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WGI expands Malaysia team

Mar 22, 2016

Asset integrity specialist Wood Group Intetech (WGI) is growing its team with new technical staff in Malaysia in response to heightened demand for its services, the company said.   Though known for its software solutions, the demand for WGI’s materials selection…

Bourbon Arctic delivered, completes first operation

Mar 21, 2016

Bourbon has taken delivery of the Bourbon Arctic from the Vard Brattvåg shipyard (Norway) and completed her first anchor handling operation. The vessel was engaged in the disconnection and unmooring operation of the Island Innovator located at the Fosen field in the central North Sea…

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…

XACT deploys network in BP GoM well

Mar 15, 2016

XACT Downhole Telemetry deployed six deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) deployments that provided real-time downhole data during a deepwater completion installation with BP. BP successfully accessed real-time downhole data throughout the well’s completion…

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…

OTC picks 2016 Spotlight winners

Mar 11, 2016

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which takes place 2–5 May 2016 in Houston, announces that 13 technologies will receive the 2016 Spotlight on New Technology Award. The awards will be presented at 1600 hours, 2 May, in the NRG Center Rotunda Lobby…

Outsmarting corrosion

Mar 10, 2016

Detecting corrosion is a huge headache for the offshore industry. CMR is developing a tool to spot it before it takes hold. Thomas Peter Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) in…

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…

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…

Cyberhawk completes Newfoundland inspection

Mar 03, 2016

Cyberhawk Innovations completed an offshore remotely operated aerial vehicles (ROAV) inspection offshore Newfoundland, Canada, for an oil and gas operator. The multiple workscope project was completed over the course of two weeks. Cyberhawk used ROAVs to inspect the live flare…

DNV GL appoints energy CEO

Mar 03, 2016

DNV GL has appointed Ditlev Engel as the new CEO of its energy business area. Starting 4 April, Engel will succeed acting CEO Elisabeth Harstad and report to the group president and CEO Remi Eriksen. Engel will be based at the DNV GL - Energy headquarters in Arnhem…

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…

Asset Guardian selected for Total UK

Mar 02, 2016

Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd. (AGSL), which specializes in protecting companies’ process control software assets, announced that Total has selected its software management platform Asset Guardian.  The software will help to secure the integrity…

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