Equipment
Savanna to build four drilling rigs for Qld LNG project
Savanna Energy Services said it has signed a contract to expand its drilling operations in Australia. Savanna will deploy four Top Drive Single (TDS) drilling rigs to operate in Queensland for an existing customer to support their east coast LNG project, it said in a statement. The new design TDS 20
Expro to Exhibit ‘PowerChokes’ at ATCE Amsterdam
Oilfield services company, Expro, is set to showcase its latest PowerChokes® technology at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 27-29, 2014. Expro’s new Automatic Back Pressure (ABP) System uses their field-proven technology and softwa
VideoRay in OAT for McDermott’s LV-108
A VideoRay Pro 4 Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) has supported the Offshore Acceptance Testing (OAT) for two cranes on McDermott’s newest vessel, the Lay Vessel 108 (LV-108). The LV-108 is a pipe lay vessel, measuring 434 ft long and 89 ft wide. The LV-108 currently undergoing fitting and test of tw
Alcatel-Lucent buys 4D PRM specialist Optoplan
Alcatel-Lucent’s subsidiary, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), has signed a binding agreement with Sercel, part of the CGG Group, for the acquisition of Optoplan, a provider of 4D permanent reservoir monitoring solutions used in offshore oil and gas production. The closing of the transaction
PT-1 Jet Trencher in Action VIDEO
Statoil Snorre Permanent Reservoir Monitoring system installation and burial. Here you see what DeepOcean is working on in Norway right now, the PT-1 Jet Trencher on the Northern Wave vessel is shown cutting a very good profile trench for embedment of the cables. The PRM cable in yellow is visible a
Helix Energy expects lower 4Q earnings
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. reported net income of $75.6 million, for the third quarter of 2014 compared to net income of $44.6 million, for the same period in 2013. Owen Kratz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Helix, stated, “We executed at a high level in the third quarter for both
Statoil Finds More Oil in Grane Area
Statoil has together with PL169 partners proved new oil resources in the D-structure in the vicinity of the Grane field in the North Sea. Well 25/8-18 S, drilled by the rig Transocean Leader, proved an oil column of 25 meters in the Heimdal Formation. The estimated volume of the discovery is in the
PSA probes ConocoPhillips’ Ekofisk ops
Assisted by the Civil Aviation Authority Norway, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of helideck and helicopter operations at three facilities in the Ekofisk area, in the North Sea. From 15 to 18 September 2014, the PSA, with assistance from the Civil Aviation Authority Nor
Summit Broadband Connects to Allied Fiber
Allied Fiber, the United States’ first open-access, integrated, network-neutral colocation and dark fiber superstructure, has announced that Summit Broadband, a regional service provider headquartered in Orlando, Florida, a subsidiary of Cable Bahamas, has executed a 20-year Indefeasible Right of Us
OPT to Set Up PB40 PowerBuoy Off New Jersey
Ocean Power Technologies has announced today that the PB40 PowerBuoy® fabricated for the WavePort Project has shipped from Santander, Spain to Bayonne, NJ with the intent to deploy off the coast of New Jersey in the first quarter of 2015. The PowerBuoy is expected to arrive around mid-November and h
The Underwater Centre Tasmania Brings in New Diver Trainer
The Underwater Centre, Tasmania, has appointed a new diver trainer to support the increasing demand for its commercial diving courses. David Loudon joins the Centre from Gilbert Diving PTY, where he spent the last three years as a diver and workshop manager. Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (AD
FORCE Installs Two Power Cables in Minas Passage
The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has started to install up to four underwater power cables in the world’s highest tides. These cables will allow tidal turbines in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy to deliver power to Nova Scotia’s electricity grid. The FORCE team successfully install
RSI Bags Seismic Reservoir Characterization Gig
RSI has been chosen to provide rock-physics driven inversion and interpretation services to a Latin-American NOC over one of their northern Caribbean offshore assets. The contract has a value in excess of $2 million. The work will commence immediately and will complete in the first half of 2015. Gar
RSI hired for seismic reservoir characterization
Rock Solid Images (RSI) has been chosen to provide rock-physics driven inversion and interpretation services to a Latin-American NOC over one of their northern Caribbean offshore assets. The company says the contract has a value in excess of $2 million. The work will start immediately and will compl