Oilfield services company, Expro, said it has expanded its subsea intervention capabilities, introducing two new well access solutions in addition to its subsea landing string system technologies. According to Expro, the Intervention Riser System (IRS) will safely establish and maintain well access
Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein has recently held the keel laying ceremony of the cable laying vessel Nexans Aurora. Keel laying marks the start of assembling the grand blocks of a newbuild vessel, destined for the installation of subsea cables by Nexans. The hull is being built at Crist, Poland, whil
A Hitachi ZX300LC-6 medium excavator is helping a Romanian supplier of high-quality aggregates to dredge materials for use in concrete production from the Argeş River, 30km west of the capital, Bucharest. The Zaxis-6 machine was delivered recently by Hitachi’s authorized local dealer, Utirom Invest
Subsea 7 has picked BMT and Sonardyne to deliver riser monitoring system (RMS) for the world’s largest spar platform, Aasta Hansteen. The Aasta Hansteen Spar platform is operated and owned by Equinor. Located 300 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) in water depth
Thermal enhanced oil recovery specialist, Cavitas Energy, is the most recent innovative technology firm to receive funding support from technology accelerator, the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC). Cavitas has been awarded funding which will be dedicated to the fast-track development of their 3r
Searcher has launched Saismic, a transformative cloud-based service that provides global seismic data on-demand with native support for deep learning and advanced analytics. Saismic offers industry a smarter way to interact with seismic data on the premise that it should be adaptive, flexible and co
Interventek Subsea Engineering has secured funding from the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) towards the development of the control system for a new subsea in-riser landing string, designed to reduce the size, weight, complexity and cost of this critical well intervention equipment for oil and g
The UK government is backing industry plans for a multi-million pound underwater engineering hub in Aberdeen.
The UK government is backing industry plans for a multi-million pound underwater engineering hub in Aberdeen. Bringing together underwater technologies from both industry and academia from up and down the country, the planned Global Underwater Engineering Hub should reinforce the UK’s status in the
TUV SUD NEL, the flow measurement R&D specialist, has launched a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to fill a knowledge gap in the oil & gas industry’s use of online oil-in-water analysers to help optimise oil and gas recovery. In its quest to optimise production and recovery, the oil & gas industry is in
Ocean Scientific International (OSIL) has supplied a data buoy platform to the ‘ORION’ joint research and development centre for use as a real-time monitoring station on an EU-funded project managing coastal erosion. The Harmonized Coastal Corrosion Management Framework for Enhancing the Implementat
Oceaneering International has secured a drilling and completion support contract for integrated services with Wintershall Norge. The contract covers ROV services for the drilling unit West Mira, which will perform production drilling on Wintershall-operated fields in the Norwegian Continental Shelf,
Engineering and construction specialist Subsea 7 has seen recognised loss in the quarter ended March 31, 2019 on activity drop in renewables and heavy lift business units, forex expenses and tax charge against prior-year comparable period. The Oslo-listed firm posted quarterly loss of $19 million, o
DredgePumps designs, engineers and constructs dredgers worldwide. This Dutch based company specializes in stationary electrically powered deep suction dredgers, cutter suction dredgers and booster stations for applications such as mining, dredging of reservoirs as well as maintenance of small ports.
