FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Statoil for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Pan Pandora field. The award has a value of approximately $70 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. Pan Pandora is an offshore oil and ga
AGR Goup wholly owned subsidiary, AGR Drilling Services Pty Ltd (“AGR DS”), has today signed a contract with Van Oord Australia Pty Ltd (“Van Oord”) whereby AGR DS will provide excavation services to the Gorgon Project. Under the contract AGR DS will provide UK sister company AGR Subsea Ltd’s well-p
CARIS is pleased to announce the release of Bathy DataBASE 3.0. [mappress] Source: CARIS, June 21, 2010
Aker Solutions has been awarded another subsea equipment contract by leading US independent oil and gas company Noble Energy Inc. This time Aker Solutions will deliver subsea control equipment worth approximately NOK 150 million. Scope of work is engineering, manufacturing and delivery of a subsea c
Showa Denko Aluminum Trading K.K. (SDAT), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko K.K. (SDK), has launched a new type of evaporator for liquefied natural gas (LNG) through heat exchange with the atmosphere, enabling long hours of continuous operation. The device, consisting of aluminum-fin tubes, i
Cianbro crews are preparing for a job that will be visible to thousands of Mainers who look out to sea in the Rockland area. On or about June 17th, the 750 foot drilling vessel Stena Forth will appear on the horizon, approximately a mile and a half off the Rockland breakwater. For about one week, [&
Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) has been successful in securing repeat business from Van Oord, Holland one of the biggest Dredger operators… [mappress] Source: Colombo Dockyard, June 17, 2010
Seatronics has invested £1 million in Sonardyne’s new 6G (Sixth Generation) range of acoustic and inertial navigation products and becomes the first subsea electronics rental company able to offer customers this leading-edge technology. The launch of 6G represents a major advance by Sonardyne in sub
VAALCO Energy, Inc. announced today the Southeast Etame No. 1 (“ETSEM-1”) exploration well completed drilling to a total depth of 9,045 feet (2,757 meters) offshore Gabon and encountered approximately sixteen feet (five meters) of Gamba sandstone section which logged oil full to base. The ETSEM-1 we
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has developed the world’s first field wireless devices based on the ISA100.11a*1 industrial wireless communications standard and will release them to the market in July. These wireless products include an EJX-B series differential pressure and pressure
CGGVeritas announces the launch of BroadSeis, a new integrated service for high-resolution marine seismic. BroadSeis is an innovative solution based on the deployment of specific configurations of Sentinel solid streamers combined with a new patented imaging technology designed to offer oil companie
The semisubmersible platform by Aker Solutions for the Gjøa oil and gas field offshore Norway, today started on its journey from the yard at Stord to the North Sea, where installation will take place. Production start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010. Gjøa features innovative solutions
The first of three offshore gas production platforms, known as ‘QW8’ for the Qatargas 3 and 4 ventures has been handed over to Qatargas … [mappress] Source: thepeninsulaqatar, June 14, 2010:
On June 11th, 2010, twenty three months after placing the order, the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Charles Darwin’ was launched at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao (Spain). The godmother of the ship was Charlotte Putz-De Nul, daughter of Mrs Ghislaine De Nul, sister of Jan
