Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 23 – September 29). https://subseaworldnews.com/2019/09/23/alcatel-submarine-networks-buys-vessel-from-sealion-shipping/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2019/09/25/deepocean-delivers-its-first-f
Offshore vessel operator Bourbon has launched a rescue operation for its Bourbon Rhode tug supply vessel in the Atlantic Ocean which has found itself in adverse weather conditions near the eye of the category 4 hurricane Lorenzo.
Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Italian oil company Eni, is under investigation for a potential conflict of interest with regards to contracts awarded by Eni Congo S.A. to Petroservice. Descalzi firmly rejects the allegation.
Japanese JOGMEC and Mozambique’s petroleum institute INP and oil company ENH have signed an official document for the enhancement of oil and gas human resources development in Mozambique.
Royal IHC has reached agreements with several key customers in Africa and Asia to supply IHC Beaver cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) and an IHC Easydredge trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) with an approximate total value of €100 million. Both vessel types are products within IHC’s highly successf
French oil major Total has awarded contracts to Norwegian shipping company Solstad Farstad for two large anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels.
Van Oord is deepening and widening the access channel and turning basin of a large ore export facility in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. Two trailing suction hopper dredgers, one of which is owned by Van Oord, will be deployed for the dredging work. According to the company, Von Oord’s flagship HAM 318 is
Tracerco, part of Johnson Matthey, has secured seven subsea inspection projects to provide critical flow assurance and asset integrity data on a variety of pipelines, flowlines and risers in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and offshore West Africa. Through the use of Discovery, Tracerco’s subsea
Dallas-based Kosmos Energy has confirmed a ‘world-scale gas resource’ offshore Senegal following the drilling of the Yakaar-2 appraisal well.
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), an initiative to tackle climate change and backed by 13 oil companies, has launched a new initiative to unlock large-scale investment in carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS).
Welaptega has completed mooring inspection campaign for BP offshore Angola using its optical chain measurement system (CMS), complete with new automated edge tracking software. The project saw Welaptega use its new edge tracking data system and its patented CMS technology to inspect the mooring syst
Oil major BP has confirmed a ‘world-scale gas resource’ offshore Senegal after drilling the Yakaar-2 appraisal well, using the Valaris DS-12 drillship.
