are worth a total of US$2 million. The multi-client revenues will be booked in the 2Q 2015…

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…

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…

A soft touch for heavy lifting

Jul 01, 2015

Three firms have joined forces to lighten the load of offshore heavy lifting game. Elaine Maslin found out more. DeepTek drum winch, with 150m  test length of LankoDeep AHC rope, installed on Jebsen and Jessen 110-tonne knuckle boom crane…

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…

Wild Well to offer new training program

Jun 29, 2015

Wild Well Control announced the start-up of a new well control training certification program that will offer a selection of action-oriented well control training curricula, which includes both team and individual well control simulator exercises…

Altas secures Dolphin contract

Jun 29, 2015

Dolphin Drilling selected learning technologies provider Atlas Knowledge to deliver a new system to manage the competence and training of its workforce in the UK. The contract will employ Atlas to oversee the installation and development…

Raytheon Anschütz wins COSCO contract

Jun 26, 2015

German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz announced new contracts for the delivery of Synapsis Integrated Navigation Systems (INS) to five 14,500TEU container vessels built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co.. The new…

Elastec offers offshore oil spill recovery system

Jun 25, 2015

Elastec introduced a new product for offshore and nearshore oil spill cleanup. The X150 Skimmer Launching System is an oil spill response system with the capability to recover light, medium and some heavy oils in incidents. Elastec’s…

Umbilicals International invests in cables

Jun 25, 2015

Umbilicals International (UI), part of the Seanamic Group, has invested over US$2 million in new cable manufacturing lines at its Houston production facility. The two lines will streamline cable production, and marks a significant expansion…

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…

Hydro Group gets new hydrostatic pressure vessel

Jun 25, 2015

Subsea cable and connector specialist Hydro Group has further strengthened its portfolio with the addition of a new state-of-the-art hydrostatic pressure vessel, following a US$393,000 (£250,000) investment.  The 2.5m by 1.5m vessel…

Fugro assists Alvheim project

Jun 24, 2015

Fugro is providing wave measurements to support construction operations at an improved oil recovery (IOR) project on the Norwegian continental shelf, around 225km west of Stavanger. The subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field…

Optimus Seventh Generation secures decommissioning contract

Jun 23, 2015

Optimus Seventh Generation, an Aberdeen-headquartered behavioral change consultancy, has strengthened its safety portfolio by securing its first decommissioning contract in a six-figure agreement with a major North Sea operator. The four-month contract…

Relatchable BSC for Gina Krog FPSO

Jun 23, 2015

Subsea connector specialist First Subsea is supplying a relatchable bend stiffener connector to NOV Completion & Production Solutions for a flexible production riser for Statoil’s new Gina Krog, turret moored, floating storage and offloading vessel in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…

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