Equipment
STATS Group Invests in New Equipment and Facilities
STATS Group has invested more than £3 million in developing a range of hot tapping machines, expanding their fleet of pipeline intervention service equipment, and opening a new 15,000 sq ft workshop and office facility. The SureTap range of hot tapping machines have been designed and built at the co
Unique Group Delivers Dive System to Asian Client
Unique Group’s Diving & Life Support division has delivered a Zone 2 rated classed surface nitrox dive system to FSDS Diving Services, the Asian based subsea service provider. The system comprises an 1800 decompression chamber, a dive control and client area, a machinery and a gas storage space, eac
VIDEO: NOV Subsea Oil Storage System
The animation shows a subsea storage unit (SSU) solution, patented by National Oilwell Varco, which enables storage of crude oil, chemicals and produced water on the subsea floor. The SSU is a gravity based storage unit that employs the new concept of a flexible bag protected by a dome. According to
Italian Maritime Robotics Expert Scoops DNV GL COMPIT Award
Marco Bibuli was announced as the winner of the DNV GL COMPIT Award 2017, which took place in Cardiff this year. This is the tenth time that a scientist has been presented with the DNV GL COMPIT Award at this conference. The Italian maritime robotics expert, working at the Italian research centre CN
ACE Winches Supplies Equipment for DolWin Installation Project
ACE Winches mobilized and installed a winch package for use on the jacket installation and float-over of the DolWin topside platform. The DolWin HVDC converter platform is located in the German Bight of the North Sea. It measures 100 meters in length, 70 meters in width, stands 90 meters and weighs
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (May 15– May 21). Eni has started gas production from the Jangkrik Development Project, offshore Indonesia. Production from ten deepwater subsea wells, connected to the newly built Floating Production
Rolls-Royce to Supply Hybrid Subsea Crane for CBO Manoella
Rolls-Royce has secured a contract by the Brazilian ship owning company CBO to equip an existing offshore platform supply vessel (PSV) with a new patented dual draglink (DDC) subsea crane. This will be the first installation of a subsea crane designed to be able to use either fibre or steel wire rop
Plexus Nets Aker BP Order
Plexus Holdings has received an initial purchase order from Aker BP for the supply of surface exploration wellhead equipment for the Hyrokkin and Nordfjellet standard pressure exploration wells, offshore Norway. The initial value of of the contract is estimated at circa £0.7 million with revenues ex
Rolls-Royce to fit first hybrid subsea crane on CBO vessel
Rolls-Royce has been chosen by Brazilian ship owning company CBO to equip an existing offshore platform supply vessel (PSV) with a new patented dual draglink (DDC) subsea crane. Namely, this will be the first installation of a subsea crane designed to be able to use either fiber or steel wire rope.
Wild Well Enhances Subsea Capping Capabilities
Wild Well Control has purchased subsea capping equipment from Shell EP Wells Equipment Services. The addition of this inventory enhances Wild Well’s current global equipment and response capabilities for the WellCONTAINED subsea containment systems, the company said. The newly purchased equipment wi
Aker BP orders wellhead equipment from Plexus
Plexus Holdings, an oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the POS-GRIP friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, has received an initial purchase order from Aker BP. Plexus said on Friday that the purchase order is for the supply of surface exploration wellhead equipment for the
Wild Well expands with subsea equipment buy
Wild Well Control, a well control and engineering services company, has purchased subsea capping equipment from Shell EP Wells Equipment Services B.V. Wild Well said on Thursday that the addition of this inventory enhances its current global equipment and response capabilities for the WellCONTAINED
Australia’s DST Bolsters Underwater Research with TAPS
The Australian Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group has recently acquired a new towed acoustic projector system (TAPS) that should improve how the organisation conducts its underwater acoustic research. DST has been using it’s 10 tonne sonar research projector system (SRP) to conduct experimen
SEAX-1 Subsea Link On Course for Q1 2018
Huawei Marine and Super Sea Cable Networks (SEAX) said that offshore and inshore marine surveys covering the full route of its SEAX-1 submarine cable system between the Eastern seaboard of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have been completed. Huawei Marine has started manufacturing of th